The two solo pieces that open this disc give a good indication of the guitarists’ differing styles: Brighton’s piece is all sparse, ringing harmonics and phantom volume-pedal swells while Kaiser’s ‘Spoonful’, as the name suggests, starts off as a shambling country-blues before disintegrating into scrabbling string-slap abstraction not unlike Bill Orcutt’s deconstructed take on American roots music. The nine duets that comprise the rest of the album were made possible by the wonders of internet file sharing, with Brighton recording at home in the south of England and Kaiser adding and editing half way around the world in California. The results are surprisingly coherent, too. ‘Getting Started’ is a study in glistening interstices and carefully poised crystal filaments. ‘Sounds of the Soil Pt 2 (Revisited)’ – dedicated to improvising percussionist, Tony Oxley, with whom Brighton recorded back in 1977 – begins as an investigation into friction caused by rubbing and scraping before opening a portal for hovering ghost notes. It’s intense music from two determinedly single-minded fret-doctors.