KK Null

KK NULL (real name Kazuyuki Kishino) was born in Tokyo, Japan. He is the composer, guitarist, singer, mastermind of hardcore group Zeni Geva and truly electronic wizard. He is defenitely one of the top names in Japanese noise music and, in a larger context, one of the greatest cult artists in experimental music since the early 80's.

In 1981 KK NULL studied at Butoh dancer, Min Tanaka's “Mai-Juku” workshop and started his career by performing guitar improvisations in the clubs in Tokyo. He continued by collaborating with Merzbow for two years, and joining the band YBO2 (with Tatsuya Yoshida, drummer of Ruins) and starting the improvized noise/rock trio Absolut Null Punkt (with Seijiro Murayama, the original drummer of Keiji Haino's Fushitsusha).

In 1985 he established his own label Nux Organization to produce & release his own works and subsequently the bands such as Melt-Banana. He also produced the series of “Dead Tech” (compilation albums by Japanese bands) which heralded Japanese alternative music boom internationally from the early 90's to date.

In the early 90's he gained world-wide recognition as the mastermind, guitarist and singer of the progressive hardcore trio Zeni Geva with their unique sound, releasing five albums produced by Steve Albini (two on Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles label) and a few more on other labels such as Neurosis's Neurot Recordings. Also Zeni Geva recorded twice for John Peel's Sessions on BBC, and immensely toured throughout Europe, USA, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, playing hundreds of concerts.

All the while, KK NULL has worked on his solo career and collaborated with other musical innovators such as Z'EV,  Chris Watson, Fred Frith, Keiji Haino, Seiichi Yamamoto, Jon Rose, Bill Horist, Daniel Menche, Philip Samartzis, Alexei Borisov, Zbignew Karkowski, James Plotkin, just to name a few. Also Kazuyuki Kishino has been invited to perform at international festivals such as Sonar (Spain), Beyond Innocence (Japan), International Sound Art Festival (Mexico), Sergey Kuryokhin International Festival (SKIF-6 & 8) in St.Petersburg & Moscow (Russia), X-peripheria (Hungary), Totally Huge New Music Festival (Australia), Avanto (Finland), All Tomorrow's Parties (UK), International Festival Musique Actuelle (Canada), Electron (Switzerland), Presences Electronique (France) and others.

After playing the guitar as his main instrument for some twenty years, KK NULL has gradually moved towards a more electronic approach. In recent years he has concentrated his efforts on his solo & collaborative recordings, exploring the outer territories of electronica, creating intense clashing wave of noise, structured electro-acoustic ambience, broken down rhythmics, scattered pitch sculptures, droning isolationist material which could be described “cosmic noise maximal/minimalism”.

At present KK NULL has more than 100 titles of recordings released (inc. solo, bands, collaboratiobns, compilations).

Selected recent discography (under the name of KK NULL):
2007 “BaryoGenesis” (CD, Vivo)
2007 “Gamma Ray Burster” (CD, Steinklang)
2007 “Fertile” (CD, Touch)
2006 “Mamono” (with Keiji Haino) (CD, Blossoming Noise)
2006 “Kosmista Noisea” (CD, Important Records)
2006 “Ergosphere” (CD, Blossoming Noise)
2005 “Raijin” (with Daniel Menche) (CD, Asphodel)
2005 “Number One” (with Z'EV and Chris Watson) (CD, Touch)
2006 “Prime Radiant” (CD, Blossoming Noise)

Some audio samples of KK NULL music:
Touch Radio (96 Kpbs/44.1 Khz/Stereo)

Web:
www.kknull.com

Contact:
null@kknull.com