Interview on Japan Times
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/...boy-right-end/

LA and NYC shows soon, hope someone doc-u's them

This is happening in Japan tomorrow:


There is a raw video of MoE/Haino on Youtube from when the awesome norwegians toured Japan previously:
https://youtu.be/pXXxymKu6is

Mette Rasmussen is a sax monster, seeing her play with Haino would be a real treat.

I've experienced the MoE/Rasmussen configuration a few times when they toured Mexico back in December of last year. Always an absolute blast. Their album "Tolerancia Picante" testifies to that. This show in Japan (I think) is an improvisation party with all the musicians performing as a quintet (The Skaset, Guro Moe, Mette Rasmussen, Keiji Haino & Masataka Fujikake). Guro and Mette just played as a trio with Yoshimio of OOIOO/Boredoms a few days ago.The Skaset performed as a duo with Painjerk. That should have been really nifty, too.

The Mette Rasmussen & Tashi Dorji album on Feeding Tube is awesome too, it's also available as a DL on bandcamp. I got a tape she did with Jooklo Duo that is also excellent, but that Rasmussen/Dorji.... holy shit!

There is "To The Animal Kingdom" as well which consists of Mette & Tashi Dorji plus Tyler Damon on the drums. So great, if not quite as raw as the Feeding Tube release. I think you'd enjoy that one too if you aren't familiar with it. Both of those were mastered by Lasse Marhaug, so you can appreciate the mayhem (and beauty) with some special clarity.

I do love the Jooklo Duo/Rasmussen cassette, and would have loved if they had released a recording of the Jooklo Moe Rasmussen collaboration which took place at Festival Music Unlimited 2016. Thank God for unofficial recordings, though.

I picked up a copy of the Ultra Eczema release, "Bazuinschal", when Mette came to Mexico with MoE. The cover looked straight away as a Dennis Tyfus artwork, and I thought it sort of depicted Mette's playing very consistently: It is a drawing of her playing the saxophone and the sound coming out of it is presented as some sort of human(oid) screaming entity.

MoE + Mette Rasmussen's new record, "Tolerancia Picante", is a fucking slayer, but I think the live show has taken things even further judging by what I witnessed during their tour of Mexico not so long ago. I hope some tapers from Japan have recorded these recent shows. It all has mutated into something even greater and more powerful than what's on the album.

Anyway, I dare to speculate and dream of a collaborative record between MoE and Keiji Haino. Wouldn't that be so cool?

Keiji Haino, Jim O’Rourke, and Oren Ambarchi team up for succinctly titled new album on Black Truffle
https://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/ke...-black-truffle

recording from a set back in 2018 at urbanguild in kyoto, was at this show and stoked to get a recording, one of his more 'advanced' electronics shows of the ones I've seen, advanced being a byword for universe-swallowing, and purchases go to keeping urbanguild open which is a vote for humanity

https://keepurbanguild.bandcamp.com/album/--5






also this once passed me by from last year: his set in shenzhen from a few years back now, replete with a fucking breathtaking version of koko, both sides featuring a structure of black hole electronics into guitar flexing.

https://oldheavenbooks.bandcamp.com/...g-of-blackness

Thank you!

That Urban Guild one is fantastic. Haven't listened to the other yet.

Keiji Haino & Guro Moe's "Drums & Octobass" is released officially today through Guro's label Conradsound. Two editions available: The CD includes a really long track, unavailable anywhere else. It's all improvisation ranging from the beautiful and subtle all the way through the really wild. It all sounds really crisp and every sonic detail could be appreciated. It seems originally it was intended for drums and octobass as the elements of this collaboration but just as things were being recorded, interactions with other instruments (keyboard and harmonium, for instance) were added as they caught the attention of Haino-san. Vocals are very prominent and really impactful, too.
https://conradsound.bandcamp.com/album/drums-octobass

Artwork by Aaron Turner:


Guro Moe's message about this album on its release date:
https://moepages.bandcamp.com/commun...=1323215&st=sm