Plug and Play: Evergreens

Lonely moods permeate the duet recording between Benoit Delbecq, who plays piano, e-drumming, keys and “tronics”, and Jozef Dumoutin who brings in a Fender Rhodes along with keyboards and tronics. As expected, there’s more noodling around than a Japanese soup house, with gobs of synthetic percussion and piano scattering about as on “I Had a Dream About This Place” and “Cortex Rewired.” Techno percussion and electronic journeys get echoey on “ Sonate Pour Un Printeps Meilleur” and a dash of keyboard blues crop up during “Saint Denis Appetizer.” Lonely piano takes the forefront on “Le Déjà vu” and “The Pictures That Got Small,” but for the most part it feels like a reunion of Fripp and Eno, just with shorter compositions.

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