Tsurubami
Kaina

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"Yet another entry into the exponentially increasing catalogue from Kawabata Makoto comes outside of the realms of The Acid Mother's Temple. Tsurubami has supposedly had a couple of releases, but this super lo-tech CD-R from Last Visible Dog is the only one that we've been able to track down so far. Fellow Acid Mother's Templar Higashi Hiroshi brings his bass to Kawabata's guitar, alongside the newcomer Emi Nobuko on drums. The album opens in similar fashion to Kawabata's "Father Moo & The Black Sheep" album, with a synthetic wash of pitch-shifting / multiverb guitar tones. Slowly these ambient tonalities develop into shimmering fragments of melody half appearing, then dissolving into kosmische haziness. Emi rattles out quiet tinklings across his ride cymbals, which starts off somewhat subdued, but gradually approaches the Fushitsusha arena of freenoise percussion tumble once the full drum kit is employed. Kawabata and Higashi maintain the dronescape mentality for about 25 minutes, before kicking the distortion pedals into overdrive and unleash a dense wall of sound to accompany the percussive squallor. Where the first track is delicate and gradual, the second is immediate and brutal. Cantankerous distortion from overblown bass and guitar join the continuous splutter from Emi. This is a really, really good Acid Mother's Temple related project... it really deserves more than just cd-r status." --Aquarius Records

"The first of the two tracks here starts on a surprisingly quiet note. Whispering waves of low-key atmospheres and moods drip out of the speakers and seep into your cranial cavity for 25 otherworldly minutes. Despite its static nature it keeps on moving and progressing, but that still doesn't prepare one for the abrupt transformation and tumultuous harsh ending. Five minutes of the rock we've come to expect from fellow countrymen Fushitsusha is always welcome to these ears. The second track, a lot shorter, still stretches out over ten minutes. It's a cataclysmic fireball of unimaginable intensity that feels like it's going to expand forever until it suddenly dissolves into the massive black holes at the centre of the fourth galaxy. How can you resist that?"

--Mats Gustafsson, The Broken Face