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damn, this is a gorgeously layered, forest-y groove. a charmed ambient glow makes this easy to listen to, but its really a rewarding close listen. more serious, solid music!

hey Michael! when this things breaks open a third of the way thru, it rides a really powerful wave right to the end! it’s an exciting and really well-made song. my fav perf from the pair of you yet!

combustible sprit-music, man! you sound good playing on the dirty side, here — it’s a nice revelation to hear ‘hancock’ without the bright finish that characterizes his electronic stuff. the bruised knucks are just massive on that bass right outta the gate, and the funk flows well with the jazz. crazy good stuff!!

wow, stephen, chill but restless and full of strange portents. has a grandness with worn cuffs. an artfully contained abstract, thru a crystal ball, darkly.

i tell you, once there bookstores made to hear this in. kilgore was here. shoot me now. musing and really quite wroth you bookworm. i’ve been looking for a decent copy of r brautigan’s trout fishing in america, highly rec’d. and now i want to get my hands on kv’s non-fiction stuff, much of that i haven’t read for some reason. this stunning subversiveness gets in my blood, brother!

it sure has a haunting sound, devastated and disembodied. the strings were really damn splendid. much respect.

dang man you got a great range of good music in this project! respect.

pensive, quietly dissonant, fatalistic, then rising to rise with the risen. or is it rising against the risen? please continue!

wow, this is stirring music, a planet-sized plea for a better planet. terrific work.

mockery, but with a kinda sympathetic side, this is really cool listening. i admire the way you constructed this nice deconstruction!

i agree, the drums sound great and the dynamics between instruments echoes in a canyon of black holes. majestic music, my friend!

like a watercolour, immersive and translucent music.

yo bud! genuine feels all up and down this groove. funk is all about the collective dirt, and uh you got it! that rising bass line is wild, man. good to see you!

hello there Michel, good to see you guys in top form. this is great torchy music that pulls out the stops — is stagy but smart. i’m hearing a john barry touch in that arrangement!

tinysong, huh? i really dig the format and delivery. that’s when i reach for my microscope. fine stuff, man!

morphagenic and really groovy track, DTFCAS!

wild. seriously dizzy mix. the illness of it all!

this collaboration continues to develop, it’s a rich, strange addition to your set. i think you two are really pushing each other further out. there’s no turning back!

wow, Maj, i really dig this experimental style, your sound design is amazing. if pirate radio still exists (and i know it must in the burned-out shelled cities and farms and deserts and plastic-choked oceans and melted poles of this planet) then this is what needs to be playing on it.
damn, my friend, them are wicked fx!

yo, J! it’s all in the swing, man! that transition is mindblowing but organic (shrooms, aha), the whole thing sounds like a breeze, which is a helluva thing to pull off. ace track!