Here we have a collaborative CD from two giants of experimental Japanese music, noise shaman Keiji Haino and guitar/electronics madman K.K. Null: the self-titled album from their one-shot project MAMONO, issued in 2006 by the Blossoming Noise label in a one-time edition of 1000 copies. Mamono is an intense study in musical construction and deconstruction. Seven untitled tracks are featured, adding up to over an hour of music... though as John Cage so memorably said, "You don't have to call it music if the term shocks you." Null puts his guitar aside for the occasion, focusing on electronics, while Haino takes his guitar out for two tracks... and they both take on the drum kit at different times. Track 1 sounds like an experiment gone wrong: Null's textured sound effects layered upon Haino's pained, screaming vocals. At the 5'40" mark, the whole track warps into an unstoppable vortex that consumes the listener whole. Beyond that point, it's pure genius/madness. Track 2 develops Aphex Twin's Bucephalus Bouncing Ball, a study in echoes and reverbs, to interesting results. Haino moans as both Null & Haino set off a firework of stuttering electronics which culminates in Haino yelping and retching helplessly. Track 3 is an experimental mash-up of Haino's drum kit, background screams, and Null's sparse sound effects. Track 4 is similarly inclined, but with Haino's electric guitar joining the fray and Null on drums. Track 5 is an onslaught of piercing feedback complimenting haywire, discordant guitar riffs, drums and vocals. Tracks 6 and 7 are unstoppable mayhems of voice, electronics, drums and drum-machines -- so dense, so incredibly complex that you might need a nap to recover. It's a bracing racket from two experts at making them. The CD comes in a custom black folder, printed with vegetable-based inks using both traditional letterpress & offset printing methods. This copy is sealed and stone mint.