field recordings and guitar

thoughtful expansions of it

these gestures that allow us to search for the human measure

formed by his homemade pre-drum machine rhythm generators

” Stereogum likewise praises the album as one that is “full of suspense…

RUBEN MACHTELINCKX & FREDERIK LEROUX - When The Shade Is Stretched LP thrash metal field recordings and guitarA split album is a marriage of autonomous partners. On each side of the vinyl, one artist presents a limited selection of music. Both sides relate to each other, but they do not intertwine. On Aspens first split, guitar brothers Ruben Machtelinckx and Frederik Leroux each contribute twenty minutes of solo performance. Both Machtelinckx and Leroux make use of the oating sounds of the banjo, but in a quite distinct way. While the former presents a