Kaii Abe Pinakotheca - PRT#3 - released 1982 cassette - 2 sides - 44 minutes 47 seconds Keiji Haino (guitar) + other unknown musicians  "Live in the first year of the Heisei, Volume One" PSF - PSF(D) 5 - released 1990 lp and compact disc - 5 tracks - 41 minutes 47 seconds First 500 lp copies included a bonus one-sided 7" (PSF-1001) with one extra track. Kan Mikami (voice, guitar) Keiji Haino (guitar) Motoharu Yoshizawa (bass)  painting: Rikutaro Mikami "Live in the first year of the Heisei" bonus 7" PSF - PSF 1001 - released 1990 7" single - 1 tracks - 3 minutes 24 seconds Kan Mikami (voice, guitar) Keiji Haino (guitar) Motoharu Yoshizawa (bass) Comments: This 1-sided 7-inch single was included as a bonus with the first 500 lp copies of PSF-5 (above).  "Live in the first year of the Heisei, Volume Two" PSF - PSF(D) 6 - released 1990 lp and compact disc - 6 tracks - 42 minutes Kan Mikami (voice, guitar) Keiji Haino (guitar) Motoharu Yoshizawa (bass)  painting: Rikutaro Mikami "Live at Lazyways, Koenji, Tokyo" ? - ? - released March, 1992 cassette - approximately 30 minutes per side Keiji Haino (guitar, voice) Toshi Ishizuka (percussion) This cassette was available with the Japanese magazine "Imperial Theater", volume 5. (See the interviews section of this site for further details.) Side 1 of this cassette include a performance from Lazyways, Koenji, Tokyo on June 29, 1991. Side 2 of this cassette includes more Japanese improvisation from members of These (without Haino).
[-- side B --]  "Hikari=Shi" (light=death) HG FACT- HG 009 - released 1994 seven inch record - 3 tracks - 3 minutes 58 seconds Maki Miura (guitar) Keiji Haino (guitar) Ogreish Organism (percussion)
[-- side B --]  "Two strings will do it" PSF - PSFD 45 - released 1994 compact disc - 4 tracks - 48 minutes 24 seconds Barre Phillips (acoustic bass) Keiji Haino (guitar) Sabu Toyozumi (percussion)  painting: Keiji Haino "Live at Downtown Music Gallery" Persona Non Grata - # 2 - recorded 1992, released 1995 compact disc - 1 tracks - 24 minutes 38 seconds Keiji Haino (guitar) Loren Mazzacane (guitar)  design: Byron Coley "Etchings in the air" PSF - PSFD 74 - released 1996 compact disc - 5 tracks - 46 minutes 30 seconds Barre Phillips (acoustic bass, voice) Keiji Haino (guitar, voice)  photo: Yabe Akiko untitled Maboroshi No Sekai - MABO 005 - released 1996 compact disc - 3 tracks - 55 minutes 36 seconds Keiji Haino (6 and 12 string guitar, flute, harp, voice) Natsuki Kido (acoustic guitar) Yuji Katsui (5-string electric violin)  painting: Sasaki Hideaki "Evolving Blush or Driving Original Sin" PSF - PSFD 79 - released July 25, 1996 compact disc - 11 tracks - 56 minutes 31 seconds Keiji Haino (voice) Peter Brötzmann (alto sax)  drawing: Keiji Haino "Gerry Miles" Atavistic - ALP71CD - released 1996 compact disc - 9 tracks - 40 minutes 46 seconds Lucy Hamilton (bass clarinet) MLW (piano, organ T. VI.) Alan Licht (organ) Keiji Haino (voice, percussion)  design: Weaver "Drawing Close, Attuning --The Respective Signs of Order and Chaos" Tokuma Japan Communications - TKCF 77017 - released April 21, 1997 compact disc - 7 tracks - 75 minutes 25 seconds Keiji Haino (guitar) Derek Bailey (guitar)  Drawing: Keiji Haino "Vol. 2" Menlo Park Recordings - 7005 - recorded 4.11.95, released August, 1997 lp and compact disc - 2 tracks - 27 minutes 50 seconds Keiji Haino (guitar) Loren MazzaCane Connors (guitar)  photo: uncredited "Incubation" PSF - PSFD 98 - released May 25, 1998 compact disc - 7 tracks - 32 minutes 17 seconds Asahito Nanjo (bass) Makoto Kawabata (guitar) Tatsuya Yoshida (drums) Keiji Haino (voice, guitar)  untitled Tokuma Japan Communications - TKCF 77022 - released June 24, 1998 compact disc - 9 tracks - 59 minutes 09 seconds studio album - recorded February - April 1998 Keiji Haino (guitar, voice) Ikuro Takahashi (drums) Masami Kawaguchi (bass)   photo: uncredited "Black: Implication Flooding" INOXIA Records - IXCD-0002 - release date: October, 1998 compact disc - 9 tracks - 72 minutes 40 seconds recorded Live at Koenji 20000V on August 31, 1997 Keiji Haino (electronic sruthi box(1,6), guitar (7,8,9), wave drum (5), ethnic oboe (6), vocal, marshall) Wata (guitar, echo, e-bow, orange, matamp) Ohtani (bass, vocal, ampeg) Atsuo (drums, vocal)  design: Fangs Anal Satan "An Unclear Trial: More Than This" Avant - AVAN 074 - release date: November, 1998 (U.S. Release January, 1999) compact disc - 5 tracks - 57 minutes 43 seconds studio album - recorded July, 1996 Keiji Haino (acoustic guitar, voice) Joey Baron (drums) Greg Cohen (bass)  photo: Arai Yasunori (Plug) Decided... Already The Motionless Heart Of Tranquility, Tangling The Prayer Called "I" Tzadik - TZ 7221 - March 18, 1999 double cd - 13 tracks - 62 minutes 47 seconds + 65 minutes 26 seconds studio recording - November 1998, NYC Keiji Haino (voice, guitar) Bill Laswell (bass) Rashid Ali (drums)
[ disc two ]  photo: uncredited Y Shambala -- SHAMB 99003 -- release date: January, 2000 compact disc - 8 tracks - 58 minutes 10 seconds live album - recorded March 1999 in France by J.M. Foussat Keiji Haino (guitar, voice) Jean-Francois Pauvros (gutiar) Francois Causse (percussion)  photo: uncredited "Ten no Ohkami" La Musica Records - tape 043 - released circa 1999 cassette Description from the La Musica website: Avant-garde unit formed by Asahito Nanjo in '90 to '91. Began Angelic from the British Temple of Psychic Youth, weird Georgian performer Drew Wilbur, 'ev and Keji Haino were among those who collobarated with the group live. Experimental meditation music that aims for a fusion of rock and esoteric religious music using a combination of signal generators, home-made instruments, organ and ethnic instruments. Haino performs on this cassette. (Note: There is some debate over whether this is an "official release" or a bootleg, owing to a dispute over ownership of the copyright.)
