Onna-musha severs up two slabs of wall noise brutality from this long-running & prolific California-based project. The release takes its name/ theme from Onna-musha (女武者) which refers to female warriors in pre-modern Japan, who fought in battle alongside male samurai's.

This is a self-released digital affair- with the cover artwork taking in a black-and-white picture of an Onna-musha in body armour. The release can be found here 

Both tracks come in at dead on the twenty-five-minute mark, and are both untitled. The first ‘wall’ is built around a rapidly racing mixture of a set/ simplistic rolling bass drone and skittering to judder static tone. Together the textures certainly create a feeling of raging into battle, and at points, the tones/ textures felt rather akin to something from Merzbow’s album's Sphere or Houjoue in its use of drum tones, though of course, they are way more simplistic/ set here.

The second track blends a slight caught bass rumble with a jittering ‘n’ racing static feel. Again the whole thing is very speeding in its intent, though this ‘wall’ maybe feel a little bit more murky & slightly subterranean in its attack. And we also get the occasional moments of audio trickery- as the focus seems to shift between the tones, and at points they sound slightly shorting in their flow.

Onna-musha is another example of brutal, simplistic, yet effective walled noise from Koobaatoo Asparagus- with the whole thing having a rather neat/ intriguing theme.