This is Haino’s first release from our fine feathered friends to the North: the Canadians. It also happens to be his most “empty” effort so far—one lifelong, 68-minute track of mystery electronic drone.…

Sruthi Box is a rare three-inch CD given away by Japanese major label Tokuma at local record store chain Disk Union and PSF’s Modern Music shop to anyone who bought all four of…

On Drawing Close, Attuning, the father of guitar improvisation, Derek Bailey, lands in Haino World. He trades many plinks and plonks and juts and jolts with Haino as the two lurch forward and…

For his umpteenth solo CD, Haino offers up yet another guitar and voice affair—again all recorded live with no overdubs. This time, we’re on a major label, but that sure hasn’t affected Haino’s…

A set of duos for saxophone and vocals that sets the standard for improvisational chaos eruptions and all-acoustic shard exploration. Intricate voice / breath / horn interchanges that are sometimes thin as treacle,…

I have no idea who or what Gerry Miles was, is or will be—other than the title of this very pleasant-sounding collaboration between Keiji Haino on vocals and percussion accompanied by Alan Licht…

Haino’s second domestic CD features one 59-minute track containing much more placid phases of space-filling guitar and voice bliss with occasional sections of rising volume. Yet another slab of wonder to throw on…

Another British import containing two long tracks of solo guitar and voice that meld into universal sound expansion. When Keiji Haino says “I Love You,” he’s speaking to the universe as a whole—existence…

This is quite a revelation: a 4-CD box set from 1995 chronicling the first decade of Keiji Haino’s career: from Lost Aaraaff in 1971 on through solo home recordings and eventually to the…

The 73 minutes of space on this CD are all filled up with four long hurdy gurdy drones that effortlessly form absolutely beautiful, drifting, sunset clouds. Ranging from long, floaty tones that sparkle…