DIJKSTRA, RAYMOND - De Schroef

"Perhaps our most beloved outsider in experimental music. Raymond Dijkstra never ceases to amaze me. De Schroef (the screw) is his biggest rendition so far (I think), limited to 200 copies. That's not the only change here. The music is ten pieces of maybe one minute to 90 seconds, ending in a silent lock groove and with lots of blank space in between those pieces. Meaning you have to get up to place the stylus into the next piece. Most odd. It doesn't end there. Each of the pieces seems to be a variation on the same theme. An organ/harmonium sound, scraping of glass; all done rapidly. But the proceedings are short and one is left to think it's the same thing, but perhaps it's not. That's the great thing about releases by Raymond Dijkstra. It leaves an endless amount of thinking about it. Is it the same, or different? Why is it cut like this? Poetry. I think Dijkstra offers us sound poetry. Without words, but these ten poems are variations on a few sounds. It will surely annoy a few listeners, but no doubt the true fans of Dijkstra - count me in there - are amazed. Once again. The great outsider." - FdWard(Vital).