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An Unofficial Keiji Haino Homepage
Recent News -- 2019
December 18, 2019
Releases in 2019:   For those keeping track at home, it appears that the full slate of Haino releases and reissues for the calendar year 2019 rounds out at six official releases.
  1. Sanhedrin - Change Your Density So as to Rise From the Ocean of Duty (Trailights Record, TRLT-0016, September 4, 2019, cd)
  2. Haino, Keiji and Merzbow and Balazs Pandi - Become The Discovered, Not The Discoverer (Rare Noise Records, RNR111LP, September 29, 2019, lpx2+mp3dl)
  3. Oren Ambarchi, Jim O'Rourke & Keiji Haino - In the past only geniuses were capable of staging the perfect crime (also known as a revolution) Today anybody can accomplish their aims with the push of the button (Black Truffle Records/medama records, BT050/mr09, September 27, 2019, lpx2)
  4. Keiji Haino & Sumac - Even for just the briefest moment Keep charging this "expiation" Plug in to making it slightly better (Trost Records, 183CD, July, 2019, lpx2 or cd or cassette)
  5. Keiji Haino & Charles Hayward - A Loss Permitted To Open Its Eyes For But Three Hours And There Glimpsed, Finally In Focus A Mystery That Begs Earnestly... (Thirtythree Thirtythree, TTTT 004LP, July, 2019, lp)
  6. Various Artists - Tokyo Flashback: Psychedelic Speed Freaks (Black Editions, BE-1001, April 12, 2019, lpx4+mp3dl)
If there are missing items in this list, please email me.

November 27, 2019
Interview:   There is a pretty neat interview with Haino on the occasion of his first visit to South America. The interview is here on the Japan Foundation of Sao Paolo site. The interview is in Portuguese, but the interview reads well translated to English via google translate.

October 2, 2019
New Release:   The Sanhedrin trio, composed of Haino (g), Tatsuya Yoshida (dr) & Mitsuru Natsuno (b), has released a new recording Change Your Density So as to Rise From the Ocean of Duty as of September 4, 2019. We have added an entry in the Yoshida collaborations section of the discography. More information is available from the label on the Trailights Records website. The disc seems to be available only from Japan, including amazon.co.jp and cdjapan.co.jp.

September 28, 2019
New Release:   The second collaboration between Keiji Haino, Merzbow & Balázs Pándi is titled Become The Discovered, Not The Discoverer and has been released by RareNoise Records with an official release date of September 27, 2019. We have added an entry in the other collaborations section of the discography. The entire album is currently available for streaming at The Wire.

September 21, 2019
New Release:   The second collaboration between Keiji Haino, Merzbow & Balázs Pándi is titled Become The Discovered, Not The Discoverer and is set to be released by RareNoise Records with an official release date of September 27, 2019. We have added an entry in the forthcoming section of the discography. The entire album is currently available for streaming at The Wire.

September 3, 2019
New Release:   The double lp featuring the ninth collaboration between Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke & Oren Ambarchi arrived on our doorstep today, despite the official release date of September 27, 2019. We have added an entry in the O'Rourke collaborations section of the discography.

August 31, 2019
New Release:   The second collaboration between Keiji Haino & Sumac, which was released this summer on cd and cassette, will be available on 2xlp with an official release date of September 27, 2019. The album, released on Trost Records of Vienna is titled Even For Just The Briefest Moment / Keep Charging This "Expiation" / Plug In To Making It Slightly Better. We have added an entry in the other collaborations section of the discography. To our knowledge, all formats contain the same content.

Forthcoming Release:   The ninth collaboration between Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke & Oren Ambarchi, will be available on 2xlp and cd with an official release date of September 27, 2019. The album, released on Ambarchi's Black Truffle Records of Australia is titled In the past only geniuses were capable of staging the perfect crime (also known as a revolution) Today anybody can accomplish their aims with the push of the button. We have added an entry in the forthcoming section of the discography.

July 30, 2019
New Release:   Although officially released on July 5, 2019, the second collaboration between Keiji Haino & Sumac is now widely available. The cd, released on Trost Records of Vienna is succinctly titled Even For Just The Briefest Moment / Keep Charging This "Expiation" / Plug In To Making It Slightly Better. We have added an entry in the other collaborations section of the discography.

July 20, 2019
New Release:   The Sanhedrin trio, composed of Haino (g), Tatsuya Yoshida (dr) & Mitsuru Natsuno (b), has announced the release of a new recording Change Your Density So as to Rise From the Ocean of Duty for September 4, 2019. We have added an entry in the forthcoming collaborations section of the discography. More information is available from the label on the Trailights Records website.

July 1, 2019
New Release:   The Keiji Haino & Charles Hayward collaborative recording titled, A Loss Permitted To Open Its Eyes For But Three Hours And There Glimpsed, Finally In Focus A Mystery That Begs Earnestly, "Ask Me Nothing" Now, Once More The Problem Is Yours Alone has been released. We have added an entry in the other collaborations section of the discography.

June 7, 2019
New Release:   Keiji Haino & Charles Hayward will release a collaborative recording titled, A Loss Permitted To Open Its Eyes For But Three Hours And There Glimpsed, Finally In Focus A Mystery That Begs Earnestly, "Ask Me Nothing" Now, Once More The Problem Is Yours Alone. The album is to released as an lp on the British label, Thirtythree Thirtythree, with a date of July 5, 2019. We have added an entry in the forthcoming section of the discography.

May 23, 2019
Streaming DJ Broadcast:   ON May 21, 2019, Haino acted as DJ for a 90-minute set broadcast on NTS Radio of London. The set is available for streaming here.

May 18, 2019
New Release:   Keiji Haino & Sumac will release a second collaborative recording titled, Even for just the briefest moment Keep charging this "expiation" Plug in to making it slightly better. The album is to released as a cd on the Austrian label, Trost records, with a date of July 5, 2019. We have added an entry in the forthcoming section of the discography.

May 13, 2019
New Release Reissue:   The compilation titled, Tokyo Flashback: Psychedelic Speed Freaks is now out. It was not apparent until arrival that this 4xlp compilation on the Black Editions label contains the same tracks that were on the Tokyo Flashback P.S.F. - Psychedelic Speed Freaks compilation released on two compact discs by Super Fuji Discs on May 24, 2017. Only the cover and the order of the tracks is changed. The Black Editions website incorrectly states that these tracks are all previously unreleased. We have added an entry in the compilation section of the discography.

March 21, 2019
New Release:   A compilation titled, Tokyo Flashback: Psychedelic Speed Freaks is being released on April 12, 2019 by Black Editions on four vinyl records (including digital download). We have added an entry in the forthcoming section of the discography. The tracks are previously unreleased. The link to the Black Editions website is here.





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