Collaborating previously in Piiptsjilling and their duo "Drawn", Mariska Baars (Soccer Committee) and Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek) come together again for this exquisite album, the title translating to "water", a beautiful combination of electronic timbres and voice that weave together and drift, ebbing and flowing like a mysteriously elegant stream.
Label: Not On Label (Machinefabriek Self-released) Catalog ID: None Squidco Product Code: 27622
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2019 Country: The Netherlands Packaging: Cardboard sleeve, sealed Recorded by the artists. Mastered by Stephan Mathieu,.
"Mariska Baars and Rutger Zuydervelt go way back. And although they regularly work together in the quartet Piiptsjilling, their last effort as a duo stems from 2008, the album 'Drawn' (on Foxy Digitalis/Morc). But now eauis here. eau (pronounced "oh") means 'water' in French, and that's how it sounds; like gently rocking waves of sound, or like a babbling sonic stream of fractured audio debris. It also sounds a bit like the equivalent of sunlight dancing on the ripples of a lake's surface.
eau is not really a song, or a composition. Well, technically it is, but it functions more like an atmosphere that fills the space. Just let it play (on repeat...) and let the sounds hang in the room - let them coexist with any other sound that's there. Open a window if you wish! Or, experience the trip on headphones, let these soft tones, gentle voices, buzzes and crackles tickle the inside of your skull. eau was mastered by the one and only Stephan Mathieu, who made this carefully crafted audio patchwork shine even more."-Rutger Zuydervelt