Igor Ogogo is back, we’ve been reviewing this guitarist a while ago and here we’ve another chapter of his saga but this time it’s a duet with a midi-trombone player called Rod Oakes. The outcome is quite bizarre even thought I’ve found traces of Ogogo’s peculiar style. A strange cocktail that puts together jazz, Canterbury-music, kraut, blues and late seventies-early eighties atmospheres. Usually I don’t go mad for midi instruments cause of their sound, but here the combination is overall good and fits well with those freaky, odd melodies. Both of them are twisting the sound of their instruments for the sake of weirdness, thus the trombone floats with echoes and the guitar quite often is filtered with what I suppose it’s a pitch-shifter. Weird, during the listening of this odd cd it brought to my mind memories of no-wave mixed with Eliott Sharp and Faust, just a bit more bluesy. As I’ve said there’s something quite bizarre pulsing underneath and it probably has to do with the dark-alien melodies they play. Stylistically their way of playing betrays many of their influences but if melodies still mean a thing, there’s something quite disquieting in this music. While the cover suggests something really seventies like Gong or "Who by numbers" the music brings in a misty atmosphere of a distorted reality. Hey, if music is strictly linked to the times in which it has been conceived, all of this abstraction is a clear sing of the times. We’re crossing a sort of new middle age of mind and hard times like these require a good dose of abstraction, I agree with Ogogo and Oakes.