A THREE-WAY DANCE BETWEEN TOP TIER IMPROVISATIONAL TALENT AND NOW I LOOK DEEPER INTO IT IT SEEMS LIKE THIS TRIUMVIRATE GET TOGETHER PRETTY MUCH EVERY YEAR TO BASH SOMETHING OUT SO THAT'S SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO ISN'T IT?
KEIJI HAINO SCRATCHES AT A BAGLAMA (A TURKISH VARIANT OF THE GUITAR/BOUZOUKI FAMILY) AND IS BACKED BY OREN AMBARCHI ON THE TRAPS AND JIM PLAYING A BROODING BASS. FOR ABOUT 10 MINUTES I AM VAGUELY PUZZLED AND IT ISN'T HAPPENING: THERE IS NO MAGIC. IT IS JUST AN ANIMAL LOOKING FOR A HOME.
THEN IT JUST WEIRDLY COHERES AS SOME ELECTRONIC STUTTERING COMES IN. FOR A FEW MINUTES THEY'RE REALLY COOKING WITH THE SAME KIND OF ASTRAL MAGIC OF ANY GREAT BAND AT THEIR BEST (IT REMINDED ME OF THE SUMMIT MEETING BETWEEN LSD MARCH AND BARDO POND ACTUALLY).
O'ROURKE AND AMBARCHI, FROM WHAT I CAN TELL (AND THEY MIGHT TELL YOU OTHERWISE), SEEM TO BE HAPPY TO FOLLOW HAINO'S LEAD AND PROVIDE ADROIT AND APPROPRIATE BACKING. TRACK TWO (ALL THE SONGS HAVE LONG TITLES THAT I CANNOT BE BOTHERED TO REPLICATE) FOLLOWS THE SAME PATTERN - SOME INSCRUTABLE AND NOT INTERESTING EVOLUTION AND THEN *WHAMMMO* THE SPARKS START FLYING. IT'S FREE ROCK THAT ACTUALLY FVKKKN ROCKS!
I TELL YOU IF THEY CAN SEE THEIR WAY CLEAR TO EDITING THE DULL BITS DOWN AND GETTING TO THE BIT WHERE THEY'RE MOMENTARILY THE GREATEST AND MOST EXCITING ROCK BAND OF THE DECADE I WILL LOOK FORWARD TO THESE COLLABORATIVE RECORDS SO MUCH MORE. TRACK THREE GETS TO IT A BIT QUICKER AND SUSTAINS IT FOR LONGER, WHILE THE FINAL PIECE GETS STRAIGHT TO IT.
THIS WAS SO CLOSE TO A CERTIFIED: GOOD.
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