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Keiji Haino – To Start With, Let’s Remove the Color!
To start with, let’s regard the cover! It’s yet another in a long line of those purdy mini-LP gatefold jackets manufactured in the name of Keiji Haino by PSF. The surprising difference this…
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Keiji Haino – Percussion Solo
It’s been a long time—around a decade, actually—since PSF last offered a treat for our eyes as well as our ears. This here flick of a solo percussion show by Keiji Haino is…
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Keiji Haino + Tatsuya Yoshida – Until Water Grasps Flame
This disc is a recording of a live performance from April 2000. All 12 tracks are duets, but the instrumentation on each track varies, with Haino playing guitar, sarode, gyumbari, gothan, esraj and…
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Keiji Haino – Abandon All Words at a Stroke so That Prayer Can Come Spilling Out
Two full CDs worth of slowly-inching tectonic continental sound plates from Tokyo’s supreme sullen small one, Keiji Haino. The first five-inch tiddlywink in this set finds Haino teaming up with the hurdy gurdy…
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Keiji Haino and Derek Bailey – Songs
Released in 2000, this CD was recorded back in November 1996 at Moat Studios in London during the same sessions which begat some of the Tokuma releases of yore, if I’m not mistaken.…
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Keiji Haino and Coa – If a Billion Curses Already Exist, You Should Draw Out the Billion and First Prayer
This is a short and totally pleasing CD from the Japanese label Horen, broken up into seven songs of prime psychedelic slop rock wonder. Legendary hurt amp-coaxer Keiji Haino splatters out gobs of…
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Peter Brotzmann + Keiji Haino + Shoji Hano – Shadows
This CD contains nearly an hour’s worth of live performances recorded at the Schlachthof in Wels, Austria on March 31, 2000 during a Spring concert tour of Europe. Featuring Peter Brotzmann on clarinet…
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Keiji Haino + Shoji Hano – The Strange Face
The Strange Face is a continuation of sorts to Shoji Hano’s 1991 Tayhei Nippon percussion CD, two tracks of which Haino played guitar on. Well, here we are again a decade later, but…
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Purple Trap – Decided Already the Motionless Heart of Tranquility, Tangling the Prayer Called “I”
Well, here we go again with this “Purple Trap” business. Purple Trap first appeared as the title of a 2-CD set by Fushitsusha, then re-appeared as the name of the label that released…
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Keiji Haino + Jean Francois Pauvros – Y
This year 2000 CD from France fixes Keiji Haino up with French avant guitarist Jean Francois Pauvros, who, like Haino, has been working for three decades now, and percussionist Francois Causse. Why he…
