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With Drums
Richard Foster
, March 12th, 2021 08:49
Rutger Zuydervelt’s lockdown project, stitching together bursts of stick work from the likes of Tony Buck, Greg Saunier, and Yuko Oshima, proves an insightful glimpse into the downtime of musicians, finds Richard Foster
If any record ever needed to be chosen to demonstrate the protean nature of making or listening to music, then I would suggest you listen to Machinefabriek’s
With Drums. The often fleeting auditory qualities of Rutger Zuydervelt’s latest release, crammed full of percussive divertissements, let us do a multitude of things. We can ignore the record, or pay passing reference to it whilst doing something else. We can quickly process what’s going on (it’s Machinefabriek with lots of contact-book pals, and drums, from other pals), and consume appropriately, in our allotted digital spaces. We can also indulge ourselves and play footsie with it by decodifying the witty titles, or dive fully into the wormhole t