Keiji Haino - Live at Cafe OTO

28th Feb 2012 in Events

The dark enigma of the Japanese avant-garde returns to Cafe OTO for another two day residency after last year's heady two days of hallowed blues, noise assualt and spry improvisation. This visit promises to reveal even more of Haino's multifaceted musical enquiries.

Keiji Haino's 30-year career has encompassed a dizzying range of approaches from wild, guitar-led ensemble rock and near-Neolithic drumming; live electronics, untutored explorations of lute and flute, to voice experiments and extended performances for gamelan and other percussion. He has also collaborated widely with the likes of Derek Bailey, Merzbow, Jim O'Rourke and Tony Conrad. Throughout, Haino has retained a visionary focus upon temporary suspension through noise (and silence) whilst refining a mercurial, highly distinctive method and an arrestingly dramatic on-stage presence that borrows the raiments of performance art.

This residency is a Miles of Smiles/OTO projects co-production.