Review of RonRuins CD Ketsunoana    Back to RA Home  Back to Press Kit 

From the French Music Magazine Foetus Oct/Nov 1998

Written by Julien Ottavi  Translation by Lawrence Yamazaki

Amazing meeting between the awesome guitarist of The Molecules, I have named the mad genius of the guitar, the Frank Zappa of modern times: Ron Anderson, and the maddest most eccentric Japanese duo, with the most insane drummer: Ruins. When these characters decide to do a few sessions together, the result is a music containing a heavy dose of madness called RonRuins.
For more than ten years, these guys have been plowing the earth and the vinyl with great strokes of rhythmic and electric power, and finally, today, in the challenge of the century two monsters of free music defy each other in single combat on stage and in the studio. Music is getting seriously battered, imagine what a Molecule grafted to Ruins can do, you can't?
Well let's say that Ron Anderson brings the "free" side to RonRuins with his guitar and his Tex Avery style of singing - and the Ruins bring a lyrical side as well as a strong supportive, if not extreme rhythm section. Even if the Ruin's touch is still noticeable (especially on some cuts) the general impression is that the structures are organized by a meat grinder. That is to say that there are numerous breaks in the rhythm in an extremely short time. The whole album keeps the Ron Anderson touch of "Let's go everywhere at once" but on the whole it is an even exchange where the Ruins' bassist occasionally reappears with his 6 stringer to speed up the rhythm or bring it to overdrive at 200 miles/hour. Coming to tour France this coming November, these promise to be most deranged concerts of the fall season, the record is worth it, so live - get ready - it's going to splash!