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November 27, 2000
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New Release:
A new compact disc featuring Keiji Haino (vocals) and Derek Bailey (guitar) will be released on Incus Records (Incus CD 40) with
a planned release date of December 1, 2000.
The disc is titled "Songs".
This disc will certainly be different than the first Haino/Bailey due cd (on Tokuma) because that cd featured
Haino exclusively on guitar and this new cd on Incus features Haino exclusively on voice.
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October 26, 2000
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New Release:
A new compact disc featuring Keiji Haino (guitar, vocals + ) and Coa, a duo of two Japanese Women, has been released on
the Japanese independent label Horen.
The disc is titled "You should draw out the billion and first prayer".
Haino and Coa had previously released one collaborative track on the Charnel Music compilation,
"Land of the Rising Noise, Volume 3".
Additional details are entered in the collaborations section of the discography.
Reviews are welcome in the Reviews section.
I don't know about overseas distribution for this disc but
Forced Exposure carries other releases on Horen, so they will
likely eventually get this one as well.
Contact information for Horen is located in the labels section of this site.
A catalog of video and cd products from Augen/Horen with mail order instructions is listed here.
There's a site with some additional information in Japanese
here.
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October 25, 2000
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website: The October, 2000 issue of The Wire is the magazine's 200th issue.
In this issue, The Wire lists 200 essential music sites in an article titled "wire200.net"
An Unofficial Keiji Haino Website is listed among the sites.
Live Dates: The Fushitsusha shows in Europe in November appear to be Haino/Ozawa duos, with Ozawa on bass and Haino on guitar, voice, and sometimes percussion. This is a result of Haino having not yet found a permanent replacement for the former Fushitsusha (and Aihiyo) drummer, Ikuro Takahashi. Forthcoming Release: It appears that the new Haino release on Alien8 Records will be due out by early December, 2000. According to the Alien8 website, it will be a double cd of solo material. |
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October 2, 2000
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New Release:
A new compact disc featuring Keiji Haino (guitar, vocals), Peter Brötzmann (sax), and Shoji Hano (perc)
entitled "Shadow - Live in Welz, Austria" has been released by the Japanese label, DIW records.
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 Welz, Austria.
Additional details are entered in the collaborations section of the discography.
Reviews are welcome in the Reviews section.
This cd is available from Forced Exposure. |
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September 20, 2000
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New Release:
The new duo featuring Shoji Hano (perc) and Keiji Haino (guitar, vocals)
entitled "The Strange Face" has been released by Ultra Hard Gel records.
This cd features five guitar/percussion duets and two voice/percussion duets.
Additional details are entered in the collaborations section of the discography.
Reviews are welcome in the Reviews section.
This cd is available from Forced Exposure. |
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September 12, 2000
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Live Dates:
The Festival November Music takes place for the eighth time. They present all
kinds of new music (classical, improvised, rock, avant-garde, etnic, etc).
The festival takes place in three countries/cities, 's-Hertogenbosch (NL),
Gent (B), Essen (D). The festival is 4 -days. Every year they have a theme.
This year the theme is "East meets West". They present Roscoe Mitchell,
Machine For Making Sense, Chris Mann, David Shea, Pluto, etc. They expect 100
people every evening. It's a small but nice festival.
You can look on the website for more information: www.novembermusic.net.
(Currently, most information is in dutch but there will be more in
English in a few weeks.) There will be 3 concerts by Fushitsusha: Friday 17th of november: W2, Boschdijkstraat 100, 's-Hertogenbosch (NL): 23.00 hr Saturday 18th november: Vooruit, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 23, 9000 Gent (B): 23.00 hr Sunday 19th of november: Folkwanh Hochschule, Klemensborn 39, 45239 Essen (D), 21.30/22.00 hr |
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September 8, 2000
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| discography: The cd version of the Fred Frith recording, "Speechless" released in 1991, contains the track "Dig" performed by Fake & Keiji Haino, which was previously released on the "Welcome to Dreamland" compilation. Added this release to the "guest appearances" section of the discography. | |
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August 30, 2000
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| Live Dates: The Haino/Hano/Brötzmann tour in mid September in Europe and the October Haino/Hano/Brötzmann in Japan have both been canceled. | |
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August 25, 2000
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| Discography: There is a Haino profile (all in Japanese) on the Japanese Official Haino site. For 1974 there's the following entry: "Participates in Magical Power Mako's first album (Polydor). Appears on the NHK TV programme "Hiru no prezento", but the station is overwhelmed by complaints from viewers and the director is demoted. Participates in the soundtrack to the film "Himiko" (director: Shinoda Masahiro; soundtrack: Takemitsu Toru)." If any of the visitors to this site know where to obtain a copy of the soundtrack or video to the movie "Himiko", let me know and I will post it. | |
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August 17, 2000
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| Visuals Added scans of half a dozen flyers (Visuals), the cover of the new Aihiyo album (Discography), the cover of the new Arcane Candy zine, and the cover of the French Haino book (Interviews). Also noted that a bunch more reviews have been submitted (Reviews). | |
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August 11, 2000
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Links:
Added a link to the "Official Keiji Haino Website". This website is in Japanese and includes
a discography (no items there that aren't here), live dates (sometimes more current than
the ones on this site), a message board, and links. "An Unofficial Keiji Haino Website" is now the Official Keiji Haino website for the English-speaking world. I don't think I am going to change the name, though. |
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August 4, 2000
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| Lyrics: Added translations of the lyrics to the first Aihiyo album. Translations courtesy of Alan Cummings. | |
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July 25, 2000
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Interviews:
Added a citation for the first issue of the zine, Arcane Candy.
