Photos by Helen F. Kennedy

"One of the most powerful moments of the whole set arrived in the form of 'Hammer Blows', which on the record is a well-intentioned but not terribly interesting semi-acoustic ballad, but which was here moulded into a ferocious assault of wildly bowed guitar from Ranaldo, the hair on the bow being more or less shredded to mere whisps by the intense scraping against his guitar's metal strings; the relatively laconic Licht, ordinarily exuding a calm, earnest exterior in spite of the intensity of his fingers, responded by thrusting his guitar toward Ranaldo's own, the pair creating a cacophonous, but mostly controlled, demonstration of the shapes that distortion is capable of creating."

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