Bleep

Diving into Keiji Haino’s earlier discography, Black Truffle marry a noise piece from 1973 with the original album issued in 1994 of his shortlived band Nijiumu with Tetuzi Akiyama and Takashi Matsuoka. When I sing... swims in freezing wails of reeds and the constant wash of cymbals, with distant electric guitar echoes rippling and creeping through thickets of strings. It’s a hallway of dissonance where sounds morph into ringing dulcimer tones, haunting owl calls and crackling firework-like winds, before being totally ripped apart in the blast furnace turbulence of the 4th movement.