Debut PSF album from this improvising trio based in Tokyo. Bon no Kubo appeared on the Tokyo Flashback 7 compilation and released their first album, 1^st, in 2008. A trio of guitar, contrabass and percussion, the group take inspiration from the Incus label and Company Week ethos while extending it into specifically Japanese modes that “aim at the sublime”. Some of the playing is fairly aggressively nuanced and the interaction is unequivocal but there’s also a sense of space, of distance, that gives the music a baroque grace, even as Naoto Yamagishi disembowels the cello and Masahiko Ota darts across the guitar. Shrunken LP style sleeves with obi and insert.