First ever live album from the world-beating trio of Keiji Haino, Kan Mikami and Toshi Ishizuka in a limited edition of 1000 copies in mini paper LP-style sleeves with obi. Haino's playing is at its most straight-forwardly beautiful, with soul-searing arcs of beautiful single-note bliss cutting high swathes through the heart of Mikami's black blues. There is a suite of songs that appeared on another Mikami CD that represents the most epic and emotionally-charged playing the trio have ever laid down and the way that Ishizuka triggers single martial explosions while Haino illuminates the space above him has exactly the same electrifying spirit/force of the Albert Ayler Orchestra. There are moments here that are so outrageously epic, just increasing peaks of vertical tone-on-tone, that it's almost overwhelming and when Haino joins Mikami on vocals it feels uniquely cathartic. The tongue-in-cheek blurb on the disc best sums it up: "With a combined age of 171, the most powerful geriatric rock trio in the world." And it's no mere hubris. In the absence of Fushitsusha, they might just be the greatest rock band in the world. Best Vajra ever. Highest possible recommendation.