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I much prefer "organic" noise shows where I can see the performer engaging with their instruments, but it also has a lot to do with how they're doing it. Laptops aren't interesting at all; I might as well be at home listening. Someone playing an instrument -- be it a sheet a metal, a guita...

fenian wrote: ↑Thu Sep 28, 2023 2:25 pm The venue in that video is Bottom Of The Hill in San Francisco maybe Mason knows?

I'm not sure who shot that video but there's a good chance it was Gabriel from Amoeba, who recorded a bunch of shows around that time...

Yeah, I didn't make it down for that show, unfortunately. I did get the fliers and post em, see https://www.tumblr.com/noisefliers/search/%23masonna

Ongaku Ontaku shld come back to print, Mason, in a better world this wld be. Well, I'm not likely to ever do new issues, but I would like to collect the original four into a book. One of these days I'll get the issues scanned in high-res and see what might be possible. Unfortunately I only have a s...

Oh Snap!! That was literally right as I was getting everything together in my life to go on tour & then stay in Oakland, moving there from La Habra/Fullerton. That’s how I missed that. Dambit!! But now I gotta know when the Solmania Masonna show was at Anomalous. I’ll ask Eric. That was probabl...

Hello, and thanks for the kind words. I was lucky enough to stumble into the Japanese scene and discover how amazing everyone was, from which point on I tried to help however I could to spread the word. I was able to set up Zeni Geva's first show in SF (with Pain Teens, and Neurosis opening for the...

Hello, and thanks for the kind words. I was lucky enough to stumble into the Japanese scene and discover how amazing everyone was, from which point on I tried to help however I could to spread the word. I was able to set up Zeni Geva's first show in SF (with Pain Teens, and Neurosis opening for them...

This one was in 1992. I feel like it was at La Mama but I'm not sure. I'd have to check my diary from back then! Marble Sheep also played, oddly enough, and the group I was playing with at the time (Torture Chorus). The very first time I saw Hijokaidan live (aside from a warehouse set played with th...

Been busy for a while, kept meaning to sign up here but didn't until this weekend. Mason Jones, San Francisco-based. Started releasing experimental/noise cassettes as Trance in 1987, started the Charnel Music label in 1989, published the annual journal Ongaku Otaku about Japanese underground sounds....

The very first time I saw Hijokaidan live (aside from a warehouse set played with them) was with a drummer, and it was amazing. Hiroshi from CCCC/Astro played drums with them. It was in Tokyo, if I remember correctly at the La Mama live house. I like the propulsion that drums can give to them, espec...