I've been listening to this album for quite some time already and still I don't seem to get even closer to understanding it. Disc contains almost 50 minutes of sounds and is placed in a neat, screenprinted arigato pack, covered with fancy patterns, schemes or something like that. There are 20 minutes of sound from Japan, Spain and 10 minute long joint track. Even a person who is not too much into noise, most likely heard K.K.Null or Zeni Geva names. Several albums of the latter progressive hardcore band, started by Kazuyuki Kishino, were even produced by legendary Nirvana's producer Steve Albini and the band overall was quite well acknowledged worldwide. K.K.Null is one of the most famous names in Japanese noise scene together with Hijokaidan, Merzbow (they were playing together for some time) and so on. So after a wave of praise, I must admit that neither Zeni Geva nor K.K.Null were never those projects that I would be too excited about though I started to get used to and even like that pure experimental sound of K.K.Null while listening to this album. His input to the disc is one long 20 minutes track. There is so much happening during these minutes and so much to hear and witness that even quite a big part of double CDs do not have that much varied sonic information in them. It feels like observation of a scientific experiment. It is not something that you feel, that is particularly beautiful or stimulating. No. But it is very interesting. Complex sound structures, collages with parrot voice transforming into orderly curves of noise generator output; human words, suddenly being covered with glitch and so on. It's a leaping, rising and sinking, continually evolving in weirdest formulas track, not divided into separate pieces though hardly continuous. Scumearth is easier to understand. He deals with more emotional side of sound. Comparing his 3 tracks to the first 20 minutes of the album, his output sounds very simple and predictable. Mainly it's darkened buzzing of noise generators, existing somewhere between harsh noise, ambient and experimental. The last track seems weakest of all. When you take tracks of Japanese and Spanish artists, it is interesting in one way or another, but when you have their rather different outputs mixed together, you get a meal with good ingredients, but not too tasty final result. All in all it's an interesting disc with two pretty different musicians. It's quite weird though - after I started listening to this album, I liked Scumearth far more than K.K.Null, but the more I listened to it, the more interested seemed K.K.Null and the bleaker tracks of Scumearth. It's difficult to find a balance in this disc, but the attempt was well worth the time.

Format: CD
Released: 2012
Label: Phage Tapes,R.O.N.F. Records
Edition: 250