amalgamation

Digipack CD"

One of the most tripped-out albums you'll ever hear from Japanese keyboardist Masahiko Satoh - and that's saying a lot, considering some of his other avant sessions of the 70s! This one's a really free-form jam - recorded so that each of the two long tunes takes up a side of the record apiece - one with really full-on, frenzied noise - courtesy of some ring modulators played by Satoh, undercut with some really heavy drums from Louis Hayes, a surprising entry for a session like this! Side two has a sound that's a bit more organic - some spare percussion at first - but the record then moves into noisier territory too, and even features some cool scatting female vocals."