Rope Light

Ivo asked for a cassette because he wanted the record to have a side you could not skip through, and because the hiss is part of the piece. ‘Rope Light’ is one continuous forty-minute improvisation on a nylon-string guitar through a spring reverb, split across two sides purely because the tape ran out. We booked the room at The Room for a Sunday, put one microphone up, and did not stop the recorder. There are two mistakes on side one and one long silence on side two where he genuinely stopped to think. Two hundred cassettes, chrome tape, blue shells, with a card insert printed at the copy shop on Ardent Row. There will not be a repress.