Nehan are a Japanese Free improvisation avant garde jazz quintet fronted by Masaki Batoh, this album is all about free improv along the 9 hertz brainwaves causing automatic creation or something along those lines.
The a-side or Nehan Side opens with some gong work with duck calls, trembling bells shake your brain, as you tune into the 9 hertz brainwave oscillations, dislocate your normal rhythms as the cacophony envelops you. A kazoo keeps a steady tone as the timpani works up enough of a storm against the pots and pans being struck, Drilling noises interject between the monumental drumming, ready for the bagpiper to play elongated tribute to Ayler's ghost invoking all sorts of Spiritual Unity alongside the distressed percussion. As tablas battle against the kinetic drum fusillade attempting to accent the bagpiper's tonal shifts.
Ocean Side begins as if you are sitting on a beach and the tide is coming in, the bells are sounding like it's unsafe to go in the ocean, rumbling thunder storm clouds gathering as gulls scream out warnings, The sound of an oil tanker slowly moving across the horizon, as pipers gently try to restore some semblance of normality, the wind howls a distress signal, the calm interlude lulls you into a false sense of serenity, rumbling thunder and the first drops of rain impinge on your serenity, twittering sandpipers getting overwhelmed by static laden radio interference, sending unintelligible messages in need of translation, as a train careens down the beachside railway in tribute to Station To Station's intro with added rumbling thunder.
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