We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.
/
  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Reverse board, 350gr wallet

    Includes unlimited streaming of Wisps via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 5 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      €8 EUR or more 

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      €5 EUR  or more

     

1.
Slink 02:35
2.
Foon 01:48
3.
Pummel 02:41
4.
Ruimte I 02:48
5.
Wisps 01:50
6.
Speling 02:24
7.
Sereen 03:34
8.
Ruimte II 01:39
9.
Folklore 03:10
10.
Mijmer 04:54

about

On 5 April 2022 I e-mailed Anne about working on a follow-up to our album Oehoe (released by Where to Now? Records in 2020). On April 7 she recorded a bunch of violin, viola and vocal improvisations at home. Gorgeous sounds and melodies, a gold mine to work with. The material basically wrote itself. I started editing and adding electronics (mainly virtual instruments, I don’t own a real harp), and by the end of that month, the album was finished.

I always found the music that Anne and I make a bit pastoral, or eerie. Thinking about a title, will-o'-the-wisp came to mind, a ghost light in folklore. It fits the elusive quality of the music, I believe. As shorter is always better, we went for Wisps.

The cover art is a collage by Wytske van Veen. She posted the work on her Facebook page when I was busy with the album, and I immediately made the connection with the music. I love it when things fall into place like this.

So here it is, 28 minutes of (in Mariska Baars’ words) ‘pwetty weeeird’ music. Hope you’ll enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed making it.

Rutger Zuydervelt, May 2022

credits

released July 1, 2022

Constructed by Rutger Zuydervelt,
Rotterdam, April 2022.

Violin, viola and vocals performed
and recorded by Anne Bakker.

Mastered by Marlon Wolterink at White Noise Studio.
Cover collage by Wytske van der Veen.

Pummel and Speling contain samples taken
from Don Cherry’s albums “Mu” First Part
and Second Part (©BYG Music, 1969/1971),
performed by Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell.

Ruimte I and II contain bits of a Machinefabriek
performance at De Ruimte, Amsterdam, 3 April 2022.

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Machinefabriek Schiedam, Netherlands

Rutger Zuydervelt

contact / help

Contact Machinefabriek

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Wisps, you may also like: