Peder Simonsen

Peder Simonsen & Jo David Meyer Lysne: Spektralmaskin

by Glenn Astarita
July 29, 2024

Strap yourselves in, spectral travelers, for a journey into the sonic labyrinth that is Peder Simonsen and Jo David Meyer Lysne's Spektralmaskin. This album is not background music for folding laundry. Simonsen and Lysne weave a tapestry of sound that is both unsettling and strangely beautiful. Imagine a haunted music box possessed by a playful but melancholic ghost. Per the press release: “(The word spektralmaskin, Norwegian for 'spectral machine,' is Lysne and Simonsen's attempt to encapsulate the e-bow ...