haino: s/d

Overall, i'd say you must buy everything he's released on PSF first.

so you want:

Watashi dake: studio alb from '81 w/4 extra tracks.
Affection: solo live set from 1993. One of the great albums.

also I will get the hurdy gurdy album he's released on there as well.

Then go to his other groups: Nujiumu's 'era of sad wings' and the lost araff. Vajra (though I am in the process of getting some of these and it will take a while since I am busy with other things but I'll report back).

my feeling is: once the outside world 'found' him they started issuing anything with his name on it so I would be careful. Though search for 'aima no gawa' which is a solo rec from '72 (voice and electronics). I'm going on a gut felling that it will be good because it was relesed when he wasn't 'noticed'. But i haven't heard it.

good luck toby!

the hurdy-gurdy albums are tops, when it comes to the more drone-oriented side of haino; "so, black is myself" is less interesting but easier to find. the nijiumu album "era of sad wings" is very drone-oriented - sort of a soundtrack to some kind of obscure ritual ordeal.

others:
_tenshi no gijinka_ - percussion, percussion, percussion. nice.
_amanogawa (milky way)_ - live, corrosive electronics - pure noise.
_beginning and end, interwoven_ - sort of _watashi-dake_ part II

he did a 3" cd of rudra vina (huge indian string instrument, sort of like a slide guitar with massive sustain) i'd kill to hear. there are two releases on forced exposure (_execration that accept..._ and _the book of 'eternity set aflame'_) i find tedious.

the unofficial keiji haino website has a really nice review section written by visitors to the site.

I wouldn't say any of his releases are 'definitive' but 'watashi... is truly great stuff. I prefer Affection but there's a lot to what he does in a solo context.

1) Keiji Haino
"Twenty-first Century Hard-y Guide-y Man"
PSF - PSFD 68 - released 1995
compact disc - 4 tracks - 73 minutes 13 seconds
Keiji Haino (hurdy gurdy, voice)

(they haf a copy at rough trade but its 25.99 which is RIDICULOUS, PSF alb only cost 17.99 so I'll try and look at some other places)

2)"The 21st Century Hard-y Guide-y Man
Even Now, Still I Think"
Tokuma Japan Communications - TKCF 77023 - released June 24, 1998
compact disc - 1 track - 72 minutes 28 seconds

http://www.planetc.com/users/keffer/haino/images/2_4a.gif

vs.

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/5991/heino1.gif

Got another of his solo albums through soulseek and listening to 'Milky way live 1973': apparently its guitar and voice though its an ambient wash, with his wordless vocals coming in and out. It reminds of his hurdy gurdy alb.

'Mily way' is one of his v best btw (just in case i wasn't making myself clear with the previous post).

Any more?

I just picked up my first Keiji Haino today -- I Said, This Is the Son of Nihilism -- which I believe is the rereleased version on Table of the Elements. And I like it. Anyone know how this compares to the rest of his catalog?

Also, what can I find easily in the US right now? Anything worth getting? Or am I looking for a bunch of out-of-print stuff to get more Haino in my collection?

Thanks...

forcedexposure has "watashi-dake?" which i HIGHLY recommend.

I Said, This Is the Son of Nihilism -- which I believe is the rereleased version on Table of the Elements

Has this been rereleased? As far as I know it's out of print and hard/expensive to get hold of. Where did you get it? Did you grab a bargain?

The one show he did play on that otherwise cancelled US 2006 tour (at the Walker in Minneapolis) was fantastic, live soundtracking a film of a hotdog eating contest played backwards. After that, he did a brief (like ten minute) encore of classic destructo-guitar Haino wildness. The dude just has presence;watching him dance around was almost as good as the music itself.

Lurks OTM (I was there)...is there any available material re: this film's soundtrack by Keiji? I've been dying for a video or at least a cd of the music he performed when I saw him. Haunting falsetto, multi-layered loops of unthinkable guitar textures, multi-layered loops of backwards eating sounds, drum machine. Epic, epic performance. One of my favorites.

