AKIYAMA, TETUZI / OREN AMBARCHI / ALAN LICHT - WILLOW WEEP AND MOAN FOR ME (3"CD)

"There are plenty of albums which would greatly benefit from being edited to fit on a 3" CD, but not many 3" CDs which would improve for being expanded to album length. A happy exception to the rule is this intercontinental guitar trio's teasingly short debut, a 19 minute improvisation recorded live in (of all places) Wellington, New Zealand in 2004. A strikingly simpatico grouping, they patiently weave melodic twangs, wavering drones and looming hums into a reverb haze, offering a tantalisingly brief glimpse of an enticing modern post-Mazzacane free blues demotic. Surely an album is not too much to hope for?" (The Wire)