anyone familiar? Listening to them brings out so many intense emotions. I would love to see them live.
for lack of a better term, i'd call it noise. "Hijokaidan (非常階段, lit. "emergency stairway") is a Japanese noise and free improvisation group with a revolving lineup that has ranged from two members to as many as fourteen in its early days. The group is the project of guitarist Yoshiyuki "Jojo" Hiroshige (Japanese; 広重嘉之, JOJO広重) its one constant member, who is head & owner of the Osaka-based Alchemy Records. Other regulars include Jojo's wife Junko and Toshiji Mikawa (also of Incapacitants). The group began at the very end of the 1970s as a performance art-based group whose anarchic shows would often involve destruction of venues and audio equipment, food and garbage being thrown around, and on-stage urination. As the group's lineup changed over time, their focus became less performance-based and more musically based, fine-tuning their sound into a dense wall of white noise created by each member making as much of a racket as humanly possible."
^Ah yes. I thought I recognised the name. I havent heard any of their stuff, but im a big fan of Japanoise. Keiji Haino and Fushitsusha are my favourite. Boris and Acid mothers temple are pretty good too. Perhaps you could recomend me a Hijokaidan album/s?
I lovelovelove Boris and AMT. Fushitsusha is pretty good too. The only Hijokaidan album I actually have is Tapes. It's way more harsh noise type stuff than any of the above bands, but there's still definitely some sort of rhythm to it.
