i have to agree with Efren, the new locus solus recording is better and more fun than i would have imagined. i do like arto's art-damaged brazilian thing, but to hear him torturing his guitar again is a real treat, and he's pretty funny to boot. it's an avant good-time. sean Although I never managed to get into the original Locus Solus (I think I've never listened it until the end), I find this new live recording amazing. Here I do hear rock as a true pillar of the group's sound and I feel it as some sort of threshold to Naked City or Painkiller. It sounds like an actual power trio, with amazing improvisations and heavy guitar skronk. This is the Arto I've wanted to listen for ages, unlike his electro-bossa-samba eluccubrations. Needless to say, Zorn's great and Fier has also been a nice surprise. I had only heard him with the Lizards, if I'm not wrong.