RUBEN MACHTELINCKX & FREDERIK LEROUX - When The Shade Is Stretched LP

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RUBEN MACHTELINCKX & FREDERIK LEROUX - When The Shade Is Stretched LPA 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

It was storming that morning

conferences

the same location used for the ‘Eternal Hails’ album

The concerts

tom-heavy percussion provide the bedrock groove for Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo's ferocious barrages of noise-guitar crunch

‘in its [Ultan’s fiddle playing] sincerity of tone it reminds me somewhat of those great caoineadh which were played with such elusive grandeur by Denis Murphy and Pádraig O’Keefe’

while examining the roots of PMA

made from crystal clear synth-lines and levitating ambiences

but at the same time it doesn't have the force of the zeitgeist behind it

West is a masterful songwriter whose vocal and instrumental prowess can be traced back a decade to swathe of solo and collaborative projects

and unheralded

since its inception in 1989

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