"Despite its title, In Bed We Trust is not a lazy album. While far from hyperactive, it's a very delicate collection of precise improvisations recorded by Canberra's Shoeb Ahmad (who besides being one half of Spartak has released solo records on labels such as Low Point, Cook an Egg and sound&fury) and Sydney's Adrian Klumpes (formerly of Pivot, currently of 3ofmillions and creator of 2006's beautiful Be Still album).
Ahmad's processed instrumentation is all over opening track 'Prologue'
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"Despite its title, In Bed We Trust is not a lazy album. While far from hyperactive, it's a very delicate collection of precise improvisations recorded by Canberra's Shoeb Ahmad (who besides being one half of Spartak has released solo records on labels such as Low Point, Cook an Egg and sound&fury) and Sydney's Adrian Klumpes (formerly of Pivot, currently of 3ofmillions and creator of 2006's beautiful Be Still album).
Ahmad's processed instrumentation is all over opening track 'Prologue', before the focus shifts to Klumpes's piano on 'Her Lovers and My Letter Hand'. The first track in an unofficial triology, it builds like the crest of an uneven wave, Klumpes throwing more and more notes against Ahmad’s slowly-shifting wall of sound. It’s followed by the shimmering radiance of 'Her Birds and Her Pin Cushion' and the minimal, spacious 'My Bedside and Her Paper Flowers.'
The eight-and-a-half minute 'The Turn' sees Klumpes skilfully disrupting swirling clusters of static with brief, controlled bursts of piano notes. The fragile melody of 'You Can Have What I Take' takes on a haunting quality when combined with the track's subtle, grainy background noise. 'Credit and Refinance' is the album's darkest moment, and threatens to drag the mood right down before 'Other's Dream' allows tiny shards of scattered light to shine through the gloom.
Klumpes and Ahmad have found an entirely sympathetic space within which to improvise, and have developed their own intuitive language through which to communicate their ideas. Evenly paced and expertly crafted, In Bed We Trust is the perfect album for quiet afternoons spent under (or at least on top of) the covers."
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