Beautiful, evil, peaceful
Allan MacInnis | Vancouver | 02/25/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Fred Frith should need no introduction -- an avant-guitar genius who has getting more and more interesting with each release; I don't KNOW who Kato Hideki is, the bassist; and drummer/drum machinist/sampler-person Ikue Mori is one of the most underrated and exciting avant garde composers around. This album, their second collaboration together, works indeed as ambient music, though at times gets a little raucous. It has an evil, decadent sheen on it, but it's beautiful music no less, particularly the absolutely lovely and delicate first cut, "Pink Jewel Anemone Cluster." One of the ESSENTIAL Tzadik releases, in my book, and beautiful music to fall asleep to -- it comes from the same amoral, intoxicated, and uncontrolled place as the most interesting of dreams, with only the slightest hint of nightmare at the edges."