Nazoranai (Keiji Haino, Stephen O’Malley, Oren Ambarchi) live at MOCAD

One of the most legendary musicians to come out of Japan’s underground rock scene, Keiji Haino stands as a key figure in contemporary music. Since the early 1970s, Haino has explored the transformative elements of noise and silence, approaching the performance stage with his own distinctive vision of sonic creation. Haino synthesizes sources like Delta blues, troubadour music, free improvisation, and Blue Cheer into an utterly astounding personal musical vocabulary. Nazoranai finds Haino creating extended i