Haino, Keiji & Sumac: American Dollar Bill - Keep Facing Sideways

Keiji Haino & Sumac: American Dollar Bill - Keep Facing Sideways - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

American Dollar Bill - Keep Facing Sideways

Artist:

Keiji Haino & Sumac

Label:

Thrill Jockey

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

790377046328

Genre:

Rock

Sub Genre:

Heavy Metal

Release Date:

2018-02-23

Number of Discs:

1

Japan's fearless multi-instrumentalist and cultural provocateur Keiji Haino has made a career out of his free-form musical improvisations and diverse collaborations. Whether deconstructing American blues to a few rogue notes hanging across chasms of empty space in his solo endeavors, sparring with the nebulous fringes of psychedelia in Fushitsusha, or teaming up with musicians like Faust, Boris, Jim O'Rourke, Stephen O'Malley, John Zorn, and Peter Brötzmann for fleeting aural experiments. Haino's work is never pre-planned or structured, but rather a completely spontaneous exploration of chemistry, texture, and dynamics.SUMAC's tenure is much younger than Haino's, though guitarist/vocalist Aaron Turner has covered a similarly large swath of musical territory across numerous projects and collaborations, from the sedated drones of recent projects with Daniel Menche and William Fowler Collins to the modern compositions of Mamiffer and all the way back to the restless evolutions of post-metal stalwarts ISIS. With his cohorts Nick Yacyshyn (Baptists, Erosion) on drums and Brian Cook (Russian Circles) on bass, Turner has dissolved the rigid forms of heavy music, searching for a balance between disciplined precision and unhinged musical barbarism, crafting music that vacillates between meticulously detailed instrumentation and uninhibited forays into oblique abstraction.For American Dollar Bill - Keep Facing Sideways, You're Too Hideous To Look At Face On, Keiji Haino and SUMAC met up in Tokyo's Goksound recording studio to track a series of unrehearsed, completely non-premeditated sessions. Captured across several reels of tape, the collaboration harnessed Haino's tension-inducing use of empty space while pushing SUMAC's dissident metal vocabulary. Throughout the course of it's hour-plus length, American Dollar Bill pushes and pulls at the strictures of metal and bends the stylistic formalities of improvised music to create a sonic purge unencumbered by convention.1. American Dollar Bill - Keep Facing Sideways, You're Too Hideous To Look At Face On2. What Have I Done? (I Was Reeling In Something White And I Became Able To Do Anything I Made A Hole Imprisoned Time Within It Created Friction Stopped Listening To Warnings Ceased Fixing My Errors Made The Impossible Possible? Turned Sadness Into Joy) Pt. 13. I'm Over 137% A Love Junkie And Still It's Not Enough Pt. 14. I'm Over 137% A Love Junkie And Still It's Not Enough Pt. 25. What Have I Done? (I Was Reeling In Something White And I Became Able To Do Anything I Made A Hole Imprisoned Time Within It Created Friction Stopped Listening To Warnings Ceased Fixing My Errors Made The Impossible Possible? Turned Sadness Into Joy) Pt. 2

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