This DVD is a archival document of an early (1987) show by wide-eyed mystics Maher Shalal Hash Baz at Kid Ailack Art Hall, Tokyo and captures the innocent joy and rapturous invention he brought to their music. The visuals provide a rare and valuable opportunity to pick apart the working methods of one of the Japanese underground’s most truly original and agile thinkers, Tori Kudo. In Maher Shalal Hash Baz, he took the heterophonic voicings, the deliberately fluctuating rhythmic mis-steps and the non-unison unison so characteristic of Japanese traditional music and re-applied them to idiot savant mini-hymns arranged for electric guitar, euphonium, ocarina and organ. It’s a music that exists in a unique world of its own.