This issue is primarily dedicated to reviews of Haino albums,
including 65 releases. If you have been looking for a comprehensive
discussion of Haino's work release by release. This is it.
The issue is currently available and can be obtained by sending $5 (in the US and $6 internationally) to
Arcane Candy P.O. Box 230370 Encinitas, California 92023 |
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July 18, 2000
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Interviews:
Added a citation for the Haino interview in the Japanese magazine, "Imperial Theater" volume 5, published in March, 1992.
This magazine included a cassette with one side featuring a performance by Keiji Haino and
Toshi Ishizuka live at Lazyways, Koenji, Tokyo on June 29, 1991. This cassette has been added to the
collaborations section of the discography.
New Releases: The Japanese label, La Musica Records lists available for sale on its website two recordings which feature Keiji Haino. The first tape is by the band, Ten No Ohkami , and is titled "Ten no Ohkami", (La Musica, Tape 043). The second tape is a compilation of bands who played at the Japanese club, Minor, in 1978 and 1979, and is called "Heaven Tapes", (La Musica, Tape 135). These two recordings have been added to the discography in the collaborations and compilations sections respectively. |
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July 13, 2000
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Forthcoming re-release:
On the Atavistic website, there is an announcement
that they are reissuing HAPMONIYM Volumes 1 through 5 by Magical Power Mako.
These five cds were originally released in limited editions by Naohiro Ukawa's label, MoM 'n' DaD
in 1995.
Atavistic has a projected release date for this reissue of Summer 2000 and have assigned a catalog
number ALP109-113BX to what they are calling "Hapmoniym 5CD Reissue". It appears that this will be
a boxed set with the discs not available individually. Haino appears on volume one. See the
discography section of this
site under "Guest Appearances". Although Haino is recognizable (on voice) for only one song
(about six minutes) of the single track cd, all of the music on the cd is great. There is a nice
Magical Power Mako website in English and Japanese located
here.
Forthcoming video release: There are plans to release a video/DVD(?) of one of the Haino/Pauvros performances from May 1999 in France. The audio of one of the concerts was documented on Shambala records on the cd titled "Y" (SHAMB 99003, January, 2000). Forthcoming video release: There are plans to release a video of a short film about a guy and his girlfriend getting on a lightship and going to Japan. The soundtrack is by Haino. In the film they go to a gig that he played at Bateau-Forre - which is an old lightship permanently moored in the Seine and used as a gig venue. More info to be posted as it becomes available. Live Dates: The unconfirmed rumor is that Haino is returning to Germany in September to play more shows as a trio with Peter Brotzmann and Shoji Hano. More info on this will be posted on the site as details emerge. Also, plans are in the works for three Haino shows in Dublin. Note: the Dublin shows have now been postponed indefinitely (07/18/00). |
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July 3, 2000
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Forthcoming release:
The Japanese label, Horen, plans to release a compact disc
entitled "Ichioku to ichibanme no inori o michibiki daseba ii"
(A translation of the title: You should lure out the one billionth and first prayer)
featuring live, collaborative performances by Keiji Haino & Coa. The catalog number is
Horen/Mimi-010 and the projected release date is September 25th, 2000. A previous
collaboration between Haino and Coa appears on the compilation, "Land of the Rising Noise, Vol.3"
on Charnel Music - CHCD-33 - April, 1999.
New Release: The second Aihiyo cd (PSFD-8006) is appearing in the UK. It ought to reach the U.S. and elsewhere this week. An entry has been made for this album (Aihiyo II (Live)) in the Reviews Section of the website, for any of you that would like to read/write/request a review of the album. (It's listed under the collaborations tab on the reviews page.) |
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June 30, 2000
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Forthcoming release:
The Japanese label, DIW, plans to release a compact disc
with the trio of Keiji Haino, Peter Brötzmann, & Shoji Hano
featuring live material from their tour of
The Netherlands, Germany, & Austria from March 25 to April 2, 2000. No other information is currently
available.
