Henry Kaiser with Keiji Haino & Jim O'Rourkeヘンリー・カイザー with 灰野敬二＆ジム・オルーク

Henry Kaiser, legendary guitarist who has played on over 250 albums performs with Keiji Haino for the first time in 35 years! Kaiser is also a scientific diver with the US ANTARCTIC PROGRAM and marked his tenth deployment beneath the twenty foot thick ice of the Ross Sea in 2012. Kaiser has more Antarctic under-the-ice footage in films and TV shows than any other underwater cameraman, and probably more dives under fast ice than any other professional videographer. He was worked on 4 different feature films with Werner Herzog, including ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD and GRIZZLY MAN. Live: Henry Kaiser (guitar), Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke Video: Henry Kaiser Note: Smoking is prohibited in all areas of the venue. "It’s unusual for someone to be both an experimental guitarist, a filmmaker, and a scientific diver under the ice in Antarctica. But that is what I am. This show is a rare chance for me bring all those things together on-stage for an audience. In my ten years under the ice of the Ross Sea I have shot hundreds of hours of underwater video. I have edited some of my favorite moments together for the three of us guitarists to play with. It’s been over thirty years since I last played with Haino Keiji, back in California. Since my old friend Jim O’Rourke moved to Japan we play together much too infrequently. What’s just as exciting as sharing my special videos with you is that I get to play with two of my most favorite guitarists in the world." - Henry Kaiser Henry Kaiser NEW SOLO CD "REQUIA and other improvisations for guitar solo" Tzadik (TZ-7645) Release date: Nov 2013  Henry Kaiser & David Lindley NEW CD Music for Werner Herzog's "ENCOUNTERS At the End Of the World" Fractal Music (2013)  Artist Information: Henry Kaiser  Herbie Hancock, Richard Thompson, David Lindley, Bob Weir, The ROVA Sax Quartet, Elliot Sharp, John "Drumbo" French, Raymond Kane, Michael McClure, Bill Laswell, Steve Lacy, Fred Frith, Barbara Higbie, John Abercrombie, Leo Smith, Moe., Negativland, Michael Stipe, Terry Riley, Jim O'Rourke, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sergei Kuriokhin, Zero, Critters Buggin', Diamanda Galas, Sonny Sharrock, Hans Reichel, Chris Cutler, Henry Cow, John Zorn, Andy West, David Torn, Bill Frisell, Joey Baron, Davey Williams, Eugene Chadbourne, Evan Parker, Sang-Won Park, Material, The Golden Palominos, Victoria Williams, Jin-Hi Kim, John Oswald, Glenn Phillips, Toshinori Kondo, John Stevens, Tom Constanten, Kiyohiko Senba, Bruce Anderson, Yuji Takahashi, John Medeski, Zoogz Rift, Ngoc Lam, Dama Mahaleo, Merl Saunders, Freddie Roulette, Mari Kimura, Harvey Mandel, Danny Carnahan, Robin Petrie, Rakoto Frah, Rossy, Alan Senauke, John Tchicai, George Lewis, Kazumi Watanabe, Peter Brotzmann, Zero, Bob Bralove, Greg Allman, Billy Kreutzman, Jerry Garcia, Miya Masaoka, Miroslav Tadic, Cecil Taylor, Nels Cline, and Amos Garrett. Keiji Haino
  Born in Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture, in 1952. A pioneer in the Japanese avant-garde music scene. Plays the vocals, guitar, drums, percussions, hurdy gurdy and more than 100 instruments including ethnic ones, having established his own style and techniques and rarely employing conventional playing modes. Active since the 1970s, the inspirational words and primitive improvisation in his music that is beyond all the boundaries of rock, psychedelic, noise music, free jazz or free music has been admired by Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) and a number of listeners around the world. [Keiji Haino
 Homepage](http://hainokeiji.com/) Jim O'Rourke  Born 1969 in Chicago. O’Rourke encountered the music of Derek Bailey as youngster and began visiting him in London at the age of 13. Eyes opened to the power of improvisational guitar, he released several of his own highly experimental works and has worked closely with John Fahey and Loren Mazzacane Connors. During his long association with the Chicago experimental and improv scene O’Rourke participated in several bands and projects including Gastr Del Sol and Loose Fur. His work with Takehisa Kosugi music director of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company as well as Tony Conrad, Arnold Dreyblatt, Christian Wolff and others built bridges between contemporary and popular music. O’Rourke’s release of landmark albums Bad Timing and Happy Days in 1997 and Eureka in 1999 garnered much attention. From 1999 to 2005 he was a member of Sonic Youth, playing bass, guitar and synthesizer as well as recording and mixing the band. In 2004 he won a Grammy Award for his production of Wilco’s A Ghost is Born. O’Rourke has also earned a loyal following for his participation in numerous albums by various artists around the world. He has a deep knowledge of Japanese culture and currently lives in Tokyo. Some of his many production credits in Japan include Quruli, Kahimi Karie, and Eiko Ishibashi. He also continues to be a consummate collaborator, working with Akira Sakata, Merzbow, Yoshihide Otomo, Seiichi Yamamoto, Boredoms and others. His recordings of Toru Takemitsu’s Corona for pianists Tokyo Realization was awarded the Agency for Cultural Affairs Arts Festival Award for Excellence in 2006. He has also scored films by Werner Herzog, Olivier Assayas, Shinji Aoyama, Koji Wakamatsu and others. His own short films have been part of the 2004 and 2006 Whitney Biennial and the 2005 Rotterdam Film Festival. O'Rourke is a diverse and powerful artist. Always searching, his borderless activity goes beyond the common labels Alternative, Post-rock, Experimental-pop, Film music, Free music, Jazz, Americana, Contemporary music and continues to defly classification.