I still have the bootleg I managed from the encore.

Which was more like 3 minutes.

Has this been rereleased? As far as I know it's out of print and hard/expensive to get hold of. Where did you get it? Did you grab a bargain?

i'm actually not sure. i have the table of the elements version, which has a sleeve that says "unavailable since an initial, limited pressing in 1995" -- so it's not the original pressing, but hey, maybe this version is out of print too now. i got it for like $4 at a local shop.

I hadn't really realised there was a repress by TOE as mentioned in that sleeve note. The Haino unofficial website only lists the 1995 version, but if discogs incomplete listing is to be believed the rerelease looks like it was in 2002. But both pressings are out of print now and not so easy/affordable to get hold of. Any way $4 is most definitely a bargain; nice find. I paid a hell of a lot more than that for my copy, without feeling ripped off, and it's a lot pricier than that on discogs and gemm (try $50-ish).

i haven't paid more than $4 for a haino album in yonks: execration, book of eternity, affection, fushitsusha's allegorical misunderstanding, gerry miles... maybe i'm lucky that nobody around here thinks he's cool anymore.

Taking sides: Haino vs. Heino.....

-- Kerry, Wednesday, 21 August 2002 13:08 (5 years ago) Link
I was waiting for that comparison.

in that old beck vs. thurston moore interview on mtv, was he saying heino or haino was the first record he bought?

If anyone has a copy of Issue 1 of Arcane Candy from back in 2000 that they'd be willing to part with, then I'd really love to get hold of one.

I know that the content is on the website, but a physical copy would be so much better (ink & paper to the max!). Aye, it's the exhaustive Haino article that I'm after. I just got Issue 2 and the PSF piece is wonderful reading. So fullsome.

If you have one, or have any leads, then please do get in touch. Thanks.

I've been listening to Sanhedrin/Sanhedolin a lot during the last week, which is the trio of Keiji Haino on guitar & vocals, Tatsuya Yoshida on drums and Mitsuru Nasuno on bass.

Both the first album on PSF as Sanhedolin and the more recent one from last year as Sanhedrin on Breathing Bass are incredible. They're incendiary, as you may expect, but in a way more accessible than you might expect; it's very heavy rocking. This fifth track on the newer album is stunning, Yoshida is totally pummeling it on the drums, great driving solid bass lines from Nasuno and Haino is raging on absolute blazing fire on the guitar over the top of it all, screaming solos and feedback. Totally awesome.

I'd love to see these guys live. I wonder if this would be a good troupe to try and get to play; with the album last year they're a more current on going proposition than other Haino projects and Yoshida would be a very interesting musician to see in his own right, so it wouldn't be a pure Haino-fanboy-fest...

Keiji Haino is playing two nights at Cafe OTO in London at the start of April; one night with Matthew Bower's Voltiguers and the other with Peter Brötzmann...

http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/keiji-haino.shtm

I will be there.

OK I should be there for the Brotzmann gig.

Its time I actually saw him.

don't suppose i'll ever catch haino in texas... but i can dream, right?

haino + bower + brotzmann = unfuckwithable

I can imagine (or perhaps dream of) Haino playing with Jandek at some point, so maybe he could go to Texas for that?

Much prefer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJLsSbp5_c4

Finally got to looking at my photos from the Godspeed You! Black Emperor ATP festival in December...

http://krakow.zenfolio.com/img/s1/v19/p942554170-3.jpg

i wouldn't ever want to see haino photographed in color -- one of those things that just isn't meant to be

Don't buy the one he put out on Streamline, then!

bought my weekend pass for both those london dates

julio, if krakow and I can make it down from Glasgow, you've got to make it for the Brotz gig

That's excellent news Ward! See you there!

