For this album"Wild Note", invited are the specialists of Japanese traditional music including Korei Deguchi (Yokobue), Ryuji Yuri (Hichiriki), and Keita Orimoto (Shakuhachi). As very well represented by the title track"Wild Note", the whole album is resonated with roughness and toughness of straightforward rock, featuring violent Odaiko sounding like a giant oni (Japanese ogre) stamping the ground. Also featured are harsh sounding Hichiriki and subtle Shakuhachi and delicate Yokobue. Excellent performances of these traditional instruments explore deeply into psychedelic and meditative arenas, instead of staying safely inside of easy and predictable crossover between rock and Japanese traditional music. As if in defiance of Odaiko's ground shaking sound, Hichiriki leisurely strides, while Shauhachi and Yokobue are dancing high up in the sky. The beauty of chaos is twisted out of stirring improvisation between modern ambient guitar and Odaiko. When Japanese concept of ma - exquisitely good timing - destabilizes the hypnotically recurrent rock beat, the whole soundscape is filled with mysterious reverberations, out of which bursting is pure essence of rock. Contradicting elements achieve ecstatic unification throughout the album to constantly shake the listener's sensitivity. To listen to"Wild Note" can be likened to journeying through a large sensual painting depicting panoramic sprawling scene in hell. The deep aftertaste of listening to this album may be a lingering sensation of having touched a fragment of darkness embedded in the soul of Japan. Also included are more simple and nostalgic Japanese tunes, such as a beautiful ballad called"Cry Not" with lyrical piano and Shakuhachi's pastoral melodies, and an ambient tune featuring silky transparent Yokobue called"Circle".