After two years from its first release, Rumpistol (a.k.a. Jens Berents Christiansen) is back with a new album titled MERE RUM. If the first Rumpistol album was a sort of lounge music of the future, MERE RUM expand the concept by dilating the atmosphere and focusing the tracks on the ambience created. Musically the eight tracks ("Teddy 114" is only on the CD version of the album) are always composed using a blend of i.d.m. rhythms, ambient sounds and dub solutions (see "Vintertog"). On this release Jens introduce in Rumpistol the use of acustic elements such as guitars, saxophones, glockenspiels and melodicas which give to the tracks a certain warmth and dreamy atmosphere. The last song of the CD, "Vuggelise" is about nine minutes and it is a sort of Danish folk song mixed with dub rhythms which stops, leaving the space to i.d.m. improvisations just to start again passing through ambient music. After a couple of minutes of silence there's also a one minute ghost track that, with its dark ambience, closes the album. MERE RUM isn't an easy listening album because it gathers a lot of intuitions and sounds but after some listening sessions you can find new sounds and rhythms that you weren't aware of. An album to explore little by little...