The notorious Japanese songwriter/singer and experimental performer Keiji Haino brandishes his voice in an intriguingly engaging way, where he spins a number of vocal timbres faster than the way he spinds his notorious long hair on live stage, on the occasion of this impressive release with Zeitkratzer that its director Reinhardt Friedl spoke about on a recent interview for our zine. The outstanding approach to compositions by means of sometimes sinister intersections of amplified instruments, which got mainly played with extremely detailed extended techniques by a massive ensemble - including Marc Weiser (acoustic noises), Hilary Jeffery (trombone), Hild Sofie Tafjord (French horn), Frank Gratwoski (clarinets), Maurice de Martin (percussions), Burkhard Schlothauer (violin), Anton Lukoszevieze (cello) and Friedl himself on piano -, perfectly matches the color-shifting voice by Keiji who fluently handle the possessed shouting and screaming of "Ghost", the faintest lyrical heights of the piercing high pitches of "Roses", the Gollum-like idiosyncratic chattering and the sequence of hissing and hoarse scratching on "Smashine", the schizophrenic chirping of "Birdy", the otherworldly gasping and the alien timbres of "Wet Edge" - the track I like more! - and the freaking mutations of "Cryogen". A really wild assay of sonic beauty!