Downbeat

Norwegian guitarist Grydeland makes an impressive boundadry-erasing sound with Tanaka, who plays Japanese futozao shamisen. In this free-improv session, recorded in a venue near an amusement park (a roller coaster os sporadically audible), the players forge dynamic interplay of nasal, damped strings and tangled, ringing harmonics that´s exhilaratingly jagged and tactile.