The guitars screech with maximum sustain, the cries of tortured strings wavering in the clouds like undulating invisible snakes. Music like this literally burns with a sonic fury. For the finale, the band delivers a 29-minute epic piece which explodes with fiery authority and locks onto your focus like a psychic laser. These 73 minutes represent the choicest material recorded by the pair. There is a vivid sense of kinetics to this instrumental music, as sharp melodies and passionate performances excellently convey the rush of downhill racing and conquering the sea waves.
Nimble fingers drive the slick guitars to cavort in the spray of percussion, bass and keyboards.
All of these delightful factors are compressed into compact songs to deliver maximum rush effect. In 1996, Djam's other guitarist Mike Henderson recorded 53 minutes of superb music in collaboration with percussionist Norma Tanega. While the guitars mainly involve acoustic strumming, there are some incidents of astral electric warcries, rarely venturing to any overt outbursts. The percussion is compelling, gripping without being frantic, luring you in with sinuous interweaving rhythms. The blend of these strings and impacts is a remarkably enhanced minimalism, producing emotional melodies which appeal as much to the head as they do to the feet.