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Hijokaidan

Hijokaidan (lit. "emergency stairway") 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 Yoshiyuki "Jojo" Hiroshige its one constant member, who is head & owner of the Osaka-based Alchemy Records. 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. 

Hijokaidan (lit. "emergency stairway") 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 Yoshiyuki "Jojo" Hiroshige its one constant member, who is head & owner of the Osaka-based Alchemy Records. 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. 

Split
This album was specially released for The Lowest Form Of Music event celebrating the work and legacy of the Los Angeles Free Music Society that took place in London over the weekend of the 22nd - 24th October 2010. It features two raw bursts of live material from two legendary bands. Side A : Airway, Live at Gramercy Theatre, New York. 22/11/09. With Dennis Duck, John Duncan, Aaron Moore, Fredrik Nilsen, Linda Pitmon, Joe Potts, Rick Potts, Tom Recchion, Vetza. Side B : Hijokaidan, Live a…
Tapes
** long op, few copies back in stock** Originally released in 1986 as an LP on Alchemy Records. With a cover and title paying homage to their krautrock heroes Faust, Hijokaidan's Tapes is a crucial entry in their discography, a record originally released in 1986 as sort of a career retrospective to date, comprising tracks from various eras and lineups, all only previously available on cassette. It starts off way back in 1979 with Hijokaidan's first ever recording, the studio-destroying (so …
Modern
Classic Hijokaidan with the line-up of Junko, Jojo, Mikawa. Recorded at Gorilla, February 1989, Remastered by T.Kotani (Omega Sound). One 74 minute long piec
Legendary Live Collection Of Hijokaidan Vol. 8
the latest installment on the Hijokaidan DVD live series, this is an early performance shot in 1981
Legendary Live Collection Of Hijokaidan Vol. 7
Just arrived, on of the latest chapter on the serialized live DVDr series by the Japan's longest-running and most legendary (if not the most prolific) noise group, Hijokaidan. This is a video footage recorded on 1989.8.19 At Eggplant, Osaka in a great video quality... and it is actually the 'infamous' one with Junko pissing herself onstage
Legendary Live Collection Of Hijokaidan Vol. 1
DVD-R: NTSC, region free, color. Recorded Live at Studio Ahiru, Osaka, January 4, 1981. Released in 2008.
Legendary Live Collection Of Hijokaidan Vol. 2
DVD-R: NTSC, region free, color. Hijokaidan: Jojo Hiroshige (electric guitar, voice), Toshiji Mikawa (electronics, voice) and Fumio Kosakai (electronics, voice). Recorded Live at Waseda University, Tokyo, November 4, 1994. Released in 2008.
Legendary Live Collection Of Hijokaidan Vol. 3
DVD-R: NTSC, region free, color. Hijokaidan: Jojo Hiroshige (electric guitar),Toshiji Mikaw (electronics) and Junko (chair throwing). Recorded Live at LOft, Shinjuku, Tokyo, January 11, 1988. Released in 2008.
Legendary Live Collection Of Hijokaidan Vol. 4
DVD-R: NTSC, region free, color. Hijokaidan: Jojo Hiroshige (electric guitar, voice), Junko (voice), Fumio Kosakai (electronics, voice) and Masami Akita (drums). Recorded Live at Antiknock, Tokyo, September 19, 1992. Released in 2008.
Legendary Live Collection Of Hijokaidan Vol. 5
Japanese noise band formed in Kyoto in 1979 by Jojo Hiroshige and Naoki Zushi. They released their first LP「蔵六の奇病」(Zouroku No Kibyou) on Unbalance in 1982, and this DVD is the live release party for that first LP.
25th Anniversary Live
DVD-R: NTSC, region free, color. Hijokaidan: Nao Shibata (drums), Toshiji Mikawa (electronics), Fumio Kosakai (electronics), Junko (voice) and Jojo Hiroshige (electric guitar, voice). Recorded Live at Club 24, Yokohama, November 28, 2004. Released in 2008.
Legendary Live Collection Of Hijokaidan Vol. 6
DVD-R: NTSC, region free, color. Recorded Live at LOft, Tokyo, August 28, 1981. Released in September 2008.
Polar Nights Live
Although Hijokaidan's status as noise superstars they rarely perform outside Japan. The pleasure was then ever greater for the All Ears festival in Oslo Norway to present Hijokaidan at their festival in january 2006. Polar Nights Live documents these historical and astonishing performances. Jojo and Junko performed as a Hijokaidan two-piece on the opening night of the festival, a rarely heard line-up. Their performance got such a tremendous response that they came back for an encore (Otomo Yoshi…
Split serie #1
BusRatch comes recommended by Yoshihide Otomo and Christian Marclay as highly talented experimental unit. Hijokaidan a powerful force in contemporary japanese noise. Recorded 03, 8th, February at Taku Taku, Kyoto, the intensity of this live performance is immediate.
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