KEIJI HAINO + MASAYOSHI FUJITA

Sunday 15 March 2026 - 6 pm
@ OGR Torino, corso Castelfidardo 22
KEIJI HAINO + MASAYOSHI FUJITA

KEIJI HAINO "POLYGONOLA acoustic set"
A key voice in Japan’s countercultural soundscape
Over four decades, Keiji Haino has thrived at the fringes of improvised music, becoming both a pioneer of and paragon for turning rock music inside out after earning attention during the ’80s for Fushitsusha, his on-again, off-again psychedelic powerhouse. Across the next quarter-century, he steadily emerged from Japan’s underground as an experimental extremist.
Haino’s almost 50-year career has encompassed a dizzying range of approaches from wild, guitar-led ensemble rock and near-Neolithic drumming; live electronics, untutored explorations of lute and flute, to voice experiments and extended performances for gamelan and other percussion. Throughout, Haino has retained a visionary focus upon temporary suspension through noise (and silence) whilst refining a mercurial, highly distinctive method and an arrestingly dramatic on-stage presence that borrows the raiments of performance art.
In this special event in Torino, he will perform on polygonola, a metal-flat polygonal instrument, based on the 2nd dimensional vibration theory, built by Naoki Skura.

MASAYOSHI FUJITA
An impressive exercise in ambient soundscaping
Masayoshi Fujita is a Japanese vibraphone player based in Hyogo. He first learned how to play the drums, followed by extensive vibraphone training which led to writing his own jazz and electronic-influenced compositions. Having released more ambient, electronic recordings, Fujita began to experiment outside of traditional vibraphone styles, preparing his instrument with pieces of metal, strips of foil and other objects in the search for new possibilities that resulted in new sounds that expanded the vibraphone spectrum without eroding the instrument’s intrinsic character.
He has released five LPs on cult label Erased Tapes including Stories (2013), Apologues (2015), Book of Life (2018), Bird Ambience (2021) and Migratory (2024), and has collaborated with electronic producers including Jan Jelinek and Guy Andrews.
Participation included in the admission ticket to the exhibitions of OGR.