What we wrote about them at the time…
“Sound is all our dreams of music, noise is music’s dreams of us”.
Although Morton Feldman probably didn’t have Hijokaidan in mind, his beautifully turned phrase captures something of the dislocating essence of the new planes noise can open up to mind and body. Hijokaidan, one of the longest running and most expressive groups operating in the Japanese noise scene, bore like granite into granite, a 5-headed extension of raw power and Aktionist spectacle whose 25 year career had helped define the noise genre.