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Keiji Haino – Execration That Accept To Acknowledge
Japan’s premier “out” musician offers up a CD’s worth of solo, electric, improv guitar—efficiently moving Earthquake and volcanic activity-like sounds into the privacy of your own home with only a fraction of the…
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Keiji Haino – Milky Way
This is an archival recording of a live performance from 1973 issued for the first time two decades later in 1993. It features one track and 47 continuous minutes of Haino all by…
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Keiji Haino – Affection
This long, one-track affair starts out with some barely audible, poppy, “shopping mall” music, which is quickly cut out by mysterious reverb interjections. A simple, melodic, solo guitar-picking section follows, then some strumming…
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Keiji Haino – Nijiumu
Nijiumu is a side project of Keiji Haino, which sometimes involves other musicians. Confusingly, it’s also the title of his is his first solo disc since Watashi Dake? in 1981 and an early…
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Mikami Kan, Moto Yoshizawa, Haino Keiji – Live in the First Year of Hesei
These two volumes by three of Japan’s underground master musicians were among the first releases on Tokyo’s awesome PSF label a decade ago—just before Haino-mania swept the dimly-lit English-speaking world. The music filling…
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Fushitsusha – 1978
This is an archival recording dating from 1978 that, fortunately, finally received a public service release 25 years later in 2003. While it’s nowhere near as dense as classic Fushitsusha of the ’90s,…
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Fushitsusha – Origin’s Hesitation
After seven years of releases on other labels, Fushitsusha finally comes home to roost in the PSF loft once again—and, aye, what a different bird they be. After the last drummer, Ikuro Takahashi,…
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Fushitsusha – I Saw It! That Which Before I Could Only Sense
At this point, what is left to say? With almost every release, Fushitsusha further refine and perfect their absolutely one-of-a-kind music. Seemingly incapable of making a stale move, this new set finds the…
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Fushitsusha – The Wisdom Prepared
Just to throw you off, this one’s pretty much the opposite of its predecessor, A Little Longer Thus. Supremely loud, distorted and free-form guitar, bass and drum twine with no let-up all on…
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Fushitsusha – A Little Longer Thus
1998 sees Keiji Haino busting out with four more simultaneous CDs on Tokuma, including two Fushitsusha titles, another solo hurdy gurdy affair called Even Now, Still I Think and a debut disc from…