Fushitsusha played with Brötzmann once. When I interviewed Haino he told me it was even recorded, but that the tape was not of releasable quality. A small part of me died when I heard that.

i take it that's different than the haino/brotzmann stuff that was released on CD alreadY?

Yeah, that stuff is either vocal/sax duos, or guitar/drums/sax (that one - Shadows, with Shoji Hano on drums, is pretty killer). This was a show by Fushitsusha, the full trio version, with Brötzmann guesting.

ooooohh i want to hear that :(

Affection is so cool. It's really harmonious in a strange way, even when it gets noisy. It's kinda sweet! Want the cover made into a shirt.

http://i54.tinypic.com/210mtlx.jpg

hope you bought yr tix ― xyzzzz__, cos those london gigs have now SOLD OUT

Apparently there is a new Keiji Haino, Jim ORourke & Oren Ambarchi 2xLP called 'Imikuzushi' coming on Black Truffle!

From the new Fusetron list...

*Artist: HAINO, KEIJI/JIM OROURKE/OREN AMBARCHI
Title: Imikuzushi
Format: Double LP
Label: Black Truffle
Country: Australia
Price: $28.00
"Limited gatefold double LP version with printed innersleeves. The yearly summit of Keiji Haino, Jim ORourke and Oren Ambarchi continues with Imikuzushi, which finds the group extending the power-trio strategies of 2011s highly-praised In A Flash Everything Comes Together As One There Is No Need For A Subject (BT 005LP) and bringing to them a newly-sustained intensity. For this performance, Haino limits himself to electric guitar and vocals, forming complex networks of slashing rhythm work, noise squall and chromatic shredding, moving at times to near-silent passages of howled vocals and isolated, hanging guitar strums. The tendency towards driving free-rock which surfaced on moments of the trios last release is cemented here, with ORourkes fuzzed-out, non-linear bass riffing moving the music into almost garage-rock areas, combining with Ambarchis drums to form a bedrock of hypnotic, metronomic pounding which transforms itself effortlessly into passages of flowing free-time. Like all of Hainos best work, the trio transcends any rock genre exercise to enter a non-idiomatic zone of ritual intensity, creating a music formed purely out of instrumental and group-mind possibility. Presented as four unedited excerpts salvaged from an epic show that lasted well over three hours, the sometimes raw nature of the recording only adds to its directness and harshly emotive quality." -Francis Plagne, Melbourne, November, 2011. "Design by Stephen OMalley (Sunn O)))) with high quality live shots by Ujin Matsuo and stunning images by Tokyo-based photographer and sound artist Shunichiro Okada." - Black Truffle.

http://www.fusetronsound.com/

Anyone Londoners seeing him at Oto, end of feb?

I can't come down this time sadly, but will be seeing him here in Glasgow the Sunday before...

http://arika.org.uk/events/episode-2-special-form-darkness/programme/keiji-haino

Last night...

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7043/6928039295_ce21e36e58_z.jpg
Keiji Haino at 'De Musicorum Infelicitate' by Walter Marchetti at Arika 12: Episode 2: A Special Form Of Darkness by krakow81

:-)

phew, totally forgot about this till now...it hasn't sold out.

Assuming it ws gd?

He doesn't play until Sunday. Last night was a great start, yes.

More Haino stalking got me this shot of him testing the acoustics of Tramway 1 (where he plays tonight), while awaiting Junko's performance...

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7054/6930932449_2ce732d7f9_z.jpg
Keiji Haino @ Arika 12: Episode 2: A Special Form Of Darkness by krakow81

Taking things to the next level, as real-life Keiji Haino meets my mini-Haino!!!

