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Originally released on cassette in 1985, H·A·D·A·Y·R·O is a landmark of Japanese noise music. It documents the early vision of Solmania and the singular sonic approach of Masahiko Ohno. For years, it remained a cult artifact among collectors and underground enthusiasts. This vinyl edition renews its impact, feeling more like a rebirth than a simple reissue.
Solmania was far more than a band; it was Masahiko Ohno’s personal sound laboratory. At the heart of the album are his self-built guitars, transformed into extraordinary sound-generating machines. Their tones scrape, roar, and vibrate with an almost organic intensity. Alongside these, Ohno also employs tape, radio, turntable, and voice—expanding the palette into a raw, multi-source field of sound, with drums and keyboard performed by Tomioka Akira.
The album constructs noise as a complex, layered architecture. Distortion, feedback, metallic harmonics, and electrical abrasion intertwine into dense, evolving structures. Despite its industrial harshness, the sound remains deeply human. Every vibration carries the mark of touch, pressure, and spontaneous improvisation.
Here, noise is not simply about volume or aggression, but about exploring texture, repetition, and transformation. The music exists in a thrilling balance between construction and controlled collapse. Its hypnotic passages take on an almost ritualistic, sculptural quality. Each moment seems poised to mutate into something new.
The vinyl format fully reveals the richness of this work. Low-end resonance, harmonic detail, and the interplay between feedback and silence emerge with renewed clarity. More than a historical artifact, this reissue presents H·A·D·A·Y·R·O as a living, vital work. It remains a radical example of uncompromising creativity and sonic innovation.
Ohno Masahiko : guitar, tape, radio, metal, turntable and voice
Tomioka Akira : drums and keyboards
recorded at Sankyo studio, Tondabayashi, Osaka jan. 1985
mixed at Fatagaga tapes, Kanan-cho, Osaka jan. 1985
original released : Fatagaga tapes FTC-2 (jan. 1985)
