*10 copies limited edition* Taking its name from a mythical region in modern-day Zimbabwe, loosely translated as “land of tall grass”, Guruuswa is a roughly hewn piece of freely improvised psychedelia and a significant renewal of a decades-long musical partnership.

Recorded live at Dash The Henge in London, the performance features Fr33zehead label collaborator Andi Jackson on taishōgoto and effects, alongside Beanie Bhebhe on drums and percussion. The piece opens with gently cascading, luminous tashigoto chords accompanied by shimmering cymbal textures. Over time, the duo chart a gradual incline heavenward into an ecstatic maelstrom of amplifier decimating heaviness and rhythmic chaos, reaching an ecstatic peak where dense layers of sound and turbulent rhythms tear like a monsoon through the tall grasses evoked in the title.

Jackson’s taishōgoto is the leading light of the piece, employing an array of harmonic and overdrive effects to create great masses of melodic texture that thrum with elemental force. Bhebhe’s bombastic drumming sidesteps many of usual free improv rhythmic techniques, focusing instead on textural cymbal work and towards the latter half of the piece, a series of densely layered interlocking tom and snare patterns that add a propulsive, almost ritualistic energy driven by some hidden internal logic.