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Paratactile PLE 1101-2 'Tohjinbo' - Derek & The Ruins

"Tohjinbo documents Bailey's most recent encounter with the Ruins duo, Tatsuya Yoshida and Hisashi Sasaki. This is a seething, volcanic session in which Yoshida's restless drumming and Sasaki's anarchic bass treatments cascade and roar beneath the rippling sheets of noise let loose from Bailey's guitar. The trio's forward momentum is as irresistible as an advancing lava stream. In this session, it's not so much a matter of testing the firmness of the ground beneath your feet as it is about dancing on molten brimstone. You have to do it every now and again, just to prove to yourself that you're still alive. The Derek playing here with The Ruins is not a man withdrawn at all, but one strangely at peace with himself amid the noise and flying metal."
Ken Hollings The Wire

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