KK Null

Born in Tokyo in 1961, Kazuyuki Kishino is an electro-acoustic music composer/performer, guitarist, singer and the mastermind of avant-garde rock band Zeni Geva. In 1981 he studied at Butoh dancer, Min Tanaka's "Mai-Juku" workshop, started performing guitar improvisations in Tokyo, collaborated with Merzbow for two years, joined the band YBO2 (with Tatsuya Yoshida, drummer of Ruins) and started the improvized rock trio Absolut Null Punkt (with Seijiro Murayama, the original drummer of Keiji Haino's Fushitsusha).In the 90's Zeni Geva released five albums produced by Steve Albini, 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 been working on his solo career and collaborated with other musical innovators from all over the globe such as Chris Watson (UK), Z'ev (USA/UK), John Zorn (USA), Fred Frith (USA/UK), Matmos (USA), Keiji Haino (Japan), Jon Rose (Australia), Philip Samartzis (Australia), Alexei Borisov (Russia) and Zbigniew Karkowski (Poland), to name a few, and has been invited to perform at prestigious international festivals. KK Null has been invited by GRM (Le Groupe de Recherches Musicales) to perform at Presences Électronique in Paris successively 2008 and 2009. In recent years KK Null has concentrated his efforts on 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 as "cosmic noise maximal/minimalism".

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Label: Neurot Recordings, Touch
Array: JP
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