Julian Lynch and filmmaker Amy Ruhl first collaborated on Lynch's Seed video from his proper debut album (Orange You Glad) on Olde English Spelling Bee. Around this time, Ruhl was beginning work on her first film, an animated, allegorical biography of the courtesan, dancer & spy, Mata Hari. Spurred from talks about a using gamelan to score the film, Ruhl asked Lynch to contribute songs to the film & he delivered five new instrumentals. Drawing on both Indonesian music and his own bedroom psychedelia proclivities (with a bit of 1970s Pharaoh Sanders tossed in for good measure), Lynch's songs came to anchor key scenes in the film.

After a string of set-backs & reboots, Ruhl is finally poised to unleash How Mata Hari Lost Her Head and Found Her Body upon the world. Soft Abuse is pleased to release Julian's songs in celebration of this wonderful film. The 7' EP includes four of Lynch's compositions, with the fifth, Bow to Shiva, included on the gratis accompanying download.