Conjoint/Studio Pankow and Born Under a Rhyming Planet's Jamie Hodge and cult duo Salenta + Topu re-interpret tracks from Andrew Pekler's "sentimental guitar" LP 'For Lovers Only / Rain Suite' on this low-key, intimate epilogue, which has been bundled up with a balmy additional track from Pekler himself. Utterly lovely stuff for quiet evenings - you know the vibe.
A cult entity that's been gracing these pages for close to 3 decades, Jamie Hodge grabs the whimsical riffs and shimmering tones from Pekler's 'Rain Nr. 33' and adds his own electric piano vibrations, reducing the blustery original to an exquisite shimmer. Noisy, saturated outbursts are turned into faint whispers, and Hodge keeps the mood horizontal, using Pekler's woozy swells like brass to punctuate his wiry melodies with a sprinkle of high drama. Pianist Salenta Baisden and cellist Topu Lyo meanwhile use the philosophical core of Pekler's 'Rain Suite' pieces to inspire a new composition, working in the same way as they did on the brilliant 'Moon Set, Moon Rise'. Salenta's homespun spinet piano improvisations lend an extra weight to Pekler's fragile melodies, and Topu replies with nuanced, elongated bowed tones that rock back-and-forth in the distance.
Pekler's own extra piece 'Waiting For The Tide' is a winner, more hypnotic and restrained than the album's tracks, but utilising the same palette. Over washy environmental recordings, he loops fragmented guitar melodies and restrained exotica curlicues that wobble like a capsized rowboat.
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Conjoint/Studio Pankow and Born Under a Rhyming Planet's Jamie Hodge and cult duo Salenta + Topu re-interpret tracks from Andrew Pekler's "sentimental guitar" LP 'For Lovers Only / Rain Suite' on this low-key, intimate epilogue, which has been bundled up with a balmy additional track from Pekler himself. Utterly lovely stuff for quiet evenings - you know the vibe.
A cult entity that's been gracing these pages for close to 3 decades, Jamie Hodge grabs the whimsical riffs and shimmering tones from Pekler's 'Rain Nr. 33' and adds his own electric piano vibrations, reducing the blustery original to an exquisite shimmer. Noisy, saturated outbursts are turned into faint whispers, and Hodge keeps the mood horizontal, using Pekler's woozy swells like brass to punctuate his wiry melodies with a sprinkle of high drama. Pianist Salenta Baisden and cellist Topu Lyo meanwhile use the philosophical core of Pekler's 'Rain Suite' pieces to inspire a new composition, working in the same way as they did on the brilliant 'Moon Set, Moon Rise'. Salenta's homespun spinet piano improvisations lend an extra weight to Pekler's fragile melodies, and Topu replies with nuanced, elongated bowed tones that rock back-and-forth in the distance.
Pekler's own extra piece 'Waiting For The Tide' is a winner, more hypnotic and restrained than the album's tracks, but utilising the same palette. Over washy environmental recordings, he loops fragmented guitar melodies and restrained exotica curlicues that wobble like a capsized rowboat.
Conjoint/Studio Pankow and Born Under a Rhyming Planet's Jamie Hodge and cult duo Salenta + Topu re-interpret tracks from Andrew Pekler's "sentimental guitar" LP 'For Lovers Only / Rain Suite' on this low-key, intimate epilogue, which has been bundled up with a balmy additional track from Pekler himself. Utterly lovely stuff for quiet evenings - you know the vibe.
A cult entity that's been gracing these pages for close to 3 decades, Jamie Hodge grabs the whimsical riffs and shimmering tones from Pekler's 'Rain Nr. 33' and adds his own electric piano vibrations, reducing the blustery original to an exquisite shimmer. Noisy, saturated outbursts are turned into faint whispers, and Hodge keeps the mood horizontal, using Pekler's woozy swells like brass to punctuate his wiry melodies with a sprinkle of high drama. Pianist Salenta Baisden and cellist Topu Lyo meanwhile use the philosophical core of Pekler's 'Rain Suite' pieces to inspire a new composition, working in the same way as they did on the brilliant 'Moon Set, Moon Rise'. Salenta's homespun spinet piano improvisations lend an extra weight to Pekler's fragile melodies, and Topu replies with nuanced, elongated bowed tones that rock back-and-forth in the distance.
Pekler's own extra piece 'Waiting For The Tide' is a winner, more hypnotic and restrained than the album's tracks, but utilising the same palette. Over washy environmental recordings, he loops fragmented guitar melodies and restrained exotica curlicues that wobble like a capsized rowboat.
Conjoint/Studio Pankow and Born Under a Rhyming Planet's Jamie Hodge and cult duo Salenta + Topu re-interpret tracks from Andrew Pekler's "sentimental guitar" LP 'For Lovers Only / Rain Suite' on this low-key, intimate epilogue, which has been bundled up with a balmy additional track from Pekler himself. Utterly lovely stuff for quiet evenings - you know the vibe.
A cult entity that's been gracing these pages for close to 3 decades, Jamie Hodge grabs the whimsical riffs and shimmering tones from Pekler's 'Rain Nr. 33' and adds his own electric piano vibrations, reducing the blustery original to an exquisite shimmer. Noisy, saturated outbursts are turned into faint whispers, and Hodge keeps the mood horizontal, using Pekler's woozy swells like brass to punctuate his wiry melodies with a sprinkle of high drama. Pianist Salenta Baisden and cellist Topu Lyo meanwhile use the philosophical core of Pekler's 'Rain Suite' pieces to inspire a new composition, working in the same way as they did on the brilliant 'Moon Set, Moon Rise'. Salenta's homespun spinet piano improvisations lend an extra weight to Pekler's fragile melodies, and Topu replies with nuanced, elongated bowed tones that rock back-and-forth in the distance.
Pekler's own extra piece 'Waiting For The Tide' is a winner, more hypnotic and restrained than the album's tracks, but utilising the same palette. Over washy environmental recordings, he loops fragmented guitar melodies and restrained exotica curlicues that wobble like a capsized rowboat.