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Japanoise: Hostile to Speakers, Kind to Animals
This week on Post-Whatever, a story about a country famous for tea ceremony, zen gardens and punctual trains, and the underground music scene it built to ruin all three.
Japanoise is the world’s most ear-splitting export. It started in 1960 with students scraping chairs across a floor, grew through cassettes posted around the world, and ended up in tiny Tokyo venues where melody, harmony and rhythm are treated as irritating obstacles.
This week we ask how the land of tranquillity became the world capital of ear abuse, meet some of its loudest figures (Merzbow and Keiji Haino among them), and…
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