It's been a while since I have seen Wingdings used as a font for the titles, but here we are. Dragon & Jettenbach is a collaboration between Peter Adjobia (Dragon, Edgewood) and Paul Jetten (Jettenbach). I was familiar with Jettenbach, but not Dragon, so I was interested to see what this collaboration sounded like, especially since he was involved with a disc on World Serpent (remember them?) back in the day. So what is the Roche Limit? According to the liner notes, it is "the point at which one celestial body can no longer maintain its own gravitational self-attraction and disintegrates due to the gravitation and tidal forces of a second celestial body." So let's get heavy and dive in.

We kick the whole thing off with "<>°•," which is a buzzy droning soundscape with thudding percussion buried under the drone. Quite nice. ")°)•" keeps the spacey feeling going but has more of a new age composition feel to it, where the first track was more abstract. In keeping with the theme of this disc, it would fit quite well in the soundtrack to a documentary about astronomy. There is a subtle repetitive bass line that gives the whole thing a sense of movement and holds it all together.

If the previous two tracks were the two celestial bodies floating through space and just moving along in a standard trajectory, ")) ))" is where everything starts to fall apart. This is noisy and dissonant, but never quite reaching the level of noise. Everything is coated in a thin layer of static and the music buckles and crackles occasionally. This would be like taking a dark ambient track and playing it through a homemade transistor radio with a broken speaker. It's an interesting counterpoint to the previous two tracks and gives a sense of the versatility of these musicians.

Overall, if you like spacey music with a bit of an edge to it, this will be up your alley. They illustrate how space is not always the calm, peaceful void that we often think of, but also a place in which powerful forces are constantly threatening to tear everything apart.