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Title: Outside of expectations.
Review: This album is a bit of an enigma-- John ZOrn and Yamantaka Eye in duet typically perform with a fire and energy quite uncommonly found-- this record instead is largely an ambient album, with atmosphere and noise synthesis far outweighing energy.This isn't to say there's not quite a bit of interesting music on here, opener "Eep Man", featuring lounge sax and Eye's punctuated screams is certainly catching, and "Propoltion" is fantastic, but mostly its Eye chanting ("Test Tube"), moaning ("Thank You For Not Thinking", "Pulp Wars"), babbling ("Damascus") or whimpering ("Yoga Dollar") over samples and ambient sounds. And then there's the infamous "Bad Hawkwind"-- 18 minutes of sampled and looped Eye screaming that seems kind of amusing at first but starts grating.Its not a bad album, but its not particularly good either-- if you're interested in exploring the partnership of these two, check out the live set thats part of the Zorn 50th birthday concert series.
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