(1958February 2, 2008
) was a Japanese
musician
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and
sound engineer
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, best known as the
bassist
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in
Keiji Haino
Keiji Haino ( ''Haino Keiji''; born May 3, 1952) is a Japanese musician and singer-songwriter whose work has included rock, free improvisation, noise music, percussion, psychedelic music, minimalism and drone music. He has been active since the ...
's rock group
Fushitsusha
Fushitsusha (不失者) is a Japanese rock band specialising in experimental and psychedelic rock genres. The band consists of electric guitarist and singer Keiji Haino, and a shifting cast of complementary musicians. The group released the majo ...
. He was also a member of the
free improvisation
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group
Marginal Consort, and in the past he played with
East Bionic Symphonia and Machine-Gun Tango (with
Tori Kudo
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).
Discography
*''East Bionic Symphonia'' (Kojima, 1976)
*V.A., ''Aiyoku jinmin juji gekijo'' (Pinakotheca, 1980)
*''Collective Improvisation'' (PSF, 1998)
*''Marginal Consort'' 4CD (Improvised Music from Japan, 2007)
*''Early Works of Satoshi Sonoda 1977→1978 / Memories of Yasushi Ozawa'' (PSF, 2009)
with Fushitsusha
*Untitled (PSF, 1989)
*Untitled (PSF, 1991)
*
Allegorical Misunderstanding
''Allegorical Misunderstanding'' is a 1993 album by the band Fushitsusha. The album was produced by John Zorn and was the first studio album from the band.
Critical reception
In a review for AllMusic, John Dougan called the album "a reserved outi ...
(Avant, 1993)
*Pathetique
lso known as Hisou(PSF, 1994)
*The Caution Appears (Les Disques de soleil, 1995)
*Purple Trap: The Wound That Was Given Birth To Must Be Bigger Than The Wound That Gave Birth (Blast First, 1996)
*A Death Never To Be Complete (Tokuma, 1997)
*The Time is Nigh (Tokuma, 1997)
*Gold Blood (Charnel, 1998)
*A Little Longer Thus (Tokuma, 1998)
*The Wisdom Prepared (Tokuma, 1998)
*Withdrawe, This Sable Disclosure ere Devot'd (Victo, 1998)
*I Saw It! That Which Before I Could Only Sense (Paratactile, 2000)
*Origin's Hesitation (PSF, 2001)
References
*Interview. ''Taajii'', issue 1, 1996
*Interview (as a member of Fushitsusha). ''Opprobrium'', issue 3, November 1996
External links
Interview with Ozawa as a member of Fushitsusha
1958 births
2008 deaths
20th-century Japanese musicians
Place of birth missing
20th-century Japanese male musicians
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