Keio Line (2-CD)

by Richard Pinhas / Merzbow

4 stars out of 5 -- "Pinhas' playing sounds great here, full of lavishly expansive curlicues that spiral up into the sky before cascading back down in magnificent molten showers of glissandi."
Signal To Noise (p.64) - "[O]n KEIO LINE Akita progresses with great subtlety. He's more interested in pulse than whiteout, and often makes way for Pinhas to build loop upon loop until the whole thing's spinning in the air."
Signal To Noise (p.61) - "[B]eautiful, largely due to the filmy layers of plastic Fripp-esque guitars from Pinhas. He admirably coaxes different dynamics from Akita..."