Hisato Higuchi Discography of CDs

Hisato Higuchi albums Tokyo-based guitarist/singer Hisato Higuchi has shaped an inimitable sound sphere of solitary electric notes that drape across his unearthly moan during the course of two full-lengths and an EP. Channeling loneliness and desires as elegant six-string tone poems, Higuchi has reached the heights of fellow travelers from Meredith Monk to Charalambides. Though Butterfly Horse Street adds an unexpected snarl as Higuchi erupts into free/noise, wall of sound guitar style that echoes the most ecstatic string manipulation of Masayuki Takayanagi or Donald Miller (Borbetomagus). Ferocious and howling, Higuchi still paints desolation whether bleeding into the red or as hushed beauty. Recording information: 2006. Personnel: Hisato Higuchi (vocals, electric guitar); Hisato Higuchi. Audio Mixer: Hisato Higuchi.

Hisato Higuchi music CDs Track Listing of songs: Hikari; Ashi No Nai Inu; Katamari Kara Nagareru Mono; Atatakai Tsuchi; Kubi Kazari; Ogon No Uma; Kageri; Biniru No Bankokuki; Kanashimi To Yorokobi; Jinbo No Nai Ongakuka; Nuguenai Mono; Musu;

Hisato Higuchi discography Dialogue is Hisato Higuichi's first U.S. release, his third overall. It may be a tad short at 35 minutes, but it firmly establishes the identity and uniqueness of this Japanese guitarist. All 13 short songs come from the same mold: delicate, almost hesitating guitar chords -- more touched than played -- and whispered wordless vocals, like powerless lullabies to dead infants. Two names immediately jump to mind: Keiji Haino and Loren MazzaCane Connors. Of Haino, Higuichi borrows that unspeakable frailness in the quiet register, that utter nakedness of the soul; of Connors, he retains the weighty sparseness that implies many more notes than those that are played out, and that peculiar bluesy tinge (especially noticeable in "Guitar #3"). Some tracks are little more than blueprints: "Haijimari No Bamen," only one-minute long, consists of two chords strummed a couple of times and two vocal notes, barely sung, more like two tuned exhalations. Other tracks ...