Tima Formosa captures a January 2009 performance at The Playhouse in Kitakyushu, Japan with Ambarchi on guitar, O’Rourke on prepared piano, and Haino on vocals, drum machine, flute, and electronics. Over the course of three pieces that stretch out to 60 minutes, the trio creates a mesmerizing and terrifying sonic structure that patiently grows and delights with its subtleties. The 25-minute opening piece is a slow-burner, gradually building and absorbing with tranquil pulses, shifting static, deep bass drops, and the clangs and scratches of O’Rourke’s prepared piano technique. What sounds like a million furious spirits dragging chains across a metal killing floor doesn’t rupture the trance as much as promote it, and when Haino’s chilling vocals enter just after the 11-minute mark, the trajectory shifts unquestionably heavenward. Even his most grotesque, tormented, and gut-wrenching screeches and screams are angelic, dreamily drifting above the vibrant landscape of dark, textured sound.
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