Interview: The next issue of the magazine, Revue & Corrigee, will contain an interview of Fushitusha. This issue is due out at the end of September. Revue & Corrigee is a French language magazine. Michel Hentritzi, operator of the Turtles Dream label soon to release a new Haino solo live cd, conducted the interview.
Uchihashi Kazuhisa
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Negishi-cho
Machida-shi
Tokyo, Japan
New Release: The Haino + Doo Dooettes + Potts album has been released on schedule in Japan. It should take a couple weeks to reach overseas distributors. Anyone who hears it is free to post a review in the reviews page of this website.
Doo-Dooettes + Keiji Haino + Rick Potts
Free Rock
PSF -- PSFD-131 -- projected release date: May or June, 2001, rescheduled for 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 (mock cello, strangaphone)
Keiji Haino (guitar)
Rick Potts (guitar)
note: Doo Dooettes are a noise/experimental grouping that came out of the Los Angeles Free Music Society.
- Blueprint For The Shimmering Quivers Of The Deep Purple Ultraviolent Tuning Fork
Forthcoming Release: Here is some info on a new label, Turtles' Dream, whose first release will feature Keiji Haino.
Turtles' Dream presents a series in sound documents - performances recorded live opening on a practice of improvisation worked by psychedelics, drone music and free. These experiments, too rarely exposed here, are loosely connected to the multiple idioms of Rock and Blues, outside the boundaries of fashion and tendencies. Within Turtles' Dream, the musician follows his own path, surrounded by a brotherhood of shadows in his wandering through the darkest of nights. Feel the presence of the great outsiders who helped defining the margins in the History of Music, spanning their shadow here and by: Angus Mc Lise, Albert Ayler, Henry Flynt, Tony Conrad, Kaoru Abe, Ghedalia Tazartes, The Velvet Underground, Antonin Artaud, Hiroshi Kawani, Derek Bailey...
Catalogue :
TDCD-01 : KEIJI HAINO ³ C¹est parfait ² endoctriné tu tombes la tête la première Š ² Live recording at Star's Pine (Tokyo, 2002), Keiji Haino plays rhythmboxes like Cecil Taylor plays piano, mixing rhythms cataclysm at his "Singing". Live act built on the haunting figure of the loop. (upcoming December 2002)
TDCD-02 : CHIE MUKAÏ / RINJI FUKUOKA Improvisation duo played from melancolic & darkness psychedelic side. Chie Mukaï (kokyu, drums, voice) and Rinji Fukuoka (cello, piano, drums) lost them in the opiate meanders of a drone free music. Recorded live the 07 & 08 September 2002 (Tokyo). (upcoming December 2002)
contact :
Michel Henritzi
22 rue St Paul
57950 Montigny-les-Metz
France
m_henritzi@club-internet.fr
New Release: The triple CD box set specially compiled to mark The Wire's 20th anniversary, titled The Wire 20 1982-2002: Audio Issue on Mute is available here: http://www.mute.co.uk/cgi/shopframes.cgi?pageID=246. There is one Fushitusha track from The Caution Appears on disc three of this compilation.
Flyer: This site has a scan of some photos from an article in a Japanese Rock Magazine of the debut gig of the Head Rush trio from August, 2002. The trio featured Haino, Reck, and Pill.
Gorgeous new bag of home-recorded mystery from Haino. Apparently recorded alone, late at night and at minimal volume, these latest recordings tremble with the same deep-welled emotional sensitivity and sense of veiled threat that animated classics like Watashi Dake?, Affection and Era of Sad Wings. With the trademark roar of his guitar held in check by necessity, Haino instead builds up a base of gently fractured looped riffs, over which he unfurls snaking, jagged ribbons of blue notes, layers of choral chant and whispered warnings. The atmosphere is replete with suggestions of medieval music, delta blues, and jazz - but glimpsed through a constantly shifting, dark and alien fog. The effect is entirely beautiful, managing to be impossibly touching, deeply meditative, and truly scary all at once. This is one that will suck the air out of the corners of your room late at night.
Forthcoming Release: The Haino & Doo Dooettes cd, "Free Rock" on PSF has had its release date postponed to November 25, 2002. Since the album was recorded in 1982, what's another month waiting for it?
Track 10 of disc three of this compilation is a Fushitsusha track, previously released as Track 5 (04:42) on The Caution Appears (Les disques du soleil et de l'acier, CDSA 54039, 1995).
If anyone gets a catalog number or a scan of the box cover, send it in.
The most recent solo recording of Keiji Haino. The vocal and guitar arrangements evoke a deep and quiet atmosphere rarely heard these days. His vocal echoes are as emotionally touching as if he is praying; the clarity of his voice is reminescent of medieval chants. The most masterly vocal album of Haino's ever recorded.
New Release: The Haino Solo Live album will be released on the new label "Turtles Dream" rather than "A Bruit Secret", as originally noted. Michel Henritzi operates both labels. It appears that the release date has been moved to November.
