Beginning and End, Interwoven

by Keiji Haino

Beginning and End, Interwoven cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1994
  • Label: Streamline
  • Country: Japan
  • Length: 1:03:35
  • Community rating: 3.35/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Utilizing only his voice and a hurdy-gurdy, avant-garde luminary Keiji Haino performs an intensely minimalist set of improvisations. 'Beginning and End, Interwoven' creates a surreal, deeply lonely acoustic environment marked by cryptic shrieks and harsh, rhythmic dissonance.

Genres

Descriptors: noisy, improvisation, rhythmic, dissonant, minimalistic, experimental, extreme, distorted

Tracklist

  1. Caught (1:30)
  2. Beginning And End, Interwoven (5:10)
  3. Surrounded By You (4:02)
  4. My Friend (4:05)
  5. Secretly (3:41)
  6. The Active Voice Revealed (6:35)
  7. In Between (14:40)
  8. Different (8:06)
  9. Even One (6:25)
  10. As It Is Now (5:48)
  11. To Excess (3:33)

Credits

  • Keiji Haino - primary artist, guitar [uncredited], voice [keiji haino experienced singing all songs], words by [all words improvised by], music by [all music improvised by]
  • Joseph Hammer - edited by [digital]

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