TIP OF THE TONGUE 02 NOVEMBER 2008
Keiji Haino
Koitsukara Usetaitameno Hakarigoto
PSF PSFD-8029
CD
OUT OF STOCK!
New much-anticipated instalment in Keiji Haino's on-going investigation into electrified hurdy-gurdy as mind-flailing sonic reducer. This one feels like more of a rapprochement with the traditional sound of the instrument itself, with a richer, more traditionally articulated sound across five tracks. There are a bunch of different strategies at work, with swarms of dense drone giving way to spidery, micro-orchestral passages that cross silence with tiny webs of lucid harmonic detail, epic, jarring string work that sounds like a fucked and free take on the viol music of William Lawes and cranky, tactile folk-melodies slowly torn apart by roughhouse string sonorities and wheezing overtones. Outside of his guitar wielding persona and the zoned medieval drones of Nijiumu, Haino's hurdy-gurdy material makes for some of his most immersive and psychedelic work and this is easily his most mesmerising future-primitive marriage of hurdy-gurdy and electricity to date. Comes with excellent English liner notes by Biba Kopf. Highly recommended.
