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Paratactile PLE 1110-2 'Glass Cage'

"In the goldfish bowl of free improvisation and experimental rock, Glass Cage's linking of Shoji Hano, Hugh Hopper and Gary Smith represents a titanic trio of Crosby Stills and Nash proportions. Hano debuted on Japanese traditional drums at the Kokura festival in 1963, at the age of four, and hasn't stopped pushing himself since; Smith wrangles strange sounds and runs out of his guitar that would shame a speed-metal band; and it's a revelation to hear Hopper's distinctive "fuzz-bass" unfettered from the more structured shapes of the 1960's jazz-rockers Soft Machine."
Stewart Lee The Sunday Times

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