Günter Müller and Lê Quan Ninh are both improvising percussionists who have worked increasingly with electronics over the past few years.

In January of 2000, Müller and Ninh traveled to CCAM in Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France and recorded four hours worth of material, from which the 75 minutes contained on this CD has been carefully selected. The title was inspired by a passage from L'Eau et les Rêves (Water and Dreams), a book by French philosopher Gaston Bachelard. The two musicians demonstrate their seemingly limitless palettes, slipping back and forth between percussion and electronics to create endlessly inventive systems of sound.

"The collaboration of these two percussive pioneers offers some of the most inspired performances I have heard by either musician to date.  While not minimizing the quality of any of their other superb records, this seems to be a culmination of their history.  Muller and Ninh are percussionists of two very different styles, and that is this record's strength- the sparse to the dense, the electronic to the acoustic . . . a wonderfully dynamic ride."-- Tim Barnes

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Zeug Für Schlagquartett (Schlagquartett Köln)

do (Toshimaru Nakamura and Sachiko M)

Bits, Bots and Signs (Otomo Yoshihide, Norbert Möslang and Andy Guhl)

VHF / Extracts (Graham Halliwell, Simon H. Fell and Simon Vincent)