I love the cover, & music just rips! VVV

Ritsu Katsumata approaches her hot pink electric violin the way Jimmy Page approaches the guitar, merging disparate musical styles -- classical, blues, gypsy, metal, and her native Japan -- with equal doses of aggression and mysticism. Recorded in NYC with an impressive rhythm section (fleet-fingered bassist Gbatokai Dakinah and the phenomenal Flemming Rothaus on skins), Jungle has a taut, downtown-funky-artsy feel, akin to things you may have heard by John Zorn, Soul Coughing or Bill Laswell...

Ritsu, the post-modern Goddess of Electric Violin, will probably never become your favourite CD and will probably never see the hind-site of the top-10 charts... But, somehow, I do not think that she cares to entertain the masses.."In her hotpink electric violin and deconstructed kimonos combined with haunting gypsy melodies [and an abundant sprinkle of Classical music, the Blues, Japanese folk tunes and Metal rock], and urban beats Ritsu redefines an old instrument's role in the modern world." She is an artistic nut that constructs and deconstructs the music using the bow of her violin as a scalpel and suture. In this deconstruction of sounds she creates a new beauty that is rare, attractive, raw, untameable and gloomily unique. This is not music for the weak, conformist pop-head couch potato. This is avant-garde stuff for the lovers of adventure and mental stimulation. Two extremely exciting CD's...