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December 9, 2018
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Releases in 2018:
For those keeping track at home, it appears that the full slate of Haino releases and reissues for the calendar year 2018 rounds out at three official releases and one promotional release.
There are several unannounced releases planned for 2019. One that continues to be rumored is the vinyl release of Fushitsusha PSFD 15~16 on Black Editions.
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October 20, 2018
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Archive of Streaming Live Shows:
Arika has recently published an archive of streaming live shows including numerous Haino contributions. This includes the four hour "Secret of Music" shows from May, 2005, which were once slated for release but were never made publicly available until now. Direct links are provided below.
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August 11, 2018
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New Release:
The second album featuring a collaboration between the Turkish free jazz unit, Konstrukt, and Keiji Haino has now been released by karlrecords prior to the announced release date of August 31, 2018. The album is titled A Philosophy Warping, Little By Little That Way Lies A Quagmire (Live). This is to be distingished from the first release, which was titled A Philosophy Warping, Little By Little That Way Lies A Quagmire. The release is available for streaming on bandcamp. More information is in the other collaborations section of the discography.
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August 3, 2018
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New Release:
The cd by Keiji Haino & MUSQIS is out. More information is in the other collaborations section of the discography, on the Slow Down Records website and on amazon.co.jp. There is a sample on soundcloud.
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July 6, 2018
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Forthcoming Release:
A second album featuring a collaboration between the Turkish free jazz unit, Konstrukt, and Keiji Haino is scheduled for release by karlrecords on August 31, 2018. The album is titled A Philosophy Warping, Little By Little That Way Lies A Quagmire (Live). This is to be distingished from the first release, which was titled A Philosophy Warping, Little By Little That Way Lies A Quagmire. More information is in the forthcoming section of the discography.
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July 2, 2018
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Forthcoming Release:
There is a new thirty-minute "single" being released later this month by Keiji Haino & MUSQIS. More information is in the forthcoming section of the discography, on the Slow Down Records website and on amazon.co.jp. There is a sample on soundcloud.
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April 17, 2018
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NPR:
On March 27, 2018, a story about Haino appears on the NPR website: here.
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April 9, 2018
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Live Recording:
A good quality live recording from April 1, 2018, featuring Keiji Haino performing with Peter Brötzmann and Heather Leigh in Antwerp is posted on youtube here. This trio has been touring Europe.
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March 4, 2018
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Live Show:
On March 2, 2018, Fushitusha performed with an unrecorded line-up from 1981, featuring Haino on guitar and vocals, Hiroyuki Usui on drums and Hiroyuki Watanabe on bass. A flyer for the performance is here.
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March 1, 2018
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Article:
There is a neat article on the recent Haino & Sumac release, American Dollar Bill - Keep Facing Sideways, You're Too Hideous to Look at Face On on bandcamp.
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February 21, 2018
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New Release:
While the official release date for the Haino & Sumac release, American Dollar Bill - Keep Facing Sideways, You're Too Hideous to Look at Face On is February 23, 2018, my copy arrived in the mail yesterday, so the release is out. The entry has been moved from the forthcoming section of the discography to the ensembles (other) section.
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February 10, 2018
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Kickstarter: 2017: The Year of the Every-Day Magician Without undue fanfare, the Poison Pie Publishing House, which has hosted an Unofficial Keiji Haino Website since 1995, has launched its first Kickstarter project. If funded, this project would result in the publication of a hardcover version of 2017: The Year of the Every-Day Magician, a post-existential fantasy generated through a non-idiomatic improvisational creative process. One page of the novel was written for each day of the year 2017. Of relevance to the unofficial Haino site, the entire month of May was written to a Haino album with a different ensemble or collaborator(s). The novel follows two neighborhood boys, Oscar and Omar. Oscar is a member of a white working class family, whose fortunes are in decline. Omar is the son of first-generation immigrants, professionals from Iran. These two boys navigate a friendship in the social landscape reflecting the political events of 2017 as they happen and the social tensions created by the current president and his policies. The novel is subtitled, The Rise and Fall of the Renegades of the American Muslim Registry. It responds directly to the president's suggestion, voiced during his campaign, to create a list of all Muslims in the United States, citizens or otherwise. That such a registry has not come to pass is a result only of the vigilance of those who reject such a list as inherently immoral. The purpose of this Kickstarter project is to provide a high quality hardcover book to bibliophiles, who would like to hold a physical copy of the novel in their hands. The book will be six by nine inches in dimension and approximately 395 pages in length (365 pages of story plus indices and front matter). The book will feature a hardcover binding with cream interior paper (60# weight). The dustjacket will be made of paper (80# weight) with full-color exterior ink and a matte finish. Beneath the dust jacket the book will be bound in a black linen material with gold foil stamping on the spine. The project runs through Monday morning, March 12, 2018. The full text of the novel remains online via free, anonymous access at the Poison Pie Publishing House (link).
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February 4, 2018
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Forthcoming Release:
The new album by the American/Canadian metal band, Sumac, with Keiji Haino, titled American Dollar Bill - Keep Facing Sideways, You're Too Hideous to Look at Face On remains up for preorder at Thrill Jockey with a release date of February 23, 2018. It is available in both cd and double lp format. The cd, vinyl and a digital edition are available from bandcamp.com.
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January 8, 2018
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Upcoming Live Date:
Some years ago we stopped posting live dates on the Haino site. However, here is one worth mentioning. March 2 (Fri) doors 19:00; start 19:30 Club Goodman, Akihabara, Tokyo The Silence + Fushitsusha 1981 Fushitsusha 1981 will be the 1981 line-up, i.e. Haino (g, vo), Hiroyuki Usui (dr), Hiroyuki Watanabe (bs). There are no released recordings of this line-up. |
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January 8, 2018
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Discography Items on discogs.com:
Some folks have written in that their are items on discogs.com that don't appear in the discography maintained on this site. The items include some items that may be legitimate releases, such as
We could potentially add the legitimate releases to the discography. If visitors to the site have more information on any of these, feel free to email us. |
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January 1, 2018
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Releases in 2017:
For those keeping track at home, it appears that the full slate of Haino releases and reissues for the calendar year 2017 rounds out at 11.
If there are missing items in this list, please email me. In addition to these records, there is some information regarding the following releases planned for 2018.
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