Reviews:
(Vital Weekly) Quite a surprise to see Mathias Delplanque working with someone else. I didn’t know he did that. Its one Oldman, who plays acoustic bass, electric guitar and objects, whereas Delplanque plays laptop and objects. This album contains recordings made in September 2007 and has no overdubs. An album of improvised music, which may also be something different for Delplanque. I have no idea if his laptop picks up the sounds produced by Oldman or wether the two plays by themselves, interacting to eachother playing. In either case the end result is a mixed bag I think. The third and fourth part for instance is a mix of various objects being played and with some distant reverb makes a nice piece. However the first two parts were not that well spend on me. It seems to me that they are searching here, getting at ease with eachother, finding the boundaries. Free music, with cymbals being played, adding field recording like sounds and its a bit of a long stretch to follow these pieces. Not bad,
half of it at least, but not great either. Probably the format of CDR suits this best. - Frans De Waard
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