Keiji Haino’s debut album Watashi Dake? to get first vinyl reissue on Black Editions

Keiji Haino’s debut album Watashi Dake? to get first vinyl reissue on Black Editions
Keiji Haino's debut album Watashi Dake? to get first vinyl reissue on Black Editions
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From Darth Vader starting off as a fatherless kid with bad acting skills to Lebron James allegedly being the product of an underground medical experiment funded by Spalding, every superhuman has their origin story.

And while many might consider Keiji Haino’s 70s trip along the Milky Way a key point in his elongated step into the Japanese noise scene, the sole didn’t come to rest until 1981, when Haino’s debut studio album Watashi Dake? was released on vinyl to a relatively small audience. The Pinakotheca label sponsored the release in a correspondingly small edition, and the only other reissue since that time (until now)…