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June 20, 2000
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Interviews:
Added notes on "l'ombre et son ombre - ou l'art sublime de Haino Keiji" by Bruno Fern,
a French book on the art of Keiji Haino.
Visuals: Added a copy of the flyer from the Fushitsusha show in London on May 22, 2000. Live Dates: Added dates for Haino performances in Japan in July & August. |
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June 7, 2000
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Visuals:
Added a copy of the set list (with English translations) from the Fushitsusha show in London on May 22, 2000.
Visuals: Added 4 Flyers from Vajra shows in Japan from 1995-1997. Added 4 other Flyers from Haino shows in Japan from 1995-1996, including 2 Fushitsusha shows, 1 solo show, and 1 duet with Motoharu Yoshizawa. Live Dates: Added dates for Haino performances in Japan in June and July. |
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May 26, 2000
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Forthcoming release: The second Aihiyo album (on PSF)
has a release date of June 25, 2000. See the "forthcoming" section of the discography for track listings.
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May 1, 2000
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Re-release: The Charles Hayward "Live In Japan" series on the Japanese
label, Locus Solus, has been re-released (or perhaps just changed distributors).
The second volume of the series features Haino making a guest appearance on three tracks, one duo with Hayward
and two trios with Hayward and Peter Brötzmann.
Forced Exposure is carrying all three cds in the series.
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April 19, 2000
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Interviews: The 1996 interview of Keiji Haino
by Biba Kopf that appeared in The Wire is now available complete on line. The
interview is located here.
Live Dates: Added more information for a Fushitsusha performance in London, England on Monday, May 22, 2000; it turns out Charles Hayward is going to join Haino and Ozawa as the drummer for the gig. (Hayward and Haino have previously collaborated during Hayward's April 1996 Japan tour. See the guest appearances section of the discography.) |
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April 15, 2000
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Forthcoming release: The Keiji Haino and Shoji Hano cd, "A Strange Face", on
the new American label, Ultra Hard Gel Records, has had its release date delayed until approximately June 1, 2000.
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April 11, 2000
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Live Dates: Added information for a Fushitsusha performance in
London, England on Monday, May 22, 2000.
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March 23, 2000
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Flyers: Added 2 flyers from a couple
1997 shows that Haino played with BORIS in Japan. (Flyers provided by Scott Slimm of
Malignant Neoplasm, a zine that had a BORIS interview in a recent issue. See
the Interviews Section.)
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March 14, 2000
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Live Dates: Added dates for the March-April tour through
Netherlands, Germany and Austria featuring the trio Shoji Hano (perc), Peter Brötzmann (sax), and Keiji Haino (g,v).
If someone dubs any of these shows, please let me know.
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March 8, 2000
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New Release: The March 2000 issue of the magazine, The Wire,
contains a cd sampler titled "The Wire Tapper #5". Track 17 of this sampler is track by Fushitsusha -
Don't be afraid Even if your nerves snap, you can tie them to a fragment of the
universe.... (This is track 3 from the Fushitsusha release I saw it!
That which before I could only sense... on Paratactile, PLE1106/07-2.
This sampler is available only to people who subscribe to The Wire.) |
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January 31, 2000
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Broadcast: A 52-minute video of the concerts of Haino and Jean-Francois Pauvros, performed in France in May, 1999,
will be broadcast on French Television, Channel Muzzik, sometime in April, 2000.
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January 18, 2000
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New Release: The cd, "Y", a duo with Keiji Haino
and Jean-Francois Pauvros has been released in January, 2000 on the French label, Shambala.
See the Collaborations section of the discography. In North
America, VERGE distributes Shambala and lists the cd in stock. New Release: The Fushitsusha double cd release, "I saw it! That which before I could only sense...", is released January 24, 2000 on the British label, Paratactile. See the Fushitsusha section of the discography. In North America, Forced Exposure distributes Paratactile, and I expect they will get this release relatively soon. News: Ikuro Takahashi, the drummer in Aihiyo and Fushitsusha as well as his other projects - Che-SHIZU, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, is retiring from music making. He will fulfill upcoming live commitments and then call it quits. Live Dates: Added dates for two shows with Shoji Hano in March. There are also plans for a tour through Germany and Austria featuring the trio Shoji Hano (perc), Peter Brötzmann (sax), and Keiji Haino (g,v) in late March or early April, 2000. Links: Added links to the European Free Improvisation web site maintained by Peter Stubley, St George's Librarian, St George's Library, The University of Sheffield. There is no comparable website for information on the music of European Free Improvisation. Also added a link to Hans Reichel's interactive personal home page at http://www.daxo.de/ |
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January 12, 2000
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Forthcoming Release: solo Haino project titled "Tokku ni owatta hazu na no ni...." to be released
on Idol Japan Records with a projected release date: April 1, 2000.
Visuals: Added 7 flyers from Haino performances 1999-2000. |
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