[ side two ]  photo: uncredited Second Album PSF -- PSFD-8006 -- release date: June 25th, 2000 compact disc - 9 tracks - 72 minutes 59 seconds Keiji Haino (guitar, voice) Ikuro Takahashi (drums) Masami Kawaguchi (bass)  photo: Kazuyuki Funaki The Strange Face Ultra Hard Gel Records -- GEL CD 01 -- released September 2000 compact disc - 7 tracks - 43 minutes 59 seconds recorded in Tokyo Aug-Sep 1999 Shoji Hano: drums, wadaiko & cymbals 2 & 6 Keiji Haino: guitar, vocal 2 & 6 engineer: Yasushi Ozawa  photo: Kazuyuki Funaki Shadow - Live in Wels, Austria DIW -- DIW-938 -- September 29, 2000 compact disc - 5 tracks - 56 minutes 23 seconds Keiji Haino (guitar, voice) Peter Brötzmann (tarogato, a-clarinet, tenor sax) Shoji Hano (bamboo horns, drums) This release is made up of live material from the trio's tour of The Netherlands, Germany, & Austria from March 25 to April 2, 2000. This particular recording is from March 31 at Schlachthof in Wels, Austria.  cover: uncredited Ichioku to ichibanme no inori o michibiki daseba ii A translation of the title: You should draw out the billion and first prayer Horen -- Horen/Mimi-010 -- release date: October 25, 2000 compact disc - 7 tracks - 44 minutes 30 seconds Coa is comprised of two Japanese women, who call themselves Eddie and Bill. Keiji Haino (guitar, voice, cretan bulgari) Eddie - (vocals, bass, keyboard) Bill - (vocals, drums) Live collaborative material from Mushroom, June, 1999  cover design: Satoru Higashiseto & Masahiko Ohno Songs Incus -- Incus CD 40 -- release date: December 1, 2000 compact disc - 16 tracks - 42 minutes 20 seconds Keiji Haino - voice Derek Bailey - guitar recorded November, 1996, England  cover painting: Keiji Haino Layout design: Karen Brookman Until Water Grasps Flame Noise Asia -- NAIM 12 CD -- release date: January, 2002 compact disc - 12 tracks - 64:12 minutes Keiji Haino (guitar, sarode, gyumbari, gothan, esraj, darbouka, voice) Tatsuya Yoshida (drums, Korg X5D, darbouka) recorded live at Penguin House April, 2000  Layout design: coming Haino photo: Funaki Kazuyuki Layout design: Tomonari Maeda 1st PSF -- PSFD-128 -- May 25, 2002 compact disc - 8 tracks - 75:46 minutes Knead is Keiji Haino and Ruins. Keiji Haino (guitar, vocals) Tatsuya Yoshida (drums, voice) Hisashi Sasaki (bass) Recorded on December 8th, 2001.  Layout design: uncredited Free Rock PSF -- PSFD-131 -- November 25, 2002 compact disc - 1 track - 34:50 minutes Live recording at Pasadena on August 8th, 1982 Dennis Duck (drums) Fredrik Nilsen (bass) Tom Recchion (home-made instruments: mock cello, strungaphone) Keiji Haino (guitar) Rick Potts (guitar) note: Doo Dooettes were a noise/experimental grouping that came out of the Los Angeles Free Music Society.  cover design: Tom Recchion This melting happiness - I want you to realize that it is another trap Fractal Records -- Fractal 023 -- July, 2003 lp only - 8 tracks - ??:?? minutes Knead is Keiji Haino and Ruins. Keiji Haino (guitar, vocals) Tatsuya Yoshida (drums, vocals) Hisashi Sasaki (bass) Recorded Live at Showboat, Tokyo, Koenji, August 10th, 2001. Limited vinyl edition, 220 gr. / 500 copies. Although the official credits on the LP jacket list Keiji Haino as the only vocalist, Tatsuya Yoshida does appear on vocals on several songs. For example, on side 2, track 1, he sings a duet with Keiji Haino.  Layout design: uncredited Live at Cafe Independants Friday 23. January. 2004 Cafe Independants Label - CIL-006 - recorded January 23, 2004, released June 22, 2004 compact disc - 8 tracks - 44 minutes 06 seconds Keiji Haino (guitar, vocals) Tatsuya Yoshida (drums) Mitsuru Natsuno (bass) Bus Ratch (turntables) This is a live recording of a concert at Cafe Independants in Kyoto, Japan. Bus Ratch are a 'noise turntable' duo from Kyoto. The sleeve says that Bus Ratch guest on tracks 9 & 10 - except the cd only has 8 tracks. Though track 7 certainly seems to have some extraneous noises on it, so maybe they mean tracks 7 & 8.  