NAZORANAIなぞらない

Live: NAZORANAI (Keiji Haino+Stephen O'Malley+Oren Ambarchi) Tatsuhisa Yamamoto + Jim O'Rourke + Eiko Ishibashi The first-ever Japanese performance from Nazoranai, the trio of Haino, Ambarchi and Stephen O’Malley (Sunn O))), KTL). The trio’s many European performances and their recent double LP on O’Malley’s Ideologic Organ label have been widely praised. Their performance at SuperDeluxe promises to attain their signature intensity, transforming the rock power-trio into an agent of ritual hypnosis. by Francis Plagne Photo by Ben Guiver Artist info: Keiji Haino  Keiji Haino Homepage [hainokeiji.com](http://www.hainokeiji.com/) Stephen O'Malley  O'Malley is a founding member of several groups including Sunn O))), Burning Witch, KTL, and Khanate. Within these groups and alone, he has collaborated with a variety of artists including Greg Anderson, Merzbow, Eyvind Kang, Alan Moore, Julian Cope, Joe Preston, Attila Csihar, Stuart Dempster, Peter Rehberg, Lee Dorrian, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Nurse With Wound, Boris & Michio Kurihara, Jim O'Rourke, Keiji Haino, Daniel O'Sullivan & Kristoffer Rygg, Aaron Turner, Oren Ambarchi, Alexander Tucker, and percussionist Z'EV. O'Malley also produced work together with the French choreographer and theatre director Gisèle Vienne, American sculptor Banks Violette, the Italian performance artist Nico Vascellari, Swiss art collective KLAT, and the Belgian film maker Alexis Destoop. O'Malley has directed and produced album cover art and design since the early 1990s for groups including Earth, Burzum, Emperor, Melvins and Boris. He has also worked as a rock/metal music journalist & published a black metal fanzine called Descent in the nineties. He was involved with creation of both the Southern Lord label and the experimental/neofolk/black metal label The Ajna Offensive. In 2011 he began curating and art directing the Ideologic Organ record label, in association with the Viennese Editions Mego. [Stephen O'Malley Official Website](http://www.ideologic.org/) Oren Ambarchi  Oren Ambarchi's works are hesitant and tense extended songforms located in the cracks between several schools: modern electronics and processing; laminal improvisation and minimalism; hushed, pensive songwriting; the deceptive simplicity and temporal suspensions of composers such as Morton Feldman and Alvin Lucier; and the physicality of rock music, slowed down and stripped back to its bare bones, abstracted and replaced with pure signal. Ambarchi has performed and recorded with a diverse array of artists such as Fennesz, Otomo Yoshihide, Pimmon, Keiji Haino, John Zorn, Rizili, Voice Crack, Jim O'Rourke, Keith Rowe, Phill Niblock, Dave Grohl, Gunter Muller, Evan Parker, z'ev, Toshimaru Nakamura, Peter Rehberg, Merzbow and many more. Since 2004 Ambarchi has worked with American avant metal outfit Sunn 0))) contributing to many of their releases and side-projects including their Black One album from 2005 and the recent Monoliths & Dimensions release. For 10 years together with Robbie Avenaim, Ambarchi was the co-organiser of the What Is Music? festival, Australia’s premier annual showcase of local and international experimental music. The festival hosted over 200 local and international performers. Ambarchi now curates the Maximum Arousal series at The Toff In Town in Melbourne and has recently co-produced an Australian television series on experimental music called Subsonics. Ambarchi recently co-curated the sound program for the 2008 Yokohama Triennale. [Homepage](http://www.orenambarchi.com/) / [MySpace](http://www.myspace.com/45213783) Photograph of Keiji Haino, Oren Ambarchi taken by Ujin Matsuo Tatsuhisa Yamamoto  Kafka's Ibiki​ photo by Ujin Matsuo 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. Eiko Ishibashi  [Homepage](http://www.eikoishibashi.net/) Special Thanks:  Related events 2014-2-27 (Thu) Stephen O'Malley SOLO Stephen O'Malley + Jim O'Rourke + Oren Ambarchi TRIO CCA KITAKYUSHU [www.cca-kitakyushu.org/english/index.html](http://www.cca-kitakyushu.org/english/index.html)