It's a beautiful and brilliant evolution in Jesu's already accomplished career. Jesu shoots for the moon with a trio of fuzzed-out tunes that owes more to first-wave British shoegaze groups like Swervedriver and Ride than Broadrick's own roots in Godflesh and Napalm Death. Already fans of each other's music, the two artists sought to compliment each other and in the process stretched their individual sounds to their outermost limits.

and Hydra Head Records, we find a match made in heaven with the ethereal, grandiose dirge-pop of Jesu splitting sides with stately, deserted majesty of Eluvium. Quote from: Temporary Residence For the second installment in the collaborative series of split albums between Temporary Residence Ltd. Hirayasu and Brozman both have a lot of charisma, and that proves to be mutually beneficial on this excellent CD. Brozman brings plenty of blues, rock, and Hawaiian influence to the session, and that works for Hirayasu because the Okinawa native is hip to blues and rock himself. What the duo does with the songs isn't entirely traditional, however. So it isn't hard for them to find common ground on 'Akata Sun Dunchi,' 'Chinnuku Jushi,' and other traditional Okinawan children's songs that Hirayasu selected. Hirayasu's foundation is Okinawan music, which contains both Japanese and Polynesian elements Brozman, meanwhile, is considered a master of the Hawaiian guitar and is no stranger to the sounds of the Pacific Islands. Forming a duo, the two prove to be highly compatible - and when you think about it, they're a logical combination. Quote Recorded on the Okinawan island of Taketomi, Jin Jin/Firefly documents a rare encounter between Okinawan singer/sanshin player Takashi Hirayasu and acoustic guitarist Bob Brozman.

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