...a glance over roads passed reveals to me that i and joseph have consistently worked on something or other since we met in New Mexico a little over 10 years ago... his incarnation as Sidanik meeting mine as Saiko (there is an album of that worthy to appear, "from crater to curve") buried in the archives of KUNM; he played bass kendang in the only realization of my only scored piece for (extremely spartan) gamelan orchestra in 2003 (never managed to record it); he particpated in a production of Djalma Primordial Science; we met again in Liege, Belgium, after he took the name Luperci and i was either being Jeff Gburek or that thing you old myspace-cases might recognize as Aenigmaplasme-- i notice, here in my recounting, we encounter the issue of names: he refuses to be an Angelo and I refuse to be Gburek-- the angel and grumpy dwarf, combined. We spent some time in Berlin and, par for the course, in Berlin, it's not easy to remember what actually happened, other than those laments over lamentable loves. Luperci came hot out of the sheets with a vinyl release on Cold Spring (or just distributed by them, I guess), after a long hiatus in the Indian sub-continent, while I sweated it out in Eastern Europe-- he landed in De Gaulle; they lost his sitar in transit (Yannick Franck knows the story)... he got it back via hassles in Brussels, played Tannenbaum (or maybe Shaved orange?) in Berlin and came to Poznan, played on the salon's table here, just back of me as I type this; that day we also laid the track that wound up on "the watermark" cd... and now just a few years later there's this... recorded in the same room...