whelanslive
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"the greatest rock band on the planet... At this point in time I think it’s safe to say that no one else has so successfully and rigorously disinterred and interrogated the basic tenets of rock music as Fushitsusha and to think that at 60 years old Haino is still making the most radical and searching rock music of anyone’s career is a tribute to his commitment to the specifics of vision and his belief in the potential of the form. From where I’m sitting it feels like the whole history of rock music has led up to this" - David Keenan
Whelanslive present
Fushitsusha
Tuesday October 9th
The Village, Wexford St
Tickets €18.50 + booking fee available from www.wavtickets.ie and www.tickets.ie
Keiji Haino has been at the forefront of the Japanese avant-garde music scene for four decades. A captivating solo performer, he has played two sold out residencies at cafe oto that have demonstrated his versatility - from fleet fingered duo encounters with Peter Brötzmann and Steve Noble to the insane dynamic range of his solo vocal incantations. We've always wanted to work with Haino to present some of more adventurous rock-informed projects but needed a more expansive space to accommodate it. It was some sweet syncronicity that our discovery of Hackney's magnificent Round Chapel coincided with Haino's reinstigation of Fushitsusha - his most potent realisation of rock music's primal energy and radical potential.
FUSHITSUSHA
Keiji Haino's extensive career has encompassed a dizzying range of approaches from wild, guitar-led ensemble rock and near-Neolithic drumming; live electronics, untutored explorations of lute and flute, to voice experiments and extended performances for gamelan and other percussion. He has also collaborated widely with the likes of Derek Bailey, Merzbow, Jim O'Rourke and Tony Conrad. Throughout, Haino has retained a visionary focus upon temporary suspension through noise (and silence) whilst refining a mercurial, highly distinctive method and an arrestingly dramatic on-stage presence. In Fushitsusha he is joined by original Fushitsusha/Kousokuya drummer Ikuro Takahashi and bassist Mitsuru Nasuno (who Haino also plays with in Seijaku). Their disc Hikari to Nazukeyo was one of the most hotly anticipating releases of 2012.
Whelanslive present
Fushitsusha
Tuesday October 9th
The Village, Wexford St
Tickets €18.50 + booking fee available from www.wavtickets.ie and www.tickets.ie
Keiji Haino has been at the forefront of the Japanese avant-garde music scene for four decades. A captivating solo performer, he has played two sold out residencies at cafe oto that have demonstrated his versatility - from fleet fingered duo encounters with Peter Brötzmann and Steve Noble to the insane dynamic range of his solo vocal incantations. We've always wanted to work with Haino to present some of more adventurous rock-informed projects but needed a more expansive space to accommodate it. It was some sweet syncronicity that our discovery of Hackney's magnificent Round Chapel coincided with Haino's reinstigation of Fushitsusha - his most potent realisation of rock music's primal energy and radical potential.
FUSHITSUSHA
Keiji Haino's extensive career has encompassed a dizzying range of approaches from wild, guitar-led ensemble rock and near-Neolithic drumming; live electronics, untutored explorations of lute and flute, to voice experiments and extended performances for gamelan and other percussion. He has also collaborated widely with the likes of Derek Bailey, Merzbow, Jim O'Rourke and Tony Conrad. Throughout, Haino has retained a visionary focus upon temporary suspension through noise (and silence) whilst refining a mercurial, highly distinctive method and an arrestingly dramatic on-stage presence. In Fushitsusha he is joined by original Fushitsusha/Kousokuya drummer Ikuro Takahashi and bassist Mitsuru Nasuno (who Haino also plays with in Seijaku). Their disc Hikari to Nazukeyo was one of the most hotly anticipating releases of 2012.
