Back to their tribal origins, The Creatures created this new chapter of their duo adventure in a particular way. During a pause of the last dates of their Siouxsie & The Banshees' Seven Year Itch Tour, they achieved the plan they prepared some time before: doing a recording session with Leonard Eto, composer and principal player with the Japanese Taiko drum troupe called Koto. The link has been the Ex Girl's producer, Hoppy Kamiyama, who knew Eto and knew that he welcomed collaborations with other musicians. On August 19 2002, in Tokio, Budgie and his new friends recorded a session into the GOK studios using the traditional taiko drums and a western drum set. The session took about ninety minutes (you can find it into the dvd of the HAI! special edition) and when he went back home in France, Budgie started to work to those sounds while Siouxie wrote some lyrics. HAI! is the result of those recordings with the addition of Siouxsie's vocals and of some few melodic tracks added here and there: marimbas, few synths sounds and something else. The nine tracks are sort of magical and bring The Creatures back to the days of "Feast" or to their first E.P. "Wild Things". Improvisation had a big part on the whole process and the result is amazing as all the work has got a special atmosphere. Listen to "Seven Years", the single "Godzilla" or "Imagoro"and you'll be convinced that this is one of their finest moments! Along with the CD comes a second CD (and a dvd into the special edition, as I already mentioned) where you can find eight out of nine instrumental version of the album tracks and where you'll appreciate even more these recordings!