Electric Sap is one of the soldiers and harmony deconstructionista of Mandarangan Recordings. This self-titled album is a challenging listen. There are disjoined and fractured guitar teasers throughout several tracks. Ultra-repetitive distorted and humming guitars are being pierced by dragging lead parts messing with static, grounded pick-ups, plugs, guitar strings scraping, harmonics, perverted palm muting, plutonian blues scale and feedback. Electric Sap weaves hunting effects  with sparse arrangement, experimentation with triangle waveform, untuned-drenched guitar bits and pieces... then everything stops unexpectedly. It is a mixture of rhythmic noise and free-for-all improv standing alone or hovering above low-pitched drum beats, percussive taps, rusted swing and raking sounds.  Crispin Garcimo / GAZ WEBZINE

According to the cover this was “Recorded long time ago at some place. Mastered 2002 by Jason.” I find that statement to provide a strange dichotomy between informative and vagueness. Anyway, I guess that you didn’t read this to hear about that stuff. Electric Sap is an experimental band that has enough equipment and most importantly all of the imagination needed to kit-bash together something puzzling and entertaining. I hear a lot of guitar in here, played in the most unconventional of ways. There is percussion in places. Some of the tracks swing more towards the musical side of the pendulum, others get a bit noisy and chaotic (forsaking the rules and structure of format music). No matter what is going on here, it is understood that you will not come across anything else like it without some very thorough searching. Some of this is a little hard on the ear, but it’s worth the pain in the end.  NEO-ZINE