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Mandala Cat Last

... "Fifth studio album from the heavyweight PSF super-group of Keiji Haino, Kan Mikami, and Toshiaki Ishitsuka. Veterans all, the group members have a combined playing career of virtually a century. The group has been in a state of suspended animation for the past four years, but this album will hopefully kick off a new phase of activity for them. What makes Vajra unique is its bizarre energy dynamic. Entirely improvised, the three players seem to shoot off in utterly opposing directions: Mikami's rhythm guitar and vocals providing a pulse universal to no one but himself, Ishitsuka beating martial time signatures like three military bands on the one parade ground, and Haino scuttling around slicing and dicing beautiful abyssal depths out from beneath everyone else's feet. Somehow (proof that space is curved?), three individuals arrive at the same place at roughly the same time. Highlights include the third track, which comes as close to their massive live sound as anything the group has yet recorded. And the set's inevitable eyebrow raising moment? The accappella nursery rhyme version of Mikami's 'Koppu wa kowareru daro' (off Live in the First Year of Heisei vol.2). Another uncompromisingly great one then? You bet." --Alan Cummings. Format: CD

Label: PSF

Catalog: PSF129

Origin: JAPAN

Listed: 2002-08-22

Price: $20.47

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