January 28, 2012
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Video: In really unofficial news, the Poison Pie Publishing House,
who kindly hosts "An Unofficial Keiji Haino Website" has released a video for the song "2 To Mugen No Torihiki"
performed by Derek Bailey (guitar) and Keiji Haino (voice) taken from the album Songs released by
Incus Records in 2000. The video is posted
here.
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January 28, 2012
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News: In the past year or so, Haino has reformed Fushitsusha, with Mitsuru Nasuno on bass and Ikuro Takahashi on drums.
Ikuro Takahashi was the drummer on four Fushitsusha albums released between 1998 and 2000 as well as the drummer on both Aihiyo albums.
Mitsuro Nasuno (aka Mitsuru Natsuno) has recorded four collaborative releases with Haino from 2004 to 2008
(three of them including Tatsuya Yoshida of, among other things, RUINS).
Mitsuro Nasuno replaces former Fushitsusha bassist, Yasushi Ozawa, who passed away in 2008.
Recent performances have included a January 14, 2011 show at Club Quattro in Osaka and a January 27, 2012 show at UFO Club in Tokyo.
A flyer from the first show and pictures from the most recent show are in the visuals section.
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January 16, 2012
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Visuals:
Added a new photo of Haino live from Hiromi Kudo, who maintains a Japanese language blog, with regular Haino
live photos at this link.
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January 16, 2012
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Releases in 2011:
For those keeping track at home, it appears that the full slate of Haino releases for the calendar year 2011 rounds out at three.
- Ambarchi, Oren & Jim O'Rourke & Keiji Haino - In a Flash (Black Truffle Records/medama records, BT05/mr02, March, 2011, 2xlp)
- Keiji Haino - Un autre chemin vers l'Ultime (Prele Records, prl007, June, 2011, cd)
- Various Artists - The Devil in Love (Malört Förlag, MF-01, November, 2011, 2xcd) (w/Haino)
If there are missing items in this list, please email me.
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December 9, 2011
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Obituary:
I discovered today that Hans Reichel of FMP and daxophone fame passed away November 22, 2011.
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.
In honor of his life, I post links to 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.
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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