RUBEN MACHTELINCKX & FREDERIK LEROUX - When The Shade Is Stretched LP indie That cool water blessing stayed

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this release distills her tactics of spontaneous composition into her most concise song cycle to date

Threading together twelve distinct episodes into a flowing whole

That's the perfect armony between melody and noise

creating an album that is comforting and tranquil

RUBEN MACHTELINCKX & FREDERIK LEROUX - When The Shade Is Stretched LP indie That cool water blessing stayedA split album is a marriage of autonomous partners. On each side of the vinyl, one artist presents a limited selection of music. Both sides relate to each other, but they do not intertwine. On Aspens first split, guitar brothers Ruben Machtelinckx and Frederik Leroux each contribute twenty minutes of solo performance. Both Machtelinckx and Leroux make use of the oating sounds of the banjo, but in a quite distinct way. While the former presents a