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Sanhedolin – Manjoicchi Wa Muko
The trio of Keiji Haino on guitar, vocals and flute; Mitsuru Natsuno on bass and Tatsuya Yoshida on drums. Review coming later. Label: PSF Catalog Number: PSFD-162 Format: CD Packaging: Jewel case Tracks:…
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Nijiumu – Live
This CD is part of a very sonically and visually attractive 4-CD box set from 1997 called Driftworks, which showcases the glacially-paced, environmental sound-spaces of Pauline Oliveros and Randy Raine-Reusch, Thomas Koner, Paul…
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Nijiumu – Era of Sad Wings
Nijiumu is a side project of Keiji Haino that sometimes involves other musicians. (Confusingly, it’s also the title of his is his first PSF solo disc, PSFD-7, which came out a decade after…
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Lost Aaraaff – Concert from the Genyasai Festival
This disc is part of a 4-CD box set from 1995 called The Sou’ls True Love that chronicles the first decade of Keiji Haino’s career: from Lost Aaraaff in 1971 on through solo…
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Lost Aaraaff
Back we go to the very beginning of Keiji Haino’s “professional” career: 1971 and his first group, Lost Aaraaff. This free jazz-inspired ensemble scarved out a vicious splash of crazed piano, slop-o drumming…
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Knead – This Melting Happiness: I Want You To Realize It Is Another Trap
Here we see a rare return to the vinyl format for a certain Mr. Haino–not to mention his second commercially available outing with the Ruins. Like you might expect, this 12″ black saucer…
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Black Stage
This is a collection of very pleasant and listenable improvisations with Keiji Haino on vocals, six- and twelve-string electric guitars, flute and harp; Kido Natsuki on acoustic guitar and Katsui Yuji on five-string…
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Aihiyo – Live
This is release number two from Keiji Haino’s bar band. (The first self-titled one was released on a Japanese major label called Tokuma, catalog number TKCF 77022.) It features covers of The Ronettes,…
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Aihiyo – (First)
Aihiyo is a guitar, bass and drums trio fronted by Keiji Haino that played skewed versions of traditional Japanese pop songs back in the late 1990s. Along with the first Fushitsusha Live 2-CD…
