Montreal-area's Mystery and Wonder Records duo of Elizabeth Millar on clarinet and Craig Pedersen on trumpet met sound artist Tim Olive in Tokyo's famed Gok Sound studio to record these absorbing electroacoustic improvisations, employing hand-made microphones in metal and wooden tubes, corrupted consumer sound devices, and electro-magnetism through analog circuits.
"Three people in a room. Hand-made microphones thrust into metal and wooden tubes, consumer cast-offs transformed into home-made sound-generating/altering devices, electro-magnetism fed through simple analog circuits, sounds amplified and recorded. No overdubs, very minimal editing."-845 Audio
"Usually the sparring partners of Tim Olive, magnetic pick-ups player pas excellence are musicians who are also at the edges of radical improvisation [...] we find Olive playing with Montreal based duo of Elizabeth Millar and Craig Pedersen, respectively on amplified clarinet and amplified trumpet (see also elsewhere). The latter two also go by the name Sound Of The Mountain, but not here, for whatever reason I am not entirely sure they don't go by that name here. In October 2018, the three of them met up in Kobe and recorded three pieces, which are here described as using "hand-made microphones thrust into metal and wooden tubes, consumer cast-offs transformed into home-made sound-generating/ altering devices, electro-magnetism fed through simple analogue circuits, sound amplified and recorded". Compared with the work I heard from Sound Of The Mountain, I would think they go out on an even more radical approach here; most of the times one doesn't recognize the instruments Millar and Pedersen have, or just a faint trace thereof. The radical approach doesn't translate in extremer music, oddly enough. It becomes quieter and distant, with everybody on his or her guard. The 'noise' is reduced to small sounds culled peeps, hiss, crackles, forming gentle drones, moving slowly around; in and out the mix, they slip slowly away. Sometimes it all is a bit louder, but throughout the work, delicacy is very much the keyword to the three pieces here, even in all its roughness. Excellent release!"-Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly