Otomo Yoshihide - Guitar Solo: What do you think?

Did anyone else get this? It's from a concert in Tokyo last October. I've been playing it quite a bit. In a way, it's a little like Bailey's Ballads. Most obviously, it's solo electric guitar. It's also about an interface between noise and melodies - and like Bailey, Yoshihide tackles some jazz tunes as well (Ellington's "Mood Indigo", Garner's "Misty", and while it's clearly not the same thing, Ornette's "Lonely Woman") though he mixes them in with his own compositions. As with Bailey, some of the quiet parts come off as quite simple and (presumably) deliberately 'crude'-sounding, with muted notes, sometimes string buzz, and possibly microtonal tuning. Generally, the normal parts sound a bit more 'normal' though. And the biggest difference comes in the 'noise', which often consists of blasts of screaming feedback here, providing extreme and abrupt dynamic contrasts to the 'low-key' parts. On the whole, I think these make it a bit easier to follow, while also giving the album a unique quality in terms of mood. At the end, we are given a gift of one of Otomo's trademark ear-warping high sine tones.

(He makes a point in the liner notes about how a ladybug in the room ended up on the mic during "Lonely Woman", turning the piece into a duet. I haven't really noticed the insect so far but I haven't been listening closely for it.)