KK NULL & JOHN WIESE
"Mondo Paradoxa" [Aufabwegen]
Apr 2009 (Germany)
Constructed over the period of two years via mail collaboration
this is a great and forceful collaboration between two artists that each
have made a name for themselves with their unique approach to making sound.
Both artists combine the best of both worlds in this crunching release!
Comes in beautiful full cover digipak, designed by Government Alpha, typesetting
by John Wiese. - Aufabwegen
"He meshes iittery bleeps and pulsing rhythmic loops, layering
them into hyperactive, shapeshifting conflations, heavy on detail and packed
with drama and incident." - Wire (Jan. issue)
"Akumu" is like being caught in a spiderweb that sticks and
creeps to your skin and brain, there is no escape. "Akumu" is a truly imaginative
and terrifying electronic album that gives you a new and unique edge on
the KK NULL's universe. This is the dark masterpiece. - Vital
- 5 tracks / Total time : 56:27
KK NULL "Galactic Tornado" [Quasi Pop] Oct 2008 (Ukraine)
Brand new album recoreded at the studio in Spring-Summer
of 2008. Deep, dense, dynamic, intuitive and inspiring as usual. Combining
synthetic sounds from synthesizers and electronic machines with acoustic
audio signals. Take you to a truely psychedelic audio experience. Luxurious
6-panels digipack with silver lettering and spot varnishing feautures artwork
with images done by Kazuyuki Kishino. - Quasi-Pop
Live recorded in Berlin, Firenze, Milano & Tokyo in October-November 2006, including live remix version of "Fertile" and unreleased brand new tracks.
- 4 tracks / Total time : 57:25
KK NULL "Gamma Ray Burster" [Steinklang] Sep 2007 (Austria)
Rhythmic and pounding analogue sine waves combined with experimental electronic sounds, flirring, whistling, crackling, rumbling and noising inside Your head. This album contains all kinds of different experimental Noise styles, what makes the 52 minutes very enjoyable and entertaining. Let you take you to a trip into another galaxy. Far from here. Very far!
Fertile is KK NULL's first album for Touch, following his collaboration with Chris Watson and Z'ev [Number One - Tone 24, 2005]. it's a deep and organic soundscape of the multiverse.
Collaborative studio album from Keji Haino of the legendary
FUSHITSUSHA & KK Null the man behind ZENI GEVA.
- 7 tracks / Total time : 01:07:50
KK NULL
+ DANIEL MENCHE "Raijin"
[Asphodel]
Nov 2006 (USA)
Raijin, five untitled tracks constructed by noise artists
Daniel Menche
and KK Null, hit like a violent storm in this electrically charged collaboration
by two masters of dense sound sculpture. Like Raijin and Fujin, Shinto Gods
of thunder and lightning, Menche and Null command attention with the ability
to create a powerful sensory presence. Their treatment of drum, voice, trumpet
and electronics roars and tumbles through these collating waves of noise
and electro-acoustic ambience. Menche's thunderous drums resonate like a
shockwave as Null's lightning sheds light upon those seeking shelter on
land.
Consisting of two live tracks carefully edited in the studio
Kosmista Noisea is full of depths and dimensions showing the diversity of
NULL's music from intense clashing waves of noise to structured electro-acoustic
ambience.Lavish metallic packaging by Stephen O'Malley of Sunn O))).
The first full length studio album in 20 years. combining
free jazz, heavy rock, noise, glitch and free improvised dynamics. ANP creates
a sound that is entirely unprecedented. Lavish metallic packaging by Stephen
O'Malley of Sunn O))).
- 3 tracks / Total time : 43:45
Sounds Like
[ - SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY : CD releases only - ]
TITLE
ARTIST
LABEL
COUNTRY
YEAR
"Mondo Paradoxa"
- NULL & JOHN WIESE
[Aufabwegen]
Germany
2009
"Oxygen Flash"
- NULL
[Neurot]
USA
2008
"Akumu"
- NULL
[Vital]
Denmark
2008
"Galactic Tornado"
- NULL
[Quasi Pop]
Ukraine
2008
"Absolute Magnitude"
- ANP
[Blossoming Noise]
USA
2008
"BaryoGenesis"
- NULL
[Vivo]
Poland
2007
"Maximum Money Monster" (Reissue)
- ZENI GEVA
[Cold Spring]
UK
2007
"Gamma Ray Burster"
- NULL
[Steinklang]
Austria
2007
"Fertile"
- NULL
[Touch]
UK
2007
"Mamono"
- KEIJI HAINO & NULL
[Blossoming Noise]
USA
2006
"Raijin"
- NULL & DANIEL MENCHE
[Asphodel]
USA
2006
"Kosmista Noisea"
- NULL
[Important]
USA
2006
"Metacompound"
- ANP
[Important]
USA
2006
"Xenoglossia 2"
- NULL & ALEXEI BORISOV
[Electroclub]
Russia
2006
"Artificial Life"
- Z'EV & NULL
[CIP]
USA
2006
"Ergosphere"
- NULL
[Blossoming Noise]
USA
2006
"Number One"
- NULL / CHRIS WATSON / Z'EV
[Touch]
UK
2005
"Andromeda"
- NULL split w/ EARTH
[Important]
USA
2005
"Anima Motrix"
- NULL
[Dotdotdot]
Ireland
2005
"Prime Radiant"
- NULL
[Blossoming Noise]
USA
2005
"Absolut Null Punkt"
- ANP
[Important]
USA
2004
"Astral Loop"
- NULL
[Urgence]
Switzerland
2004
"Last Nanosecond"
- ZENI GEVA
[Urgence]
Switzerland
2004
"Xenoglossia"
- NULL & ALEXEI BORISOV
[Insofar Vapor Bulk]
Russia
2003
"Atomik Disorder"
- NULL
[Neurot]
USA
2003
"Kosmik Engine"
- NULL
[Voidstar/Important]
USA
2003
"Heliunm Flash"
- NULL
[Loud!]
