Skronkmeister Arto Lindsay and power-drummer Paal Nilssen-Love met for a short, impromptu live set in Rio de Janeiro in April, 2013. That session was pressed in an extremely limited vinyl edition that had the fancy art crowd scurrying for the counter at a Guggenheim Museum reception for a Christopher Wood exhibit that featured a second meeting of Lindsay and Nilssen-Love as well as Joe McPhee guesting with Nilseen-Love's phenomenal trio the Thing and readings by Richard Hell.

Happily the duo has continued playing together and that first document has been made more widely availble. Scarcity, no longer as scarce as it was at first, is a shining example of No Wave for the new age. Its two tracks (one 19 minutes, the other six and a half) comprise a stunning, pounding, screeching, scraping, screaming set of blistering improvisation. Lindsay is, of course, a phenomenal innovator, his self-taught style owing nothing to anyone. Nilssen-Love is remarkably adept at finding, dropping and ignoring rhythms, always pushing and always camoflaging the drive. It makes for an awfully brief CD (the vinyl is pressed with one side at 33 and the other at 45) but really no more is needed. Part of the energy of the post-punk No Wave movement came from brevity, from not slumbering in one's own sound. They are in and out again, and thankfully still at it. No more may be needed but that doesn't keep one from wanting.