Hijokaidan
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'''Hijokaidan''' ('''非常階段''', lit. "emergency stairway") is a [[Japan]]ese [[noise music|noise]] and [[free improvisation]] group with a revolving lineup that has ranged from two members to as many as fourteen in its early days. The group is the project of guitarist [[Jojo Hiroshige|Yoshiyuki "Jojo" Hiroshige]] (''Japanese;'' 広重嘉之, JOJO広重) its one constant member, who is head & owner of the [[Osaka]]-based [[Alchemy Records (Japan)|Alchemy Records]]. Other regulars include Jojo's wife Junko and [[Toshiji Mikawa]] (also of [[Incapacitants]]). The group began at the very end of the 1970s as a [[performance art]]-based group whose anarchic shows would often involve destruction of venues and audio equipment, food and garbage being thrown around, and on-stage urination. As the group's lineup changed over time, their focus became less performance-based and more musically based, fine-tuning their sound into a dense wall of [[white noise]] created by each member making as much of a racket as humanly possible.
==Partial discography==
* ''Syumatsu-Syorijo''(compilation) (1980)
* ''Zoroku no Kibyo'' (1982)
* ''Viva Angel'' (1984)
* ''King of Noise'' (1985)
* ''Tapes'' (1986)
* ''Limited Edition'' (1987)
* ''No Paris No Harm'' (1988)
* ''Modern'' (1989)
* ''Romance'' (1990)
* ''Windom'' (1991)
* ''The Neverending Story of King of Noise'' Compilation (1992)
* ''Noise From Trading Cards'' (1997)
* ''Ferocity of Practical Life'' EP (1997)
* ''The Last Recording Album'' (2004)
* ''The Lord of the Noise'' (retrospective CD and DVD) (2004)
* ''Polar Nights Live'' (2008)
==Collaborations==
* S.O.B.Kaidan: ''Noise Violence and Destroy'' (1988)
* Borbetomagus & Hijokaidan: ''Both Noises End Burning'' (2007)
==External links==
*[http://noise.as/hijokaidan The Hijokaidan Story]
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