Mar 22, 2022 By Matthew Berlyant

Following Michael Rother’s 2020 solo album Dreaming is this, his first collaboration with his Italian partner Vittoria Maccabruni. Recorded shortly after Rother’s move to Pisa to join Maccabruni after almost 50(!) years in a German farmhouse, this is his first collaboration since the short-lived group Hallogallo in 2010. As such, Rother’s extremely distinctive guitar style and tone are ever-present and recognizable to anyone who has ever heard his playing in Neu!, Harmonia, the aforementioned Hallogallo, or the 11 albums he’s made as a solo artist. More