Chris Dreier and Tim Löhde (aka MK/CT) have been swapping musical snippets while no one was paying attention, bridging their respective homes of Berlin and Düsseldorf via a familiar motif in the field of experimental ambience and electronics: the movement of water. The Rhine and the Spree, but nothing in the titles or field recordings would point in an obvious way to this fact; rather, it is the fluidity of the compositions – their specific drift – that feels undeniably hydrous, for lack of a prettier adjective. 

What’s more, the way in which the individual pieces migrate from interiors like the robotic voice in an elevator on “MK7 Shieldfields” to the reverberations of that most conspicuous of field recording locales, the tunnel (“MK6 Tunnel”), we are certainly moving inside and out, without encountering much in the way of a border or solid boundary in the process. What does recur on the first side of this LP is a piano and said field notes, processed with the utmost attention to circularity and refrain.