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Keiji Haino, Hans Reichel and Motoharu Yoshizawa
In memory of Hans Reichel passing away on November 22, 2011,
I have posted a live recording of Hans Reichel playing as a trio with Keiji Haino and Motoharu Yoshizawa (1931-1998)
on January 10, 1991 at Gospel in Tokyo.
Reichel was, among other things, a master of improvisational guitar in the last three decades of the twentieth century.
He had a distinct musical vision as few others do.
He ranks with Derek Bailey and Keiji Haino in creating a uniquely individual genre within non-idiomatic improvisational music.
I received this recording on a cassette about 1993 through the mail (specific details of the source forgotten,
but I think it was someone at Forced Exposure). I clumsily "remastered" (too grand a word to be sure) the contents onto cdr.
The show is provided here as two mp3 files, side A
and side B.
Forgive the lo-fi sound quality.
To my knowledge this is the only instance of Haino and Reichel playing together.
It is not one of the extraordinary highlights of Reichel's musical career, but rather an unreleased sidebar.
I have posted a Hans Reichel obituary of my own.
We also created an improvisational piece titled, "A Requiem for Hans Reichel", performed
on daxophone, theremin, thumb piano and washing machine.
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Keiji Haino and Tony Conrad
personnel:
- Keiji Haino (voice)
- Tony Conrad (violin)
- Alexandra Gelencser (cello)
date: June 6, 1998
venue: Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan
duration: 16 minutes
size: 15,854,445 bytes
original source format: audio tape
converted to mp3: David Keffer
comments: Haino and Conrad played individual sets during the show. They played together only for this encore.
audio file: haino_conrad_060698.mp3
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