Italy
2003
"Astrodynamix: Live in Moscow"
- NULL
[Dom/Long Arms]
Russia
2003
"Erg per Galaxy"
- NULL
[Opposite]
USA
2003
"Interstellar Chemistry"
- NULL & BILL HORIST
[Beta-lactam Ring]
USA
2002
"Datacide in Year Zero"
- NULL
[Crucial Blast]
USA
2002
"10,000 Light Years"
- ZENI GEVA
[Neurot]
USA
2001
"10,000 Light Years"
- ZENI GEVA
[Ritual]
Japan
2001
"Freakout Modulation"
- NULL & DAMIAN CATERA
[Harsh House]
USA
2001
"Transgenic Nomad"
- NULL & JON ROSE
[Sonore]
France
2001
"Peak of Nothingness"
- NULL
[Hushush]
Canada
2001
"split release"
- NULL split w / MOZ
[Crionic Mind]
USA
2001
"Terminal Hz"
- NULL & DAVID BROWN
[Ground Fault]
USA
2000
"Discoteca Plasma"
- NULL
[Mindfield]
USA
2000
"Gev"
- NULL
[StaalPlaat]
Holland
2000
"Ontoko"
- NULL & SEIICHI YAMAMOTO
[Ummo]
Japan
1999
"Perfect Vacuum"
- NULL
[Item]
USA
1999
"0.0004"
- NULL
[Vinyl Communications]
USA
1999
"Nullsonic"
- NULL & DISC
[Vinyl Communications]
USA
1998
"Inorganic Orgasm"
- NULL
[Manifold]
USA
1998
"Extasy of Zero-G Sex"
- NULL
[Vinyl Communications]
USA
1998
"Aurora Remix"
- remixed by DJ SPOOKY, SCORN, etc...
[Rawkus]
USA
1997
"Invisible Disaster"
- NULL
[Black Hole]
Australia
1996
"Terminal Beach"
- NULL
[Manifold]
USA
1996
"Freedom Bondage"
- ZENI GEVA
[Alternative Tentacles]
USA
1995
"Trance Europe Experience"
- ZENI GEVA
[Nux Organization]
Japan
1995
"Guitar Organism"
- NULL w/ FRED FRITH, JIM O'ROURKE, G.LOHNES, I.AGATA
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 Masashi Kitamura, the chief editer of "Fool's
Mate" magazine and Tatsuya Yoshida, the drummer of RUINS) and starting
the improvised 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).
--- The picture on top left is the front cover of the
very first LP record "Ultimate Material" released on his own label Nux Organization
in 1985, limited to 200 copies only (metal plate hand-made by himself).
Subsequently reissued from Forced Exposure with silver ink on black paper
sleeve.
OUT NOW on Idiosyncratics Records : Phil Maggi - Blue Fields in Paramount CD
..Blue Fields in Paramount is a very personal and fascinating opus, a beautiful introduction to the style of this talented artist, that could be qualified as 'dark psychedelia for daydream believers'. It has been mastered by James Plotkin (Khlyst, Khanate, Old, Phantom) and is out now as a stricly limited to 300 copies ekopack edition with a fantastic artwork by czech artist Jan Karpisek...
Appel à tous les groupes voulant nous remixer !! Tous les titres de notre dernier album Cybersex sont désormais disponibles sur demande, en kits de remix. Un double album gratuit et en ligne sortira début juillet. Chaque groupe intéressé peut nous contacter ici-même et un lien pour le téléchargement du kit de remix choisi lui sera envoyé.
Les remixs devront être rendus avant le 03/07/09 Les fichiers doivent être en 24bits non masterisés
Message to all the bands which want to remix us!! All the tracks of our last album Cybersex are henceforth available on inquiry, in kits of remix. A double free and on-line album will go out at the beginning of July. Every interested band can contact us here even and a link for the download of the kit of remix chosen will be sent. You can listen to extracts of the album and make your choice for this address: http://www.believedigital.com/albums/55265,cybersex.html
Remixes must be returned before 03/07/09 files have to be 24bits not masterized
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