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7070/6933238405_e30eb2bb43_z.jpg
Keiji Haino meets mini-Haino at Arika 12: Episode 2: A Special Form Of Darkness by krakow81

have to admit I'm getting a bit tired of this guy's schtick, seen him several times now and every time it becomes more wearisome. also (although I like the photo above) it wouldn't hurt him to smile every now and then or just act like a normal person.

krakow, the keiji mini-me pic is sooo great!

his vocal only gig was INCREDIBLE last night - performing in almost total darkness and silence, only his shades and his white hair visible, flanked by two gigantic speaker stacks, incredible moments of stillness and then sudden aural violence, total mastery of atmosphere, space, dread, dynamics, range, variety (great audience, too, totally bought into the ritual-seance aspects of it!) - the best thing i can say is, didn't miss the guitar at all...

anagram, outwith performance he is very normal and smiles and has fun and everything - he thought the mini-Haino was hilarious and suggested posing for the photo with it!

Just booked for the vocal gig only perf :-)

After everything, it was absolutely incredible on Sunday night. He played in almost complete darkness, using four different microphones, set up in slightly different ways, with a few minimal effects. It was an amazingly intense, physical, varied, exploratory & even quite terrifying performance!

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7048/6788936746_fb0bfa10c4_z.jpg
Keiji Haino at Arika 12: Episode 2: A Special Form Of Darkness by krakow81

That is a 30 second long exposure at ISO 1600 by the way! It was properly dark!

He is totally a human being. Just an odd one.

Sat a few chairs along from him when Arthur Doyle played Instal. He spent most of the time cackling away. Haino that is. Actually Doyle too.

Great to finally see him! What I feel about Haino is what I guess yer stereotypical mom and dad feels about...Sinatra, or Nat King Cole.

The Cafe Oto perf wasn't in complete darkness so we could all see the crawling around.

Not much to Ward's excellent description - can I pick on variety because that is what really surprised me? Started as speaker base type effects, v 'trembly', then he started using some recorder device and overlayed min before sung part to create an ambience and then he turned the amp and feedback for the 'no wave' part of the show.

Some mean range, right there...certainly not missed the gtr. He was screeching and screaming as strongly in Watashi Dake 30 years ago!

This guy tho' was no wave before no wave tho'. First read about him in an article about psychedelic music from Japan but he 'developed' in a way that isn't v well known and scarcely documented into a kind of musician who is v virtuosic but can also display a naivety about sound and performance which is v art school. Not sure exactly where this comes from. Explains why I never saw him as much of an free improv guy (I know ppl in free improv get sniffy about this guy and I'm not surprised) as its so calculated.

I'm gonna see a few films by Shuji Terayama -- the Tate are runnng a season later this month -- I know that Rallizes, who have a more straighforwardly psych leanings but I think mine a lot of perf art too are part of a story here. Haino's appearance ws great timing.

Volcanic Tongue have apparently heard something about Fushitsusha coming to the UK in October, but didn't know what the story was.

Thanks to the realisation of my friend, I now suspect that they may be playing the 10th anniversary Supersonic festival in Birmingham - I sincerely hope so, but we shall see...

That'd be amazing.

I managed to pick up a very reasonably priced copy of the "Koko" CD a few weeks back. Along with "A Book Of Eternity Set Aflame". Been on a Haino bender again...

Wow, that's some luck on finding Koko! Was that in an actual record shop?

It's a shame that it is so rare and expensive to find, as I think it's fantastic! Sruthi Box 3'' similarly so.

I got it through an Ebay seller here in Germany. Paid pretty much normal CD price for it. Certainly nowhere near the prices on Discogs! And I got Book Of Eternity with it, which I'd somehow missed. All great stuff. I assume you have a copy of Koko - if not, I can send you one.

Thank you, most kind! I too was lucky on eBay a few years ago though and secured a copy in a batch of other more normal PSF titles - it is one of my true prizes & I will play it now in honour...

Hello. As Phil F said elsewhere, "Trailer for "The Raven," an amazing-looking Japanese documentary on Keiji Haino"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgVGriFcFn0

Further via Phil: "...it's premiering in Japan on July 7. No idea if it'll ever come here or hit DVD."

Hoping that they can show it at TUSK, perhaps.

