Keiji Haino & Derek Bailey - Songs

 

Recorded in 1996, released by Bailey's Incus label in 2000. While their previous album was a guitar duo, this one has just Bailey playing guitar and Haino only singing. 

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Keiji Haino & Derek Bailey - Drawing Close, Attuning - The Respective Signs of Order and Chaos

 

The Japanese label Tokuma released four massive Fushitsusha albums in the late 1990s, then doubled down with four more Keiji Haino albums: two solo albums, one album by Haino's cover band Aihiyo and one guitar duo album with the legendary Derek Bailey. This is the Haino/Bailey team-up. You know you need it. 

drawing close yadda yadda

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Fushitsusha - A Little Longer Thus

 

Same line-up that recorded A Death Never to Be Complete, but very different from that album's ecstasy overload. Unrelentingly tense.

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Fushitsusha - The Wisdom Prepared

 

A single, full-bore blast of impossibly dense rock roar. 

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Fushitsusha - The Time Is Nigh

 

It sure is! Haino and Ozawa with drummer Jun Kosugi (of Shizuka), four songs of black-hole psychedelia. Another album from Fushisusha's inexplicable run of major-label CDs from the late 1990s.

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Fushitsusha - A Death Never To Be Complete

In 1997 & 1998, Japanese major label Tokuma released eight CDs by Keiji Haino. There were two solo albums, one duo with Derek Bailey, one by Haino's cover band Aihiyo (a trio with Masami Kawaguchi of Broom Dusters/Miminokoto and legendary drummer Ikuro Takahashi) and four albums by the mighty Fushitsusha. Fusitsusha's membership since its inception in the late 70s has been more volatile than The Fall's, so it's worth mentioning that the line-up for this album was Haino with Takahashi and bassist Yasushi Ozawa, a name you might recognize from his work with Marginal Consort, East Bionic Simphonia, and Machinegun Tango (an early band with Tori Kudo and Tamio Shirashi, though sadly only one recorded song from 1980 has surfaced). A Death Never to Be Complete is, in my opinion, the very best Fushitsusha album. You may disagree, but then you'd be wrong.
 

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