keiji haino playing w. tony conrad in glasgow
 

saturday october 14th at the Arches as part of Instal fest

"anyone else here going?" he asked. he could feel his testicles tingling w. anticipation...

That's a bloody weird pairing! I'm not quite sure how that's going to work.

EDIT - Mind you, I'm assuming that it would be a violin + guitar combination, and that's not really a safe assumption to make, seeing as Keiji Haino's one of the parties involved.

"i'm assuming it will be guitar/violin, at least that's what i inferred from the brochure that arrived thru my door this fine morning."

but he wasn't 100% sure. this chasm of uncertainty, however acute, lingered at the back of his mind, threatened to split open at any moment

"apparently tony has been to japan and played with keiji at keiji's house. the only being to have heard this will be keiji's cat. i think it will be a decent pairing. tony will create a wall of drone for keiji to splatter his guitar pyrotechnics across."

he stopped to think about what he was saying. it sounded clumsy and psuedo-bohemian. he decided to shut up for the minute. his ass was uncomfortable on the wooden chair he sat on and the CD he had been listening to, "Lee Ranaldo w. Birchville Cat Motel" had just come to an end.. "what to listen to next?" he wondered to himself aloud

wow.. Tony Conrad and Kaiji Haino on one stage !
Sounds ace
Unfortunately i missed them both when they played here this summer.

If i had the chance i´d go.
*lucky bastardos*

To me that sounds like Haino would be improvising along to a drone. How on earth is he going to acheive that and it not just be a solo improvisation backed by a drone? I suppose any sort of sound can give inspiration to an improviser, but a drone?

I'll be intrigued to hear how it turns out.

That sounds like a once in a lifetime thing.

Perhaps Haino will play hurdy gurdy? Or those Chaos pad things he's so fond of these days? Perhaps Conrad'll bust out some beatbox action while Haino busts some phat rhymes. That'd be ace.

they've played together before and i've got a recording, i'll upload it for you all later.

Ahem, Indian music, anyone?


Seriously though; I find having a drone in place to be infinitely preferable and far more improvisationally inspirational than dead air most of the time. I sometimes like to use my friend's "Raagini" (a tanpura machine that produces drones) during solo guitar performances. It's definitely nice to have it there, and gives a surprising amount of textural stimuli to respond to while still maintaining almost total freedom within its key.

I wish I could see this show.

A drone is a drone is a drone, but you have to remember that not all drones are the same. A lot of improvisers are rubbish when they have drones, some of them are very good. I try to avoid them because it's very easy for me to slip into endless eastern scales, and I'm not the most modal of players.

Mr Clone is right though. Indian music indeed. Drones don't necessarily mean static lines.

hey guess what, it's on dime
http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-d....php?id=117110

and on youtube (low quality though)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD2j5p1bTPI

i was there. life-affirming show. my only gripe was haino not playing enough guitar but when he did pick up his axe, we were afforded a glimpse of infinity...

I hanker to see him do a totally non-guitar show. I've seen him thrice now, and his guitaring is awesomeness beyond awesomeness... but I would like to suffer at the hands of his hurdy-gurdy. Or perhaps a solo percussion. Greedy bastard that I am.

it was mostly vocal accompaniement to Conrad he was doing... with liberal doses of theremin noise... astounding stuff...

were you there glice?

What about Mr Conrad, what was he doing?

he was faffing about incompetently

just kidding...
he was mostly going for his trademark monolithic violin drone... he was also playing about with some broken drum thing, attacking it with a bow making it squeak...

Hmmm. I've only seen TC once, and he was doing the violin drone thing interspersed with snatches of a "poem" for John Fahey. It put me off ever seeing him again, it was so excruciating.

haha, i know where you're coming from...
i saw him at subcurrent. an hour and a half of drone. first half hour was okay and then it was like... okay... we get it...

then wolf eyes played after him and after their set finished, everyone was yelling for an encore and I shouted
"come on, we hadda sit thru fucking tony conrad!"
i'm sure i saw john olsen smirk

I would rep you, but, well, you know...

it's okay, i understand

Nope. I saw him in Newcastle last year doing the four-hour monster show, which was the best show I've ever seen. I contend that there is no-one else in the world who could play for that length of time and still merit an encore. I also saw the two London shows this year, which were also awesome, but not quite as monolithic. If I had a criticism of the London shows, it would be that they were too short, which is the best kind of criticism methinks.

I'm quite enjoying this live show, I'm about 20 minutes in. Conrad's starting to come to the forefront a bit more. To be fair though, it could quite easily be Haino with his loops... it's very much Haino's gig so far. Then again, he played with one of the most dominating drummers playing at the moment (Corsano) and left him for dead. He's just phenomenal this man. In ancient times they'd start religions for him.

there were moments when Conrad seemed a bit unsure of what to do... at least that's how it seemed... Haino was very much at the forefront throughout...