Chicago-based Kevin Drumm and Montreal-based Martin Tétreault traveled in separate musical circles, each unaware of the other's work, until a Chicago-based organization, Lampo, booked Tétreault for a concert with Drumm and the ubiquitous Jim O'Rourke in September of 1999. While Tétreault was in Chicago, he and Drumm spent some time in the studio, and this CD contains the results, as recorded by TV Pow's Todd Carter.

"The often brittle, overwhelmingly tactile sounds which Drumm and Tétreault produce are so finely intertwined that it is an act of futility to guess whose thwacks, crackles, pops, hums, and squeaks are whose. The duet's enjoyment practically oozes from their savvy interactions, as they rigorously reach deeper and deeper into themselves and their instruments to find new noises. But even as they forage, their sense of purpose is never lost. This is free improvisation of the highest level; stunning proof of imagination transcending scrap-heap technique."-- Peter Margasak

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