Peter Brötzmann - B-flat Clarinet, Tárogató, Tenor Saxophone
Keiji Haino - Electric Guitar, Drum Kit, Percussion, Voice
Tracks
LP 1
Begging your pardon, Master Sokushinbutsu
You have sacrificed your body for us
But things continue to worsen
LP 2
The beginning or the end
which will be the first to admit its opponent?
A landscape never glimpsed before
is on the verge of manifestation
LP 3
The intellect given birth to here (existence)
is too young
LP 4
The wound that lapses into this world
can sometimes be bigger
than the wound that was dropped here
Credits
LP 1 & 2 recorded August 4, 2018 (Zebulon, Los Angeles, CA.)
LP 3 & 4 recorded August 8, 2018 (The Chapel, San Francisco, CA)
Recorded and mixed by Toshi Kasai (LP 1 & 2) and Eric Bauer (LP 3 & 4)
Mastering by Elysian Masters, Los Angeles, CA
Design by Takuya Kitamura
Translation by Alan Cummings
Executive Producer - Peter Kolovos
Performances produced by Michael Ehlers and Peter Kolovos
BE-1005/PT006:
Peter Brötzmann / Keiji Haino Duo
The intellect given birth to here (existence)
is too young
Limited Deluxe 4LP Box Set with Art Prints
Heavy custom tip-on box with pure black uncoated paper throughout and stamped black ink pigment frame. Mounted white paper insets printed with metallic silver foil. Nine full size inserts including 8 full color art prints by the artists.
RELEASE DATE: September 12, 2022
SKU: BE-1005/PT006, 2LP- $100, BE-1005/PT006 + BE-1002 - $115
Also Available: Deluxe 4LP Box + 3" CD (BE-1002, 2018) $115.
Brötzmann / Haino Duo release created strictly for audience members who had purchased tickets for cancelled and rescheduled 2018 performance at The Chapel, San Francisco, CA. Features exclusive artwork by Peter Brötzmann. Never before commercially available. Limited copies offered now. Purchase below.
“It’s common for these musicians to be labelled muscular (and other testosterone-laden terms), but it is perhaps more fitting to register them with the female archetype Kali, who enacts destruction in order to make way for new life. As we embark on a new century amidst socio-political upheaval, the Brötzmann/Haino duo feels like an artistic expression of the moment we are living in and experiencing every day.”
- Philip Greenlief “Ode to Destruction", ART FORUM, August 2018
on Peter Brötzmann / Keiji Haino Duo at the Chapel, San Francisco
The first music on record by the iconic free music duo of Peter Brötzmann & Keiji Haino since 1996. Two complete performances recorded in Los Angeles and San Francisco in the summer of 2018. The intellect given birth to here (existence) is too young presents the artists traversing a sprawling range of sound and modalities to achieve a stunning alchemy that can't be replicated. Both Brötzmann and Haino have spent their lives creating music that defies easy categorizations- phrases such as "free jazz/improvisation", "rock" or "avant garde" seem to only scratch at the surface. What can be said is their works have a nearly unmatched intensity and restless spirit- always uncompromising and only fully understood in their own unique terms. When performing together, the two push each other to entirely new and alien territories.
Keiji Haino's Purple Trap imprint and Black Editions are proud to present perhaps the defining work of their decades-long collaboration. Presented in a deluxe 4LP boxed set edition of 800 including full size, full color art prints by both artists.