Esplendor Geométrico & Hijokaidan – E.G. Kaidan [LP] Jazz / Free Improv "Cafe OTO's tenth Otoroku release

"Cafe OTO's tenth Otoroku release sees a return to the group that kick-started the label -- the veteran German reedsman and free-jazz pioneer Peter Brötzmann with the long-running London bass/drums partnership of John Edwards and Steve Noble

"Legendary Japanese noise band Hijokaidan presents its 2015 studio album Emergency Stairway to Heaven

which organically transitions into a passage of rumbling piano chords and mysterious concrète sound

December 2008

with each sound carefully selected for its potential -- its slow unfolding revealing delicate intricacies -- and its inherent spatialization architecting and sculpting the aural space where multiple perspectives and trajectories coexist

Esplendor Geométrico & Hijokaidan – E.G. Kaidan [LP] Jazz / Free Improv "Cafe OTO's tenth Otoroku release"Awesome collaborative recording by Spanish industrial music pioneers Esplendor Geomtrico and legendary Japanese noise kings Hijokaidan. Esplendor Geomtrico: Arturo Lanz, Saverio Evangelista; Hijokaidan: Jojo Hiroshige, Junko, T. Mikawa. Released by Geometrik (Madrid), Suezan Studio (Tokyo), and Alchemy Records (Osaka). "In November 2013, E. G. made their fourth trip to Japan. After the first two shows in Tokyo, the day for the E. G. Kaidan came. I