Keiji Haino + Sumac – American Dollar Bill - Keep Facing Sideways, You're Too Hideous To Look At Face On [2LP] Jazz / Free Improv A pianist and composer

A pianist and composer

radiophonia and zoned-out guitar improv (Seven Virgins)

the two recent works presented here both feature the electric guitar

The musicians of Prima Materia -- founded by Laneri in San Diego in 1973 -- individually researched and developed unusual vocal techniques (originally used in Tantric rituals in North India

Keiji Haino + Sumac – American Dollar Bill - Keep Facing Sideways, You're Too Hideous To Look At Face On [2LP] Jazz / Free Improv A pianist and composer"Japans 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 ORourke, Stephen OMalley, John Zorn, and Peter