KK.Null/Raxinasky

KK.Null (electronics)
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Raxinasky (guitar, drums)
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KK.Null/Raxinasky

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 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 Tatsuya Yoshida, drummer
of RUINS) and starting the improvized noise/rock trio ABSOLUT NULL PUNKT (with
Seijiro Murayama, the original drummer of Keiji Haino's FUSHITSUSHA). He gained
wider notoriety as "guitar noise terrorist".

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 early 90's to date.

In 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.

All the while, 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.

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".

http://www.kknull.com/english.html

Raxinasky

Raxinasky is a guitar and drums duo from Brusselsplaying a super heavy mixture of brutal
noise rock.

The songs are precisely structured and the levels are mostly in the red.

Too fuckin? fast for haedbanging, this band promises to get your ears
bleeding in no time.

Raxinasky played with bands like Melted Men, Zeni Geva, Zu and Melt
Banana to name but a few.

http://www.raxinasky.tk/