Hijokaidan

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Hijokaidan (非常階段, 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 (Japanese; 広重嘉之, JOJO広重) its one constant member, who is head & owner of the Osaka-based Alchemy Records. Other regulars include Jojo's wife Junko and Toshiji Mikawa (also of Incapacitants). 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. As the group's lineup changed over time, their focus became less performance-based and more musically based, fine-tuning their sound into a dense wall of white noise created by each member making as much of a racket as humanly possible.

[edit] Partial discography

• Syumatsu-Syorijo(compilation) (1980)
• Zoroku no Kibyo (1982)
• Viva Angel (1984)
• King of Noise (1985)
• Tapes (1986)
• Limited Edition (1987)
• No Paris No Harm (1988)
• Modern (1989)
• Romance (1990)
• Windom (1991)
• The Neverending Story of King of Noise Compilation (1992)
• Noise From Trading Cards (1997)
• Ferocity of Practical Life EP (1997)
• The Last Recording Album (2004)
• The Lord of the Noise (retrospective CD and DVD) (2004)
• Polar Nights Live (2008)

[edit] Collaborations

• S.O.B.Kaidan: Noise Violence and Destroy (1988)
• Borbetomagus & Hijokaidan: Both Noises End Burning (2007)

[edit] External links

• The Hijokaidan Story