Layout design: Jiro Fukunishi Tayu tayu to tadayoitamae kono furue unofficial translation of title: Quiver a-shiver shiver, this trembling PSF - PSFD 8018 - recorded April 23, 2004, release date July 25, 2004 compact disc - 7 tracks - 48 minutes 37 seconds Keiji Haino (classic guitar: acoustic guitar with nylon strings) Michihiro Sato (tsugaru-jamisen)  cover photo: Yuji Itsumi title: Manjoicchi wa muko title translation: unanimity is invalid PSF - PSFD 162 - release date: August 10, 2005 compact disc - 10 tracks - 64 minutes 58 seconds This trio has been playing in Japan over the past couple years under the name Sanhedrin. Apparently, Haino didn't like the obvious Biblical association and has changed the name to Sun Head Ring. Then, apparently, he thought better of that and has again changed the name to Sanhedolin. Keiji Haino (guitar, vocals, flute) Tatsuya Yoshida (drums) Mitsuru Natsuno (bass)  cover design: unknown New Rap Tzadik - TZ-7262 - release date: March, 2006 1 compact discs - 9 tracks - 48 minutes 04 seconds Keiji Haino (voice, guitar) Tatsuya Yoshida (drums)  photograph: Scott Irvine cover design: Heung-Heung Chin Great Year Soundings - no catalog number - recorded August 28, 2004, release date: April, 2006 compact disc - 3 tracks - 70 minutes 02 seconds The Homeogryllus japonicus Orchestra performed on August 28, 2004 at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo. This show featured Keiji Haino and Mamoru Fujieda playing (separately) with crickets.  cover design: unknown Animamima aRCHIVE/Important Records - aRCHIVE22+23 & imprec099 - release date: May 26, 2006 2 compact discs - 2 tracks - 97 minutes 50 seconds Keiji Haino (voice, flute, electric tanbur, rhythm box, electric hurdy gurdy, electric sruthi-box) Yoshida Daikiti (sitaar) Sitaar Tah! (sitars x 20) Fuyuki Yamakawa (throat singing, igill) Live at Uplink Factory, Shibuya, Tokyo, June 26, 2004 Recording by Phil Snider. Mastered by James Plotkin.  cover design: Stephen O'Malley (SOMA) Mamono Blossoming Noise - BN-018CD - release date November 14, 2006 compact disc - 7 tracks - 67 minutes 50 seconds Keiji Haino (guitar, electronics, drums, vocals) KK Null (electronics, drums, vocals)  flowers: Bobbie Sunshine Vang Moore layout & design: Graham Moore "Cosmic Debris, Vol.III" Opax Records - OPX LP10 - release date: August 2007 art + lp - 2 tracks - 44 minutes 03 seconds Private edition of 100. Each record comes with an original acrylic painting by Roberto Opalio on 30x30cm proper canvas, with a unique Polaroid instant film installed on each piece, representing 100 different perspectives of a same subject related to My Cat Is An Alien's own cosmic imaginary. Side A recorded live November 22th, 2005 at Koenji Show Boat, Tokyo, Japan. Side B recorded live September 29th, 2006, at The Beach, Torino, Italy, on a bill shared with Keiji Haino. Both tracks mastered by My Cat Is An Alien in Torino, Italy. The release has been reissued on cd: A Silent Place - ASP28 - release date: December 2007 cd - 2 tracks - 44 minutes 03 seconds  cover design: Roberto Opalio Hauenfiomiume Magaibutsu Limited -- MGC-34 -- release date: March 25, 2008 compact disc - 16 tracks - 50 minutes 10 seconds Keiji Haino (electric guitar, classica guitar, flute, soprano laute, voice) Tatsuya Yoshida (drums, keyboards, bass, vocal) recorded, edit, mixed by Tatsuya Yoshida  design credit: Tatsuya Yoshida Pulverized Purple Les Disques Victo -- Victo cd 110 -- release date: April, 2008 compact disc - 5 tracks - 69 minutes 17 seconds Keiji Haino (guitar, voice, electronics) Masami Akita (electronics) recorded live at the 24th Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville on May 21, 2007  photo credit: Jenny Akita design credit: Francois Bienvenue Uhrfasudhasdd Tzadik -- TZ-7265 -- release date: May, 2008 compact disc - 16 tracks - 50 minutes 07 seconds Keiji Haino (Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Flute, Vocal) Tatsuya Yoshida (Drums, Keyboards, Bass, Vocal) recorded, edit, mixed