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A single thirty-seven minute track in three distinct movements, recorded live (and possibly improvised?) in Wouter van Veldhoven´s digs on a summer day in 2007. Rutger Zuydervelt has worked with Mariska Baars and van Veldhoven before, but never to my knowledge on the same album. Their combined talents have produced a suggestive piece as sparse and sketchy as Baars´ cover art. The guitars of Baars and Zuydervelt are absolutely angelic and van Veldhoven´s deft tape recorder manipulations almost organic.
Over a discreet electronic mat, four distinct guitar notes repeat like the call letters of an off-the-air radio station as crackles and clinkings of sonic debris (courtesy of van Veldhoven´s "metallophone" I presume) inhabit the middle field. Out of this trash, a odd, pure innocent music box twinkle becomes increasingly prevalent, like random drops of water dripping on a xylophone left out in a summer shower.
In the meantime, the sweet notes of the guitar (or is it Baars´ heavily treated voice?) have a turned-inside-out,
running tape-backwards "Tomorrow Never Knows"-style. At twenty-one minutes, everything dissolves into a near silence which grows into a broad, engulfing drone, out of which in turn emerges avian cries reminiscent of Robert Fripp´s distant electric guitar before the five-minute-long shivering denouement.
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