While I'm reviewing this as "the last recording of Koji Asano of the year", a new one is gonna be out by the end of the week, just to say that the brain cells of this japanese probably have no rest!. I know "hyper active" and "hyper prolific" are not always followed by "high standard", but Asano is the midst of his golden age, lately it seems like he has the "Midas' touch" or to quote the dear ol' Bad Brains: "the Supertouch". I think the main instrument manipulated on this recording is a big japanese bell (or something similar), those bell-modulations overwhelming the air during the listening from the very beginning give a religious/meditative atmosphere to the three (long) tracks. An all eastern calm gets twisted and redefined thru electronics and you're warned the state of trance is just behind the door. To say it all I think this one of the most relaxing record I've heard lately, ok, sometimes Asano plays a bit too much on each song, but the serialist/minimalist intention would revive the horniest dreams of Reich and Riley. I still can't understand if this "furious japanese" is getting the attention he deserves, but if the word quality still means something: I'm sure he will.