An Unofficial Keiji Haino Homepage -- Recent News





An Unofficial Keiji Haino Homepage
Recent News





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This page has a summary of some recent news. More information on this news is to be found in the appropriate section of this site. Thanks to all who contributed information to this page. Particular thanks to Alan Cummings and Hiromi Kudo.



May 14, 2013
Review:   A review of Haino's April 2013 performances in New York is in the New York Times, here.

May 4, 2013
Radio Play:   On Haino's 61st birthday yesterday, the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation NHK broadcasted Haino's track "Umaku-Dekinai" from his 1st album "Watashidake" on the Punk & New Wave special program on NHK-FM (http://www9.nhk.or.jp/zanmai/program/130503.html). This was first broadcast of Haino in 40 years on NHK since they banned Haino after his appearance on its TV program w/Magical Power Mako in February 1973. Reportedly, after Haino's appearance on the live broadcasting TV show "Hiru no Present (Gift of lunchtime)"on NHK with Magical Power Mako in 1973, the producer of the program was demoted by complaints flooding in from the viewers.
May 3, 2013
New Release:   A cd/lp has been released by the Japanese label Modest Launch Records titled "Jo Ha Kyu" and featuring the cellist Gaspar Claus collaborating with various luminaries of the Japanese experimental music scene, including an appearance by Haino on voice. The full list is below
  • Eiko Ishibashi - voice, piano, drums
  • Gaspar Claus - cello
  • Kakushin Nishihara - voice, satsuma biwa
  • Kazuki Tomokawa - voice, guitar
  • Kazutoki Umezu - tenor saxophone
  • Keiji Haino - voice
  • Hiromichi Sakamoto - electric cello
  • Leonard Eto - wadaiko
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto - piano
  • Yoshihide Otomo - turntable
  • Sachiko M - sine wave
Apparently, the Japanese release coincided with the "album release concert" in Tokyo on February 23, 2013. Many retailers also listed a "Jo Ha Kyu" release on the US label Important Records with a release date of February 26, 2013. Important records has not released this album. To date, only the Japanese release is available. At this point it is unclear if the Important Records release is a US version of the same material, or something different or nothing at all.

Regardless, a recording of the "album release concert" in Tokyo on February 23, 2013, which includes Haino is available from the Jo Ha Kyu website.

April 29, 2013
New Release:   There is a new release titled, "Now While It's Still Warm Let Us Pour in All the Mystery" by the trio fo Keiji Haino / Jim O'Rourke / Oren Ambarchi released by the Australian label Black Truffle Records on lp and cd. See the collaborations section of the discography for album cover and other details.

April 11, 2013
Live Dates:   Haino is touring the U.S. in April.
  • April 10, 2013 - Yale Union, Portland, Oregon
  • April 11, 2013 - Empty Bottle, Chicago, Illinois
  • April 13, 2013 - Haino solo voice performance - Fairchild Chapel at Oberlin College, Oberlin OH
  • April 14, 2013 - Haino solo performance - Dionysus Club, Oberlin OH
  • April 17, 2013 - Haino solo voice performance - Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
  • April 18, 2013 - Haino & Tamio Shiraishi - Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
  • April 20, 2013 - Haino with Loren Mazzacane Connors - Lower Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

February 1, 2013
Book Release:   Since 1995, this site, "An Unofficial Keiji Haino Website", has been maintained by the staff of the Poison Pie Publishing House at www.poisonpie.com. In addition to more than a passing interest in the music of Keiji Haino, the site maintenance man, David J. Keffer, maintains an active interest in the broader world of non-idiomatic improvisation including teaching a course titled The Golden Age of Non-Idiomatic Improvisation at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

This interest has led David Keffer to write a "novel of non-idiomatic improvisation" published through the Poison Pie Publishing House. The novel is titled "A Sutra of Reverse Possession: a novel of non-idiomatic improvisation". Folks who appreciate the philosophy underlying non-idiomatic improvisation may find this novel rewarding.

A flyer describing the novel is available here. An excerpt from the novel can be read at amazon.com. In the U.S. the book can be purchased in either paperback or ebook format from amazon.com. In other parts of the world, the book is also available through amazon's international partners, including the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and Japan.

Mr. Hiromi Kudo, who has provided virtually all of the recent photographs in the "visuals section" of the Haino site, has written a nice review of the Poison Pie Publishing House on his (Japanese-language) blog.

Reviews of the novel can be left at goodreads.com.

For more information about the Poison Pie Publishing House, visit www.poisonpie.com/publishing.

March 6, 2013
New Release:   The 5xcd+booklet+box release, long story short by Peter Brötzmann is out. It has been moved from the forthcoming section to the "guest appearance" section of the discography.
February 26, 2013
Forthcoming Release:   There is a forthcoming release titled, "Now While It's Still Warm Let Us Pour in All the Mystery" by the trio fo Keiji Haino / Jim O'Rourke / Oren Ambarchi released by the Australian label Black Truffle Records on lp and cd. The release is scheduled for 2013, presumably early, since in 2010-2012, this same trio released a recording early in the year. See the forthcoming section of the discography for album cover and other details.

February 18, 2013
Forthcoming Release:   Peter Brötzmann will release a 5 cd boxset on the label "trost" titled "long story short", featuring performances from the "Unlimited" festival in Wels, Austria on November, 2011. Apparently, the official release date is February 19, 2013. A 24-page booklet is included and the label number is TR112. Haino appears on at least one disc. Some track information is provided below.
    disc one:
  • sonore
  • chicago tentet with john tchicai
  • michiyo yagi / okkyung lee / xu fengxia
  • peter brötzmann / masahiko satoh / takeo moriyama


  • disc two:
  • joe mcphee / maallem mokhtar gania / fred longberg-holm / michael zerang
  • peter brötzmann / michiyo yagi / tamaya honda
  • peter brötzmann / jason adasiewicz / sabu toyozumi
  • dieb13 / mats gustafsson / martin siewert


  • disc three:
  • keiji haino
  • peter brötzmann / bill laswell / maallem mokhtar gania / hamid drake


  • disc four:
  • jeb bishop / joe mcphee / mars williams / jason adasiewicz / kent kessler / tamaya honda
  • hairy bones
  • masahiko satoh
  • chicago tentet with michiyo yagi "concert for fukushima"


  • disc five:
  • peter brötzmann / eric revis / nasheet waits
  • dkv trio with mats gustafsson / massimo pupillo / paal nilssen-love
  • full blast
  • caspar brötzmann massaker

February 1, 2013
Forthcoming Release:   A cd/lp will be released by important records titled "Jo Ha Kyu" and featuring the cellist Gaspar Claus collaborating with various luminaries of the Japanese experimental music scene, including an appearance by Haino on voice. The full list is below
  • Eiko Ishibashi - voice, piano, drums
  • Gaspar Claus - cello
  • Kakushin Nishihara - voice, satsuma biwa
  • Kazuki Tomokawa - voice, guitar
  • Kazutoki Umezu - tenor saxophone
  • Keiji Haino - voice
  • Hiromichi Sakamoto - electric cello
  • Leonard Eto - wadaiko
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto - piano
  • Yoshihide Otomo - turntable
  • Sachiko M - sine wave
There is an "album release concert" in Tokyo on February 17, 2013. The official release date is February 26, 2013.

January 27, 2013
New Release:   There is a new various artist compilation with two Haino tracks titled, "New Music for Old Instruments" released by incunabulum records. See the compilation section of the discography for more information.

January 18, 2013
New Release:   I added a new release by Seijaku to the "collaboration" section of the discography. This is a cdr given away at a couple concerts titled "Seijaku 2010-2011".

January 11, 2013
Releases in 2012:   For those keeping track at home, it appears that the full slate of Haino releases for the calendar year 2012 rounds out at six.
  1. Fushitsusha - Mabushii itazura na inori (Heartfast Records, HFCD014, September 18, 2012, cd)
  2. Fushitsusha/Keiji Haino - A Document Film of Keiji HAINO (Purple Trap Records, PT002, release date: July 7, 2012, cd)
  3. Keiji Haino, Steven O'Malley and Oren Ambarchi - Nazoranai (editions MEGO, SOMA009, July 3, 2012, 2xlp)
  4. Various Artists (contains Keiji Haino & Tony Conrad track) - Sonic Protest 2012 (Sonic Protest - no catalog number - May, 2012, cdx2)
  5. Fushitsusha - Hikari To Nazukeyou (Heartfast Records, HFCD013, April 27, 2012, cd)
  6. Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke and Oren Ambarchi - Imikuzushi (Black Truffle Records/medama records, BT07/mr03, February, 2012, 2xlp)
If there are missing items in this list, please email me.

There was also a book
  • "Haino Keiji no Sekai" (The World of Keiji Haino), Kawade Shobo Shinsha, November 22, 2012, 320 pages, ISBN: 978-4-309-27324-2.


  • and a documentary
  • A Document Film of Keiji HAINO, released at select theaters in Tokyo on July 7, 2012.






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