Looking through the discog of Live Solo Haino item 3 is intriguing. I hunted down a snippet off Land of the Rising Noise and its got that intensity and reverb and some weird corrosive sound from his gtr I hadn't quite heard before.

The guy's vocal are tight as usual. Love anything he put out from '89 - '95 or thereabouts. Really the peak years.

Anyone heard that boot?

I've got to run right now, but I have that cassette (and the Land Of The Rising Noise CD)! I haven't heard them for some time, so I'll need to re-listen, but don't let me forget to get back to you.

Bought it at the height of my Haino collecting obsession.

(Just to refine the above: I would say I like almost anything, certainly almost all my faves are from that time)

Cheers! Sure someone on s**k has the whole thing, hard to get hold of the whole thing but this track will do for now.

Do have a re-listen and let me know.

Krakow - get back to me plz :)

Nazoranai show last night felt more like three solo Haino perfs melded together that just happened to have the same backing band of SOMA and Oren Ambarchi for them all. Roughly half hour segments first with noisebox/monosyth, then guitar, then just voice. Great stuff though O'Malley fiddled with his sound too much for my liking rather than playing.

looking forward to seeing seeming them tonight in glasgow (jealous of the londoners who get flower-corsano as the support) - be interesting to see if they do the same kind of set. have bought earplugs for my earplugs.

Birmingham not nearly as loud as I thought it would be if I'm honest. We had Nic Bullen supporting doing his latest material - a bit more Ghost Box live than I expected it would be.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9-v4d3RLmY

dunno if this was posted elsewhere, it's haino + drummer from ruins + acid mothers temple dude

https://youtu.be/_RiUkO7La3I

"OH DARN," he said, lying:

Black Editions announces the relaunch of Keiji Haino's own Purple Trap imprint with the release of My lord Music, I most humbly beg your indulgence in the hope that you will do me the honour of permitting this seed called Keiji Haino to be planted within you, a deluxe double album of haunting and darkly resonant hurdy gurdy music.

Release Date: March 14, 2022.

Ah cool. Just saw someone post the Bandcamp for it:

https://keijihaino.bandcamp.com/album/my-lord-music

Thought this was about this guy:

https://i3-img.prosieben.de/pis/ezone/3b52qgELBzZ_waV508e45AuVz6MKHLtoT3q_r9nA9uUYIc3UxR1RGpqKsyWXw_RJy8O8iNh2P7u1J22He1lwBQ0_oTEt6HPap_t-xxKqt2B28CSjv_8mfkROjB0GRMoN3HSOW2X93TWIF70qvEj1FIz8Vd2WSC3dfLUa-a94wi5kJ0_WWW9GVod2Eo8I5_E1348RgGU/profile:ezone-teaser620x348?source

fp

this sounds incredible

Actual Keiji Haino makes https://twitter.com/hardyguideyman redundant with album titles like that.

new [very long title] live recording is hitting the spot

The hurdy gurdy one?

yes that's the one

Thought this was about this guy:

🖼

Happy 70th Birthday to KEIJI HAINO! pic.twitter.com/3Yzu5aIAYQ

— Oren Ambarchi (@orenambarchi) May 3, 2022

I just want Keiji Haino to always keep making albums with SUMAC. The new one is incredible.

I wrote a sort of intro to his work a couple of months ago.

Keiji Haino has never been seen in public without gigantic, Miles-Davis-in-1969 sunglasses. He has never been seen in public in clothes that are not rigorously formal, beautifully tailored, and black from head to toe. He has never been seen in public in sneakers. He has never been seen in public with his waist-length hair (once a glossy black, now a shimmering gray-white) in a ponytail. When he enters a room, he brings the darkness with him, and the ambient volume seems to drop by five decibels. He is Keiji Haino, 100%, always.

😮 https://t.co/nfQ1M4Kpkj pic.twitter.com/gvOtsKRqMX

— Oren Ambarchi (@orenambarchi) March 24, 2024

Roger Daltrey?