Recorded one year after this international trio’s first release (Tima Formosa BT04), In a flash everything comes together as one there is no need for a subject presents the entirety of a live performance that took place at SuperDeluxe, Tokyo on January 24th 2010. For their second performance together, the trio opted for an entirely different instrumental configuration. The dark improvisations of Tima Formosa were produced with Ambarchi’s signature electric guitar, O’Rourke on inside-piano and Haino primarily on vocals and electronics. Here they form a classic power trio: Ambarchi on drums, O’Rourke on bass and Haino on guitar, vocals, electronics and, in one amazing passage, lap steel. While the instrumentation has changed, the mysterious atmosphere of their first collaboration remains: far from a rock genre exercise, this performance is steeped in the dark ritualistic mood that characterizes all of Haino’s best work. Haino is in truly phenomenal form herein, foregoing the single-instrument explorations of much of his recent solo work and his more peripheral role on the trio’s first release for a virtuosic and wide-ranging performance that takes in piercing leads, delicate strumming, jarring lap-steel interjections and his inimitable vocal caresses and howls. O’Rourke’s bass sometimes merges with Haino’s guitar to form crumbling walls of noise, at other times his dark ostinatos and runs add melodic weight. Ambarchi’s drumming moves from delicate, propulsive cymbal work to endless thundering streams of free-pulse pounding. The title of the release is appropriate: from the spacious and unpredictable slow-mo interactions of the first piece (reminiscent of some of the greatest Fushitsusha moments) to the wild free-riffing that concludes the performance, the trio seems uncannily attuned to one-another’s movements, and everything truly ’comes together as one’. Recorded At – SuperDeluxe Mastered At – Classickxs Lacquer Cut At – Dubplates & Mastering Published By – Field Code Music Published By – Touch Music Copyright © – Black Truffle Records Copyright © – Medama Records Pressed By – MPO Artwork [Cover Image] – Marco Fusinato Bass – Jim O'Rourke Design – Stephen O'Malley Drums – Oren Ambarchi Guitar, Voice, Lap Steel Guitar [Lap Steel], Synth [Air Synths] – Keiji Haino Lacquer Cut By [Cut By] – Rashad Becker Management [Logistical Support From] – Akiko Miyake, Soshi Yamaguchi* Mastered By – Casey Rice Photography By [Live Pics] – Ujin Matsuo Producer [Concert] – Mike Kubeck Recorded By – Masahide Ando Text By [Album And Song Titles] – Keiji Haino Recorded live at Super Deluxe, Tokyo, January 24, 2010 Mastered at Classickxs, Melbourne Cut at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin "Cover image by Marco Fusinato Rose #9 from A Dozen Roses 2006 digital type-C photograph on Fuji Crystal Archive paper 139 x 93 cm framed edition of 5 Courtesy the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne" Logistical support from Akiko Miyake (CCA Kitakyushu), Soshi Yamaguchi (Fostex Company) Jim O'Rourke is published by Field Code Music (BMI) / Oren Ambarchi is published by Touch Music (MCPS) A Black Truffle / medama co-release ©2011 Black Truffle Records / medama records Gatefold sleeve with each record housed in a printed inner sleeve.