PATRICK SHIROISHI / ARTURO IBARRA
“LA Blues” C45
(Eh? Records)



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