by Tatsuya Yoshida  cover drawing: Keiji Haino design: Heung-Heung Chin Reverb Rhythm Tracks -- TRACKS-012 -- release date: November 6, 2008 compact disc - 15 tracks - 44 minutes 09 seconds Mitsuru Natsuno (bass, effects, programming, voice) Keiji Haino (guitar, flute, harmonica) Ishibashi Eiko (drums, piano, flute)  design: Kotama Tamako electronics zeitkratzer records -- records zkr006 -- release date: December 1, 2008 compact disc - 4 tracks - 56 minutes 56 seconds Keiji Haino < guitar, voice, electronics and drums (4) zeitkratzer directed by Reinhold Friedl Marcus Weiser < soprano Franz Hautzinger < conductor Frank Gratkowski < flute, clarinets Hayden Chisholm < flute < clarinets Reinhold Friedl < piano Maurice de Martin < percussion Burkhard Schlothauer < violin Anton Lukoszevieze < cello Uli Phillipp < doublebass Ralf Meinz < sound recorded live at Volksbuhne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, Germany November 11, 2005 and at Donaufestival Krems, Austria, April 21, 2006 Notes: This cd has two releases. The first is as an individually packaged cd, released on December 1, 2008. The cd is also released as part of a 3-cd box set that included a supplement with texts by Diedrich Diederichsen, Tony Herrington (Editor-in-Chief of The Wire Magazine London) and Stefan Fricke (Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt), which was apparently released in October, 2008. The cds in this set are  cover design: Andreas Eberlein [aromaberlin] title: Sun Head Ring Breathing Bass Records - BBCD-001 - release date: October 25, 2008 compact disc - 8 tracks - 68 minutes Recorded live at Earthdom, Shin-Okubo on March 3, 2007, and at Live Inn Rosa, Ikebukuro on June 9, 2007. This trio has been playing in Japan over the past couple years under the name Sanhedrin. Apparently, Haino didn't like the obvious Biblical association and has changed the name to Sun Head Ring. Then, apparently, he thought better of that and has again changed the name to Sanhedolin. For this release, the trio has returned to Sanhedrin. This cd was available during the Sanhedrin tour of Japan in summer, 2008. It was later made available for wider distribution. Keiji Haino (guitar, vocals, flute) Tatsuya Yoshida (drums) Mitsuru Natsuno (bass)  cover design: Oguri Hideto Ashita arufabetto ga, kiete shimaimasu yo ni unofficial translation - so that the alphabet may vanish, tomorrow Full Design Records - FDR-1011 - release date: February 11, 2009 compact disc - 8 tracks - 75 minutes 48 seconds Keiji Haino - vocal, guitar, kantele, shawm Masataka Fujikake - drums This is live material from their Yokohama shows in 2005.  cover design: unknown Iitsukusarerarenai arawarekata unofficial translation of title: A means of manifestation impossible to fully verbalize Full Design Records - FCDR-2008 - release date: March 5, 2009 compact disc - 1 tracks - 12 minutes 27 seconds Keiji Haino - guitar Masataka Fujikake - drums This is live material from their Yokohama shows in 2005. This promotional cdr was given away at the Haino/Fujikake/Daisuke Fuwa show on Thursday, March 5, 2009 at Seventh Floor, Shibuya, Tokyo.  design: unknown Shall I Download A Black Hole And Offer It To You Blast First Petite - PTYT 014 - release date: July, 13 2009 1 compact disc - 10 tracks -77 minutes 25 seconds Keiji Haino Pan Sonic This is live recording from 15th November 2007 concert at Berlin's Volksbuhne.  cover design: unknown Tima Formosa Black Truffle - BT 04 - release date: April 5, 2010 1 compact disc - ? tracks -?? minutes ?? seconds Oren Ambarchi - Electric Guitar Jim O'Rourke - Piano Keiji Haino - Voice + Flute, Electronics and Percussion on Track 3 This is live recording from the January 8, 2009 concert at the Playhouse, Kitakyushu Performing Arts Center, Japan. Concert produced by Akiko Miyake, CCA Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu. A Black Truffle / CCA co-release. Artwork Designed by Stephen O'Malley  cover design: unknown |