Dirk Serries, born in Belgium in 1968, has spent four decades circling the same idea from different directions: the long tone and what happens inside it. Between 1984 and 2007 he worked as Vidna Obmana, a Serbian phrase meaning optical illusion, and made some of the most widely heard European ambient and drone records of those years, often with Steve Roach, Asmus Tietchens or Bass Communion. He retired the name, turned to the electric guitar as Fear Falls Burning, and more recently moved into free improvisation, in duos and small groups and in a continuing series of solo acoustic guitar recordings. His own imprint, A New Wave Of Jazz, now gathers most of that work.