***BACK IN STOCK!!! Black Editions present the first vinyl reissue of KEIJI HAINO's stunning debut album Watashi Dake?, originally released in 1981.?! This first ever edition released outside of Japan features the artist's originally intended metallic gold and silver jacket artwork.?! Over the last fifty years few musicians or performers have created as monumental and uncompromising a body of work as that of Keiji Haino.?! Through a vast number of recordings and performances, Haino has staked out a ground all his own, creating a language of unparalleled intensity that defies any simple classification.?! For all this, his 1981 debut album Watashi Dake?! has remained enigmatic.?! Originally released in a small edition by the legendary Pinakotheca label, the album was heard by only a select few in Japan and far fewer overseas.?! Original vinyl copies became impossibly rare and highly sought after the world over.?! Watashi Dake?!
LP $31.85
07/14/2017
***The first vinyl issue of KEIJI HAINO's Milky Way.?! Originally released as a limited CD in Japan by the short lived Mom 'N' Dad Productions in 1993, this release documents a blistering live performance recorded in Kyoto in 1973, five years before the formation of the first line-up of FUSHITSUSHA, and eight years before Haino's first solo album.?! Working with a mysterious set-up including primitive electronics, homemade acoustic instruments, piano and voice, Haino lets loose a single 48-minute psychedelic maelstrom, marrying the immersive echo-fields of kosmische music to the rough and ready hands-on feel of classic 1960s live electronics à la MEV or Robert Ashley's Wolfman.?! Despite the absence of guitar, this recording clearly lays the groundwork for the epic blowouts which were to make Haino's name in years to come, building up to a point of almost unbearable intensity in its final minutes as Haino's voice wails over a wall of distorted DIY electronics.?!
LP $27.85
12/02/2016
CD $11.00
01/08/2001
2XCD $11.00
01/08/2001