New Release: The Haino/Doo Dooettes album on PSF, "Free Rock" is still on target for an October 25, 2002 release. The press released posted on PSF Records, USA is as follows:
Live recording at PASADENA on August 8th, 1982. Different from a studio recording, improvisation by Doo-Dooettes & Keiji Haino so vivid that it's hard to believe that the sound is from two decades ago. An explosion of Haino's guitar not to be missed. We' ve started preparation of this release three years ago and it's finally completed! "FREE ROCK" is a beautiful fusion of free jazz, modern music, and psychedelic.
Live Dates: The Japanese Haino site lists the Tonic gig on November 15th as starting at 8pm and the bill as being Haino, Jim Black and "others". The November 16th date featuring Fushitsusha lists two sets, one at 8pm and one at 10pm.
Live Dates: The Keiji Haino/Akio Suzuki event at Xebec in Kobe on November 8 is now listed on the Xebec site at http://www.xebec.co.jp/xebec_hall/event/#kyousanevent. If you click the flier, you get a bigger version of the flyerwhich gives you the booking details in English.
- Arto Lindsay
- Emergency: John Zorn, John Medeski, Marc Ribot & Ben Perowsky
- Joey Baron & Vinicius Cantuaria
- Dougie Bowne's Peninsula
- Derek Bailey & Min Xiao-Fen
- Erik Friedlander, Sylvie Courvoisier & Ikue Mori
- Z'EV, Haino Keiji & Ikue Mori
- Susie Ibarra Trio
- Loren Mazzacane Connors & Kim Gordon
- Marina Rosenfeld & Raz Mesinai
From Tonic: "If you send a money order for $18 (CD plus shipping and handling) made payable to Tonic/MJ Frenzy we will send the CD to you immediately. Please include the address you'd like us to send the CD to."
Tonic
Attention: Melissa
107 Norfolk Street
New York, NY
10002
Live Dates: Added more live dates for November. This includes 2 shows in New York, including a collaborative show with "members of the NYC downtown scene" and a Fushitsusha show.
Live Report: The debut gig by Haino's new group Head Rush (featuring Haino on guitar and vocals, PILL on drums, and Reck [Friction] on bass) is being described as pretty straight rock. Apparently they played covers of The Kinks' You Really Got Me, and Velvet Underground's Venus in Furs.
Fifth album from the heavyweight PSF super-group of Keiji Haino, Kan Mikami, and Toshiaki Ishitsuka. Veterans all, the group members have a combined playing career of virtually a century. The group has been in a state of suspended animation for the past four years, but this album will hopefully kick off a new phase of activity for them.
What makes Vajra unique is its bizarre energy dynamic. Entirely improvised, the three players seem to shoot off in utterly opposing directions: Mikami's rhythm guitar and vocals providing a pulse universal to no one but himself, Ishitsuka beating martial time signatures like three military bands on the one parade ground, and Haino scuttling around slicing and dicing beautiful abyssal depths out from beneath everyone else's feet. Somehow (proof that space is curved?), three individuals arrive at the same place at roughly the same time.
Highlights include the third track, which comes as close to their massive live sound as anything the group has yet recorded. And the set's inevitable eyebrow raising moment? The accappella nursery rhyme version of Mikami's "Koppu wa kowareru daro" (off Live in the First Year of Heisei vol.2).
The Reviews section of this site is functioning again.
Feel free to enter reviews of either of them in the reviews section.
Interview: The forthcoming issue of The Wire (July, 2002 I think) contains a lengthy interview of Haino by Alan Cummings. The interview was conducted during the Le Weekend Festival in Stirling, Scotland on April 27 & 28, 2002.
New Release: Haino and Ruins combine to form the band, Knead. Their first cd, titled 1st has been released on PSF.
New Release: Vajra (Keiji Haino, Mikami Kan, and Toshiaki Ishizuka) plan to release their first album in five years. The projected release date is July 22, 2002 on PSF.
Miscellaneous Links: There is currently a site up that has some photographs of the recording session for Kazuki Tomokawa's Erise no Me (March 20, 2001). Haino played on a couple tracks on this album. These are the least posed photos of Haino around. The address is http://www.interq.or.jp/www-user/kurenai/info/report4.html . Here is a thumbnail from one of the pictures at that site. (Text in Japanese.)
(photo credit: Naoki Ozeki)
Forthcoming Release: The band, Knead, is formed by the collaboration of Keiji Haino with RUINS. PSF plans a May 25, 2002 release of their first album, appropriately titled, 1st, (PSFD-128). Recorded on December 8th, 2001.
Forthcoming Release: The Official Japanese Haino Site reports that a video recording of a live percussion performance by Haino will be released in May, 2002. No other information is currently available.
Live Dates: Haino will perform at Le Weekend Festival in Stirling, Scotland. Other artists appearing: at the festival include David S Ware Quartet, William Parker group, Shizuka, and Maher Shalal Hash Baz. Haino's dates are as follows:
- 27 April (Sat) Haino solo
- 28 April (Sun) Fushitsusha
Live Dates: More live dates for March and April have been added to the site. The live dates are all in Japan, except for March 17-24 in Taiwan & China.
