Nijiumu – Era Of Sad Wings (1993)

Country: Japan

Tracklist

1. Untitled 02:39
2. Untitled 16:10
3. Untitled 06:52
4. Untitled 05:13
5. Untitled 04:54
6. Untitled 09:30
7. Untitled 05:07
8. Untitled 04:48
9. Untitled 06:52
10. Untitled 03:56

Keiji Haino (灰野 敬二 Haino Keiji) born May 3, 1952 in Chiba, Japan, and currently residing in Kawagoe, 

is a Japanese musician and singer-songwriter whose work has included rock, free improvisation, 

noise music, percussion, psychedelic music, minimalism and drone music.
Haino's initial artistic outlet was theater, inspired by the radical writings of Antonin Artaud.

An epiphanic moment came when he heard The Doors' "When The Music's Over" 

and changed course towards music creating the improvised rock band Lost Aaraaf in 1970.

In the mid 1970s, having left Lost Aaraaf, he collaborated with psychedelic multi-instrumentalist Magical Power Mako.
Other groups Haino has formed include rock duo Fushitsusha in 1978, Aihiyo in 1998,

Vajra (with underground folk singer Kan Mikami and drummer Toshiaki Ishizuka),

Knead (with the avant-prog outfit Ruins), Sanhedolin (with Yoshida Tatsuya of Ruins and Mitsuru Nasuno of Korekyojinn, Altered States and Ground Zero) and a solo project called Nijiumu.
Nijiumu (滲有無) featured Keiji Haino, Asahito Nanjo (who left in 1990), Takashi Matsuoka and Shizuo Uchida.
They created mysterious soundscapes mixing acoustic instruments, electronic treatments and Haino's vocals.
Asahito Nanjo (member of High Rise, Toho Sara) speaks about it in an interview:
"Nijiumu concentrate on creating an atmosphere. There was no clear concept,

sometimes we wouldn't even talk about what we were going to do.

Nijiumu is like Fushitsusha in that it was started with the aim of doing something that no one else had thought of.

It doesn't have any clear philosophy behind it."
Haino has also collaborated with many artists, including Faust, Boris, Derek Bailey,

Bill Laswell, Stephen O'Malley, Jim O'Rourke, John Zorn and John Duncan.
Haino cites a broad range of influences, including troubadour music, Marlene Dietrich,

Iannis Xenakis, Blue Cheer, Syd Barrett, Charlie Parker and Butoh dancing.
NHK, Japan's national broadcaster, banned him from broadcast from 1973 to 2013.
He has been active since the 1970s and continues to record regularly and in new styles.

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