Boyd Rice, a.k.a. NON, released his first ever DVD, which is also the first DVD release by the funnily name Soleimoon sub-label Caciocavallo. This DVD includes a live performance of NON in Osaka, Japan, where Rice recites his war anthems and other mostly military related lyrics in his SM57 while four drummers hammer and bang the skins of four oil-can-shaped cattle drums (the only other instrumentation was an ancient tibetan horn and pre-recorded sounds such as bell tolls, various recordings and lots of samples of speeches and movies). Unfortunately the quality of the video is very bad. Although the camera was on a tripod above the crowd and occasionally the operator moved the lens back and forth to close up on Rice and them zoom out to get the whole stage, the bad (as in almost absent) lighting doesn't help at all and the overall quality is just terrible (pixel effect). In spite of all of this, the importance of this performance is undeniable (and the dozen of bootlegs that were made of it in the past 15 years is proof of that) mostly because it was the first time that such a star-studded line up came together: Michael Moynihan (Blood Axis), Douglas Pearce (Death In June), Tony Wakeford (Sol Invictus) and Rose McDowall (Strawberry Switchblade), who sings one short piece and who at the time was living in Japan and was extremely popular thanks to her band.
The DVD also includes two short movies by Rice: "Invocation (One)", which shows a black and white masturbation of a she-male; and "Black Sun", which is an occult color-patch-art-work of svastikas and was premiered at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1996.
Finally "Live in Osaka" makes up for the poor video quality of the show with an interesting commentary by Rice (recorded specifically for this DVD and containing lots of useful info and funny stories) as well as shots from Japan and Europe showed as slides with terrible music.
This DVD is region-free (so you can play it all over the world without restrictions) and also contains a tour diary written by Rice during his 1998 European tour with the Austrian band The Blutharsch.