Recorded in the same year that saw the release of the Triple Echo trilogy, Triple Echo Live is the document that completes the picture - the drone project of Jojo Hiroshige brought to the stage, unfolding in real time before an audience. Issued by Alchemy Records on CD in an edition of only 100 copies, it has remained one of the most elusive entries in the noise legend's vast catalog.

Hiroshige needs little introduction. Born in Kyoto in 1959, he founded Hijokaidan in 1979 - the band that, more than any other, defined the terms of Japanese noise - and launched Alchemy Records in 1984, the label through which much of the country's most radical music first reached the world. Yet Triple Echo, a project he had reportedly nurtured for three decades before committing it to record, reveals an entirely different side of his artistry. Where Hijokaidan is saturation and collapse, Triple Echo is patience - a single guitar tone, split and refracted into three distinct voices that hover, waver, and slowly drift against one another. Captured live on February 14th, 2017 at Tokyo's Uplink Factory, the album comprises a single long-form work, Triple Echo From Inner Mind Dream Music. Stripped of the studio's safety, the music takes on a heightened physicality - the guitar's harmonics beating against the room itself, minute fluctuations of pitch opening into vast interior spaces. It is drone music of remarkable restraint and concentration, closer in spirit to the sustained-tone traditions of La Monte Young or Phill Niblock than to anything in the noise canon, while remaining unmistakably Hiroshige's own - the King of Noise listening inward.