Keiji Haino Solo Album Poll -- I Said, This Is The Son Of Pollhilism

Just ordered the following from PSF, thanks to some US $'s earned to my paypal account:

PSFD-7
Keiji Haino / Nijiumu $18

PSFD-23
Keiji Haino / Affection $18

PSFD-38
Keiji Haino / Watashi-Dake? $18

PSFD-8014
Keiji Haino / To start with, let's remove the colour! $18

PSFD-8020
Keiji Haino / Uchu ni Karamitsuiteru Waga Itami $18

PSFD-8021
Keiji Haino / Konokehai fujirareteru hajimarini $18

Can't wait for this bunch to arrive. I'd always held off on the PSF ones, as they're relatively straight forward to get hold of compared to some of the others.

hey the best two won!

I'm sorta partial to 'I Said This Is the Son of Nihilism,' 'Affection,' and 'Saying I Love You I Continue to Curse Myself.' But they're all worth a listen at least. Haino never ceases to amaze me with the ability to project his essence through any instrument or device he touches. Hurdy-gurdy, theremin, percussion, what-have-you. He come through.

nicely said, IS. only time ive seen keiji live (in a duo w/ tony conrad) the most fearsome instr he played was the theremin, so loud it made the soles of my feet vibrate, seriously! those hurdy-gurdy albs on PSF, especially the first one, are fuckin' central pieces of the totality of the expression - nobody seems to get DEEPER into a zone (of silence/stillness/loudness/intensity) than haino

Thanks WF. I've never had the pleasure of seeing him live, but I keep hoping.

I agree with you about the hurdy-gurdy things and the one on sruthi (struti? tuti-fruiti?) box is also an amazing drone piece with plenty of interesting dynamic decorations. I think it was called 'Koko.' The main one I continue to have trouble with is the disc he did with classical guitar. Somehow it doesn't grab me like some of the others. Not bad mind you, but prolly the last Haino I'd pick to listen to at any given time.

those hurdy-gurdy albs on PSF, especially the first one, are fuckin' central pieces of the totality of the expression

^^^^^^^^

The hurdy-gurdy albums are incredible.

Keiji Haino is reported to have formed an R&B covers group, who performed at his annual end of year show in Tokyo. The five piece group, Hardy Soul, with Haino on vocals and guitar, performed a set including covers of "When A Man Loves A Woman", "Lucille", "Land Of 1000 Dances", "In The Midnight Hour" and more.

http://thewire.co.uk/news/28326/keiji-haino-forms-rnb-group_performs-little-richard_wilson-pickett-covers

Hah this almost trumps the Jandek interview news. What a nutty day of weirdo music news.

There's a YouTube clip of the "R&B" group. It bears the same resemblance to R&B that Aihiyo (his last cover band) bore to rock 'n' roll. It kinda sounds like Les Rallizes, actually.

Cool, will try to go check it out. Still bizarre news. "Hardy Soul"!

IIRC Haino talked abt his love for Wilson Pickett in an old Wire Invisible Jukebox

definitely liking that youtube clip. anyone know what it's a cover of?

https://twitter.com/frozenreeds/status/594954906001416192/photo/1

http://i4.minus.com/ifuF7Ov9yF8yt.jpg

he's doing a dj set on nts today:

https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/keiji-haino-21st-may-2019

Thanks for the perfectly timed tip! Listening now and it's a very promising start.

That was excellent. Do NTS release playlists for these?

if the dj gives them the playlist, they normally add it to the webpage when the show gets uploaded (usually 1-2 days after initial broadcast)

Fingers crossed then. Thanks.

The Meaning of Blackness is a typically awkward English title, but it’s a fine, varied solo live album and honestly one of the best Haino-related releases I’ve heard in more than a decade (I’m not as much of a connoisseur as others itt, however). Oh, and it comes with a new version of ‘Koko’.

The Meaning of Blackness is a typically awkward English title

Give the man a break, he managed to not make it a novella-length title this time! ;)

You weren't wrong btw! This is one of the best of his 00s output (though I've not heard all of them, admittedly), been really enjoying this one lately.

The version of "Koko" is on YouTube and it's amazing. I might need to buy this record.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QloLYsK5v9A

Otm, it's amazing.

Give the man a break, he managed to not make it a novella-length title this time! ;)

I don't know if it's the full title or a two-line poem but for the album's Bandcamp page he couldn't resist the call of elongation:

The Meaning of Blackness More Decorous than Duty
Having become faster than everything A smile that was never birthed into the light

Congratulations, I played myself lol

Hearing Haino in English (about 6 minutes into the first track) was genuinely shocking.

Haino is 69 today. Feel like now's the time to talk about all three times I saw him perform.

The first was two days before Christmas 1991 at CBGB. Haino played a solo guitar set on a bill that also included OLD and UFO Or Die. John Zorn put it together, and at the end of Haino's set he came out and they performed a duo that was skull-crackingly loud. His guitar sounded like a thunderstorm, and all Zorn could do to pierce the wall was screech at the very top of the alto's range.

A couple of years later, maybe 1995, I went to the Knitting Factory and saw him do a solo percussion show. He started out doing soft, ritualistic stuff with tiny gongs, like some kind of monk or something, but by the end he was screaming and leaping into the wall with a tambourine in each hand and pieces of tambourine were flying across the room.

In 2000 I went to Tonic to see what was billed as a solo set, using electronics and hurdy-gurdy, to be followed by a Fushitsusha performance. It turned into a seamless three-hour experience that was one of the most incredible things I've ever seen/heard. There was theremin. There was hurdy-gurdy. There were half-hour slabs of unbelievably loud doomprov. He even played a song I recognized from one of the first two Fushitsusha live albums!

I love Haino. Long may he roar.