The legendary forty-year public radio ban
Chapter 1

The birth of a sonic ritualist

Chapter 2

Fushitsusha: Deconstructing the rock trio

Chapter 3

The physical ritual and the black uniform

Chapter 4

A global shadow: Collaborative cross-pollination

YOUR GOAL

Master of The sound of absolute darkness with Keiji Haino

Ch 1 · The birth of a sonic ritualist
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yuki The NHK broadcast ban on Japanese underground musician Keiji Haino

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yuki Keiji Haino

Forty years banned, forty years banned, They couldn't stop the noise!

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A musician was banned from Japanese airwaves for 40 years just for screaming.

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yuki Vocalist Keiji Haino pushed extreme performance boundaries in the band Lost Aaraaff.

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The legendary forty-year public radio ban

yuki An all-black silhouette with long straight hair stands against a warm background.

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The extreme vocal boundaries of Lost Aaraaff

yuki A dark silhouette with long hair clutches a guitar amidst vintage tube amplifiers.

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Little Black Drone
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yuki Tune the feedback drone to discover how Keiji Haino shaped Japanese experimental noise music.

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Fun Fact

The forty-year ban: Japan's national broadcaster NHK banned Keiji Haino from their airwaves for forty years starting in 1973 due to his radical vocals.

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Glossary
ritualist (noun)
A person who practices or advocates ritualism. Keiji Haino adopted this approach in 1970, inspired by Antonin Artaud and the band The Doors.

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Gossip

Which legendary experimental music pioneer's style would you want to experience live?

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Quiz

Why was Keiji Haino banned from broadcasting on Japan's national network NHK for forty years starting in 1973?

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yuki How Jim Morrison and radical theatre inspired Japanese musician Keiji Haino.

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How does Keiji Haino philosophically view the concept of darkness and the color black in his music?

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yuki Keiji Haino uses darkness as a welcoming space for his music.

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In which Japanese prefecture was the experimental music legend Keiji Haino born in 1952?

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In 1970, Keiji Haino joined his first major avant-garde rock group as a vocalist. What was the name of this band?

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Which 19th-century French writer's radical ideas about theatre inspired Keiji Haino's early performance style?

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Which American rock band's song 'When The Music's Over' convinced Keiji Haino to pursue music instead of theater?

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Beside the electric guitar, which medieval European string instrument does Keiji Haino frequently use to create acoustic drone sounds?

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Which American blues pioneer, known for primitive and raw acoustic blues, is cited by Keiji Haino as a major musical influence?

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