*2025 stock. 100 copies limited edition* Frans de Waard and Sindre Bjerga are well-known for conjuring intensely captivating ambient dronescapes from rather lo-fi sources, both as solo artists and in their duo Tech Riders. The trio line-up heard on this album, however, came about when Sindre Bjerga and Fabio Orsi were working together for a week as part of the Brombron residency at Geluidwerkplaats Extrapool in Nijmegen. During that time, they had an impromptu meeting with Frans de Waard on 10 October, 2013. We are very happy that more than a decade after the recording, we can now present the resulting album to the public.
As the title implies, this album has a lot to do with changing the perception of time. In the beginning, there is pulse, even rhythmic sounds approaching something like a beat, and there are voices, indistinct but of human origin, no matter in what language - “sound ghosts hidden deep in the molten magnetic tapes,“ as Sindre Bjerga once described his practice. The voices seem to anchor the ever-drifting, pulsing sound in some sort of reality outside the music itself, and the beats seem to be an invitation to keep time, to count forwards. But the longer we listen, the more the beats melt into harmonic flourishes, the voices fade into static noise, the anchor is up, and we are adrift in a cosmic flux in which it really becomes difficult to tell whether time runs forwards or backwards. The combination of sound sources and the beautifully balanced interplay between them make this an extremely rich, colourful example of psychedelic drone ambient by three masterful practitioners of the craft.