Kato, David Hopkins - Rumors of Noizu: Hijokaidan and the Road to 2nd Damascus

David Hopkins Kato. Rumors of Noizu: Hijokaidan and the Road to 2nd Damascus. Nara, Japan: Public Bath Press, 2020. Softcover. 220 pages. English.  New. "Many critics have discussed the genre of noizu as a strange subculture arising in a strange place, Japan. In this book, Noizu is discussed as a natural organic expression arising in a country full of experimental culture. Tracing the earliest stirrings of noizu in various places, this micro-history, based on extensive interviews with participants and witnesses, will provide context to make sense of something that intentionally has no meaning." - Public Bath Press Japanese noise music, historically heralded as  the most radical (if not EXTREME) community of unbridled sound exploration, has always been steeped in a web of mystery per its lineage and location in both Japanese and arts culture. David Hopkins delivers a welcome psycho-geographic roadmap to the idiosyncrasies of this perverse and marginalized genre of w