"The title means something like 'early book print', and I am not sure that title means anything in relation to the music. Koch plays 'reeds' and Demierre plays the spinet, which, as I have noted before is a most unusual instrument for improvised music. They recorded the eight pieces over two days in May last year in Biel, Switzerland. It is some wonderfully strange music in which both instruments are on display in a lot of different ways.

The spinet in 'But I've Been Living Here For A Long Time' sounds like a spinet you know from a film about knights, but right in the next track I would think Demierre treats it as an object, using objects to play the strings and it sounds like it has gotten the reel-to-reel tape treatment. Koch does something similar with his reeds but with him, it seems that is most of the times not as recognizable and his approach seems to be more abstract. I might very well be wrong of course. They bounce from something quite hectic ('But I Imagined Him Racing Madly Down The Beach To Dive Into The Surf') to a beautiful, quiet and introspective piece as 'But This Was All Kind Of New To Me'. It is this variation that makes this a great release.

There is an excellent interaction going on between both players and they both approach their instruments and music in a serious and open way. The experience they bring to the table is all too clear."-Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly