Hiroshi Kawani
Hiroshi Kawani was an underground legend, performance artist, political activist, editor and instigator of Japanese translations of French books by Artaud, Bataille, Nijinsky, Klossowski, Derrida and Fournie.
Hiroshi Kawani was an underground legend, performance artist, political activist, editor and instigator of Japanese translations of French books by Artaud, Bataille, Nijinsky, Klossowski, Derrida and Fournie.
Flashback
The private home recordings presented here have been unearthed by Masayoshi Urabe which seem to date from around 1983. There's the unmistakable feel of low-level mania throughout, as Kawani moans, jabbers and obsesses wordlessly into a microphone over an patterned tapestry of feedback and amped everyday objects (rubber bands, cans, bottles, knives, steel pipes, shoes, chopsticks etc). Includes English linernotes.