Now that I am not honking my own horn, as most of new Haare comes out on other labels, often international: What a great project!
There seemed to be couple slow and quiet years, release-wise, and now Haare is catching up fast.
Recent days "New Age of Death" CD has been rotating all the time. How many times? Who knows actually, but it has been only disc in my CD player at work, and just seems like there is a lot to this CD what can't be really exaplained. While BRAIN for me, is undisputed modern classic at this point, and "Karesansui" cd is good arkinoise dosage no more, no less, this new CD just I can't really pin point why it feels so good, but it does.
During the quiet years, it felt like Haare is not "getting what it deserves". At the same time, I think all this talk of who is overrated and underrated in noise is quite pointless. Difference is so marginal, that it might be all about do you get someone to put out your album or not? Are people talking about your work (online) or not? Are you invited to live show or not.. etc. In the end, qualities that are hard to figure out if they even mean anything.
In case of Haare, as opposed to some, it feels that it is getting just better! "Karesansui" - even if said it was nothing but decent noise, it is BETTER than "Regression" CD on Freak Animal. Although name certainly describes why it is so, hah. The new CD... if comparing to his back catalogue, one can say he is at least as good, but probably better than he was. It's good to see 20 years old project that is spiraling... upwards!
