Rumors of Noizu: Hijokaidan and the Road to 2nd Damascus wabi-sabi Forty years after his death

Forty years after his death

were written over roughly a half century and reflect both an eclectic array of interests and a durable commitment to phenomenological thought

ISBN: 9780394711034

Slim volume comprising a single poem entitled "One Death in the Life of Julie

the other two were published more than a decade laterlater by Infinity Inc

Rumors of Noizu: Hijokaidan and the Road to 2nd Damascus wabi-sabi Forty years after his deathJapanese noise music, historically heralded as the most radical (if not EXTREME) community of unbridled sound exploration, has always been steeped in a web of mystery per its lineage and location in both Japanese and arts culture. David Hopkins delivers a welcome psycho geographic roadmap to the idiosyncrasies of this perverse and marginalized genre of wild fascination, where such infamous outliers as Hijokaidan, Merzbow, Hanatarash, and beyond