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This three way
collaboration is a real manic
attack on the sensors, yet it
also has great moments of alien
beauty too. The album mixers
deranged guitar runs, seemingly
impossible and space funked bass
patterns, complex and battering
percussion, and the odd shot of
demented vocal attacks too. The
11 tracks with-in bring together
one part Acid Mothers
Temple with Kawabata
Makoto on guitar and the
duo of Sekkutsu Jean
which consists of Tatsuya
Yoshida (Ruins,PainKiller,ect)
handling drums/vocals and Kenji
Sato on bass and vocals. And
I guess the best way to try and
describe it is a collision
between funk rock, avant rock,
jazz and rock elements but all
forced at you in a manic and
deranged manner. But there are
also moments of great atmosphere
and strange beauty appearing here
and there through out the album
too; take the emotional bass runs
meets spacey guitar uttering with
strange nonsense operatic alien
vocal batter of track six Vokkoshmmra.
All parties concerned play
with great passion, flare and
musically precision with Kawabata's
guitar work been fiery yet
focused, Yoshida drumming
been manic & complex, but for
me the star of the show is Kenji
Sato who performs mind
bending feats with his bass going
from; derange and virtuoso, to
harmonic and atmospheric, to
funky and brain bending.A great
on the edge of your seat ride
through out with these three
showing playfulness, sonic
overload & atmosphere. Really
Breathtaking and invigorating
stuff.
Roger Barry / www.musiquemachine.com/
Looks to
be another one of the many side-projects
of Acid Mothers Temple's head
honcho, guitarist Kawabata Makoto.
Other players on this import CD
are Sato Kenji-bass & vocals
and Yoshida Tatsuya-drums &
vocals. Best described as noise-metal.
Might be too noisy for some.
Couple of these tracks I thought
that had managed to stand out
from the rest were the jamming
"Werghsukaxgh", the
sort of Gong-ish "Vokkoshemmra",
the frantic "Aathychkiwzhi"
and "Jombhssquiram".
Might possibly appeal to open
minded fans of Ruins, {obviously}
Acid Mothers, Infectious Grooves,
Buckethead and maybe even early
Korn. Certainly an acquired taste.
Beautifully done cover art. /
Mike Reed
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