Eddie Prévost, Ken Ikeda

The whole moon rests in a dewdrop on the grass is a single forty-two minute duo between Ken Ikeda on electronics and Eddie Prévost on percussion, recorded live in London. It belongs to the quieter, metallic side of Prévost's work outside AMM, bowed cymbals set against electronics, and to his long run of duo encounters released on Matchless. Ikeda had played with him before, in a trio with guitarist John Russell heard on the 2016 digital release In Search of Wasabi.

The concert took place at Café Oto on 8 January 2018, billed as a rare duo set. Ikeda, born in Tokyo in 1964 and based in London, is a composer and sound artist who has recorded for Touch and composed for David Lynch. He has worked with improvisers such as David Toop and Tetuzi Akiyama. Reviewing the album for The Free Jazz Collective, Nick Metzger heard Prévost set the piece in motion with cymbal shimmer and bowed overtones, then alternate slowly building resonance with sharp scrapes. Ikeda often plays a ribbon controller, which makes his electronics unusually expressive, and leaves plenty of room rather than dominating. His sounds range from satellite-like pings with quick decay to delayed, modulated feedback that Metzger linked to the production sense of King Tubby and Lee Perry. He described the whole as "a woozy phantasmagoria of electronics and bowed metal" (2019).

Published by Matchless Recordings in 2018 as MRCD 99, on CD.