Timo van LUIJK & Kris VANDERSTRAETEN
“Costa Del Luna”

2007. “Vanderstraten and Van Luijk have played together before, but unlike their previous album “High Noon”, “Costa Del Luna” sees them both in a slightly different setting, more austere and carefully erected out of dusty late night encounters. Here the musical outcome is less AMM inspired and more bordering on ethereal planes that are reminiscent of France’s OM or Bertoia’s sonic worlds cross-breeding with an almost “Musik Fur Alle” era Anima aesthetic. Just like a reptile’s tail is a remnant of a long lost revolution, the duo here also slowly feeds of each other’s tiniest gestures and articulations in sound in order to trigger in response panoramic sound clusters that float somewhere between a poetic resonance of skeletal music and a shamanistic sense of poetry, all encapsulated in sonic molecules drifting in between your speakers. One of the best discs to have been released in that unholy year 2008, but again nobody seemed to notice it. Take my word for it, this record has the gift for unexpected impact, busy folding and manipulating the dead space that resides between your ears. Housed in a very beautiful jacket, with the inside lined out with imprinted shrimps floating against a blue toned background. Gonna be a major one in years to come, so mark my words. Awesome!” (Johan Wellens, Tiliqua Records). 400 copies, sleeve has printed shrimp pattern on the inside.” label info