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当店で人気を博した架空の短編映画サントラ[Short Scenes]を制作した、Machinefabriekと女性バイオリン/ヴィオラ/ボイスパフォーマーAnne Bakkerによる最強コンビの新録！！しかも高内容なタイトルが多いMachinefabriekのプライベートリリースものとして登場！！Anne Bakkerの自宅にて膨大な量のバイオリン、ビオラ、ボーカルの即興演奏テイクを録音、それを軸に様々とエディットし不穏な牧歌アルバムを作り上げたという、毎度の如く非常に作り込まれた内容。バイオリン、ピアノの美麗メロディーが出現したかと思えばヒステリックな擦弦やら音響が飛び出したりと、スリリングなミックス具合が最高にクール。







On 5 April 2022 I e-mailed Anne about working on a follow-up to our album Oehoe (released by Where to Now? Records in 2020). On April 7 she recorded a bunch of violin, viola and vocal improvisations at home. Gorgeous sounds and melodies, a gold mine to work with. The material basically wrote itself. I started editing and adding electronics (mainly virtual instruments, I don’t own a real harp), and by the end of that month, the album was finished.

I always found the music that Anne and I make a bit pastoral, or eerie. Thinking about a title, will-o'-the-wisp came to mind, a ghost light in folklore. It fits the elusive quality of the music, I believe. As shorter is always better, we went for Wisps.

The cover art is a collage by Wytske van Veen. She posted the work on her Facebook page when I was busy with the album, and I immediately made the connection with the music. I love it when things fall into place like this.

So here it is, 28 minutes of (in Mariska Baars’ words) ‘pwetty weeeird’ music. Hope you’ll enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed making it.

Rutger Zuydervelt, May 2022