KK NULL (real name
: KAZUYUKI KISHINO) was born in Tokyo, Japan. Composer, guitarist, singer,
mastermind of ZENI GEVA and electronic wizard.
One of the top names in
Japanese noise music and in a larger context, one of the great cult artists
in experimental
music since the early 80's.
In 1981 KK NULL studied at Butoh dancer, Min Tanaka's "Mai-Juku" workshop
and
started his career by performing guitar improvisations in the clubs
in Tokyo. He continued by collaborating with MERZBOW for
two years, and
joining the band YBO2 (with Tatsuya Yoshida, drummer of RUINS) and starting
the improvized noise/rock
trio ABSOLUT NULL PUNKT (with Seijiro Murayama,
the original drummer of Keiji Haino's FUSHITSUSHA).
In 1985 he
established his own label NUX ORGANIZATION to produce & release
his own works and subsequently the bands such as MELT-BANANA
and SPACE
STREAKINGS. He also produced the series of "Dead Tech" (compilation albums
by Japanese bands) which heralded
Japanese alternative music boom internationally
from the early 90's to date.
In the early 90's he gained world-
wide recognition as the mastermind,
guitarist and singer of the progressive hardcore trio ZENI GEVA with their
extremely heavy sound, releasing five albums produced by STEVE ALBINI
(two on Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles label) and a
few more on
other labels such as NEUROSIS's Neurot Recordings. Also ZENI GEVA recorded
twice for JOHN PEEL SESSION on
BBC, and immensely toured throughout Europe,
USA, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, playing hundreds of concerts.
Throughout, KK NULL has worked on his solo career and collaborated
with other musical innovators such as Z'EV, CHRIS WATSON,
DANIEL MENCHE,
KEIJI HAINO, SEIICHI YAMAMOTO, JON ROSE, BILL HORIST, PHILIP SAMARTZIS,
ALEXEI BORISOV, ZBIGNIEW
KARKOWSKI, JAMES PLOTKIN, JIM O'ROURKE, FRED
FRITH, JOHN ZORN to name a few, and has been invited to perform at international festivals such as "Sonar" in Barcelona (Spain), "Beyond Innocence" in Kobe/Osaka (Japan), "Exiles" in Berlin (Germany), "International Sound Art Festival" in Mexico City (Mexico), "Sergey Kuryokhin International Festival (SKIF-6 & 8)" in St.Petersburg & Moscow (Russia), "X-peripheria" in Budapest (Hungary), "Totally Huge New Music Festival" in Perth (Australia), "Avanto Helsinki Media Art Festival" in Helsinki (Finland), "All Tomorrow's Parties UK", "International Festival Musique Actuelle" in Victoriaville (Canada), "Electron" in Geneve (Switzerland), "Presences Electronique [INA/GRM]" in Paris (France) and more.
After
playing the guitar as his main instrument for some twenty years,
KK NULL has gradually moved towards a more electronic
approach. In recent
years he has concentrated his efforts on his solo & collaborative recordings,
exploring the outer
territories of electronica, creating intense clashing
wave of noise, structured electro-acoustic ambience, broken down
rhythmics,
scattered pitch sculptures, droning isolationist material which could
be described "cosmic noise
maximal/minimalism".
At present KK NULL has more than 100 titles of recordings released (inc.
solo, bands,
collaboratiobns, compilations). |
