I cannot think of a more “fuck-you” tape to blast in your apartment building than this here “LA Blues” tape by saxophone-strangler, Patrick Shiroishi, and axe-sphyxiator*, Arturo Ibarra. The brute force and stamina exhibited across this 45-minute instrumental screaming-match is so nervous-system-jarring that the cover art for this release may very well be a pre-post-mortem sketch** of someone attempting to map out the two players’ utterances simultaneously in their head. Not for the faint of heart!
and/or
—Jacob An Kittenplan
*as in, guitar-neck choker
**as in, exact time of demise