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Jojo Hiroshige

Japanese guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and noisemaker, born in Kyoto on September 9, 1959. Founded the seminal noise group Hijokaidan in 1979, and the independent record label Alchemy Records in 1984 (with the late Naoto Hayashi)
Hiroshige has also run several businesses such as Jo's Sports Cards (Tokyo and Osaka), Alchemy Book Store (Kyoto 2000-2003), and the Alchemy Music Store (Osaka 1999-2008). In early 2009, he opened a fortune telling parlor in Osaka: Future Days.

Japanese guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and noisemaker, born in Kyoto on September 9, 1959. Founded the seminal noise group Hijokaidan in 1979, and the independent record label Alchemy Records in 1984 (with the late Naoto Hayashi)
Hiroshige has also run several businesses such as Jo's Sports Cards (Tokyo and Osaka), Alchemy Book Store (Kyoto 2000-2003), and the Alchemy Music Store (Osaka 1999-2008). In early 2009, he opened a fortune telling parlor in Osaka: Future Days.

Crimson Voyage
The Return of Sai Yoshiko! At first glance, the partnership between Jojo Hiroshige and Yoshiko Sai seems implausible. After all, what could the King of Noise and the mystical folk singer have in common? Released in 2001, and marking the first musical work from Sai in over two decades, Crimson Voyage is dark swirling ambience, a spirited improvisation between a master of dark noise, and one of Japan’s most underrated singers. Sai’s voice, still as exhilarating as it was during Mangekyo, bursts fo…
2 Hours Live - Fortune of Twelve
Jojo Hiroshige - known and feared throughout the world not only as a member of the legendary ‘‘Hijokaidan,’’ often referred as ‘‘King of Noise,’’ but also as the owner of the prestigious label “Alchemy Records,” which has released countless “Japanoise” masterpieces. "Words are different to sounds in that the images they create are limited. They’re like a two-edged sword – sometimes they can be used effectively, but sometimes they restrict the range of the images employed. When I was young I read…
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