about the record

Experimental music pioneer Keiji Haino, one of the most mysterious and influential figures to emerge from the Japanese psychedelic underground, collaborates with Charles Hayward, British drummer and founding member of This Heat and Camberwell Now, on a live album released by Thirty Three Thirty Three. Titled A Loss Permitted, To Open One’s Eyes..., the album captures a live recording of their improvised performance at the Copeland Gallery in London in July 2016, part of Thirty Three Thirty Three’s Japan: London performance series. The result is fascinating: a mix of air synths, distortions, improvised Japanese poetry, and warped guitar sounds. Sedate harmonica and guitar sections give way to cosmic din or an equally unnerving silence, in a performance ALL ABOUT JAZZ described as having "no sense of logic, only silence where the tension seemed to build, then finally release.".