There’s something almost mischievous about releasing a 7” like "Shall the Days Float Through Our Eyes" in an age of endless files and infinite scroll. Otto Lindholm - alias of Brussels-based double bassist and composer Cyrille de Haes - opts for brevity, tactility, and restraint, as if to say: you don’t need a cathedral to feel the weight of stone, sometimes a well-placed brick will do. These two short pieces feel less like tracks and more like apertures: moments where sound opens, looks around, and then quietly withdraws before it explains itself too much.

“Lissitzky” arrives with an almost architectural confidence. The prepared double bass is multiplied, delayed, folded back onto itself through desynchronised loopers, creating planes of tension that feel drawn rather than played. You can sense the industrial space breathing along with the music - walls listening, balconies humming back. It’s a piece that doesn’t move forward so much as it assembles itself in mid-air, all angles and pressure points, a reminder that abstraction can still sweat. “Skelton”, on the flip side, loosens its grip. Grainier, slower, and emotionally exposed, it feels like the echo after an argument you’ve already lost: not dramatic, just honest. The bass here doesn’t assert; it hesitates, allowing silence and decay to finish its sentences.

What makes this release quietly compelling is how it compresses Lindholm’s broader practice into miniature form. His long-standing interest in resonance, density, and embodied listening is fully intact, but reframed through scarcity and impermanence. Each lathe-cut copy is made in real time, slightly different, imperfect by design - an elegant contradiction in a culture obsessed with identical reproduction. There’s no grand statement here, no manifesto shouted from the rooftops. Instead, "Shall the Days Float Through Our Eyes" offers two fleeting immersions that linger longer than expected, like light caught in dust. It doesn’t demand your attention; it earns it, briefly, and then lets the days keep floating.