Hijokaidan
Sign in to saveis 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 , its one constant member, who is head and owner of the Osaka-based Alchemy Records. Other regulars include Jojo's wife Junko and Toshiji Mikawa (also of Incapacitants).
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- musical group
- Genre
- noise music
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Movement
- Japanoise
- Image
- Hijokaidan-2.jpg
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- Commons category
- Hijokaidan
- inception
- 1979-00-00
- location of formation
- Osaka
- start of work period
- 1979-00-00
- name
- 非常階段
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Pre-Hijōkaidan
- Corroded Marie
- Alchemy Records
- Discography
- References
- Notes
- External links
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 , its one constant member, who is head and 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 noise.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hijokaidan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.