Jojo Hiroshige
Japanese guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and noisemaker, born in Kyoto on September 9, 1959. Founded the seminal noise group Hijokaidan in 1979, and the independent record label Alchemy Records in 1984 (with the late Naoto Hayashi).
Hiroshige has also run several businesses such as Jo's Sports Cards (Tokyo and Osaka), Alchemy Book Store (Kyoto 2000-2003), and the Alchemy Music Store (Osaka 1999-2008). In early 2009, he opened a fortune telling parlor in Osaka: Future Days.
Japanese guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and noisemaker, born in Kyoto on September 9, 1959. Founded the seminal noise group Hijokaidan in 1979, and the independent record label Alchemy Records in 1984 (with the late Naoto Hayashi).
Hiroshige has also run several businesses such as Jo's Sports Cards (Tokyo and Osaka), Alchemy Book Store (Kyoto 2000-2003), and the Alchemy Music Store (Osaka 1999-2008). In early 2009, he opened a fortune telling parlor in Osaka: Future Days.
Five Elements
A 2015 collaboration between Jojo Hiroshige on guitar and Haruo Ueda on electronics, structured around the natural elements. The Hijokaidan founder steps away from pure noise into a more textural dialogue, his guitar set against Ueda's shifting electronic fields. On Alchemy.
Little Something
An instrumental solo guitar album from Jojo Hiroshige, founder of Hijokaidan and self-styled King of Noise. Improvisation for solo electric guitar pushed to a dense, heavy extreme that is hard to believe comes from a single instrument. On Alchemy.
生きている価値なし～The Very Best Of Jojo Hiroshige
Jojo Hiroshige - known and feared throughout the world not only as a member of the legendary ‘‘Hijokaidan,’’ often referred as ‘‘King of Noise,’’ but also as the owner of the prestigious label “Alchemy Records,” which has released countless “Japanoise” masterpieces.
"Words are different to sounds in that the images they create are limited. They’re like a two-edged sword – sometimes they can be used effectively, but sometimes they restrict the range of the images employed. When I was young I read…
Abe Kaii
A 1982 cassette by Abe Kaii, the duo of Jojo Hiroshige and Toshiji Mikawa, named in sly homage to free jazz saxophonist Kaoru Abe. A monolith of free jazz and psychedelic space rock from two future architects of Japanese noise, near impossible to hear for decades, reissued on Alchemy in 2017.
Asian Meeting Recordings #1
*2023 stock* Asian Meeting Featival" rose to the highest recent years. This is the studio recordings CD, finally put out via doubtmusic. Amazing musicians / artists from each country in Asia gathered in Tokyo, they played powerful improvisations under directions by dj sniff and Yuen Cheewai. We recorded, selected and edited them for completed the CD. We would like you to fell splender Asian improvisation and experimental music. This CD will be expected all over the world !!!
The Asian Meeting Fe…
Crimson Voyage
The Return of Sai Yoshiko! At first glance, the partnership between Jojo Hiroshige and Yoshiko Sai seems implausible. After all, what could the King of Noise and the mystical folk singer have in common? Released in 2001, and marking the first musical work from Sai in over two decades, Crimson Voyage is dark swirling ambience, a spirited improvisation between a master of dark noise, and one of Japan’s most underrated singers. Sai’s voice, still as exhilarating as it was during Mangekyo, bursts fo…
2 Hours Live - Fortune of Twelve
A two-CD live document of Jojo Hiroshige solo: two hours of his singular song-and-noise art, voice and roaring guitar fused into one body. The Hijokaidan founder using sound to reach what words cannot. On Alchemy, 2016.
Triple Echo vol 1-3
The complete Triple Echo series in one set: three CDs of Jojo Hiroshige's drone project, a concept the King of Noise carried for thirty years. From a single sustained guitar note he draws three subtly shifting tones, minimalist feedback held until the ear loses its bearings. On Alchemy.
Enka Mood Collection
This is the first in a series of Enka mood 10" LPs to be released on An' archives. This record is an expression of the soul of a people, an exotic, sentimental journey. To stand aside or take the ride? The decision lies with what our feelings say. Side A of this split LP features self-proclained 'King of Noise', Jojo Hiroshige, founder member of the legendary Hijokaidan and stalwart of the Japanese noise scene. The B-side is engraved with the naked and guttural voice of sax-player Tamio Shiraish…
Osaka Fortune
Osaka Fortune is the meeting of two Norwegians and to Japanese artists Ð two drummers and two noise musicians. The album was recorded in Osaka, Japan February 2011. The quartet had previously performed live together, but this time they set up a studio recording on their tour of Japan. Jojo Hiroshige is the guitarist and leader of infamous Japanese noise band Hijokaidan, which has been going since 1979, known for their violent and energetic performances. Hiroshige has also run Alchemy Records sin…