Their latest album is almost an hour in length and contains only three cuts. In a live setting, their pulsing, building, genre-bending music is highly contagious. On record it also sounds great, but you wait for something monumental and it never comes. Katsui's and Yamamoto's musical relationship is similar to that of John McLaughlin's and Jerry Goodman's in the old Mahavishnu Orchestra: the two soloists sound as if they're merely trying to keep up with each other; there's not a whole lot of tradeoff. And while space has plenty of room for silence and...space, most of the second track consists of winding down from the first one. However, once they regain their footing they cook. They're a groove outfit by nature, it just takes them a while, and they should be the perfect band to close out another memorable Fuji weekend.
RED MARQUEE, 7/30, 3:45 am

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