Maybe Keiji Haino's greatest solo side to date, this one features vocals and guitar and moves from some beautifully wired folk-song through to moments of explosive solo fuzz and the kind of soul-peeling vocal form that'll have you re-thinking your entire way of life. Can't recommend this one enough - an ideal place to start for the uninitiated too.

A compilation that culls tracks from a series of ‘lecture concerts' that took place between September 2003 and February 2004 at Mesar Haus, Tokyo. Kicks off with a fantastically dense hurdy-gurdy drone from Keiji Haino and also features tracks from guitarist Kazuo Imai, pianist Junichiro Okuchi, shamisen master Michihiro Sato, turntablist Otomo Yoshihide and saxophonist Masayoshi Urabe.

New much-anticipated instalment in Keiji Haino's on-going investigation into electrified hurdy-gurdy as mind-flailing sonic reducer. This one feels like more of a rapprochement with the traditional sound of the instrument itself, with a richer, more traditionally articulated sound across five tracks. There are a bunch of different strategies at work, with swarms of dense drone giving way to spidery, micro-orchestral passages that cross silence with tiny webs of lucid harmonic detail, epic, jarring string work that sounds like a fucked and free take on the viol music of William Lawes and cranky, tactile folk-melodies slowly torn apart by roughhouse string sonorities and wheezing overtones. Outside of his guitar wielding persona and the zoned medieval drones of Nijiumu, Haino's hurdy-gurdy material makes for some of his most immersive and psychedelic work and this is easily his most mesmerising future-primitive marriage of hurdy-gurdy and electricity to date. Comes with excellent English liner notes by Biba Kopf. Highly recommended.

Heavyweight improvised session from three masters of modern tongue: guitarist/vocalist Keiji Haino, bassist Barre Phillips and drummer Sabu Toyozumi.