wonderful collaboration between the Belgian musicians, Gilbert Isbin on guitar and Gert Verbeke on percussion. Verbeke generates hypnotic soundscapes using a kaleisdoscope of exotic instruments such as: Prepared Piano, Berimbau, Himalayan Bowls, Kung Zee's and Caxixi. Isbin's guitar hovers and darts percussively over this heady brew. Using jazz and blues ornamentations and figures, flamenco hits and beautiful fingerstyle technique, Gilbert Isbin gets his guitar to improvise a kind of dance which weaves and darts in and out of Vebeke's mystifying soundscapes. This has a hypnotic and entrancing effect on the listener. Twin is avant garde in the best sense, in that goes right 90% of the time.
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