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Keiji Haino with Boris

Black: Implication Flooding

(Inoxia Records, IXCD-0002) (Japan) (CD)


  1. A Rise, a Moment before Something Unexpected Is on the Verge of Starting (15:24)
  2. Not Knowing If It Will Be Agony or Comfort for Us (1:26)
  3. Wonder What Colour Would Be Suitable for the Dwelling (1:45)
  4. The Decision of a Dream Which Will Never Be Completely Red (2:07)
  5. It Should Be Watched, Not to Fail to Notice These Flashes of an Accusation from Inside (9:53)
  6. Offer It All Up, Our Madness That Will Be Crushed on This Land That Has Come to Be Called Chaos Unzipped (11:38)
  7. From the Distance, with Their Own Gentle Eyes Always Fixed on Us, They Are Affectionately Gazing at the Black: Implication Flooding (6:27)
  8. Don't Be Cheated by the Oozing Slit from Both of the Accuser and the Accused Which Is Always There, Saying "Something Have to Be Done" (11:07)
  9. The Person Who, What Is S/he Like, the One Who Has Been Determined and Prepared (12:33)

Keiji Haino with Boris
Keiji Haino: electronic sruthibox (1, 6), guitar (7-9), WaveDrum (5), ethnic oboe (6), vocal, Marshall
Wata: guitar, echo, EBow, Orange, Matamp
Ohtani: bass, vocal, Ampeg
Atsuo: drums, vocal

No use of overdubs or tapes

Produced by Keiji Haino and Boris
Recorded at 20000V, Koenji, Tokyo, August 31, 1997
Mastered by Yoei Hashimoto
Design by Fangs Anal Satan
All translations by Keiko Yoshida

Released in 1998
Re-released in November 2006