Los Angeles Guitarist/composer Cole Berliner’s writing, arranging and playing highlights an album of rich-grained, acoustic, west coast parlor music and modern electro-acoustic instrumentals in the challenger tradition of Bert Jansch’s Avocet, Marc Ribot’s Saints and Jim O’Rourke’s Bad Timing. Cole’s ambient chamber folk gets into the spirit as it evolves, a growth continuing into speakers, ears and minds wherever it is played. 

Guitar and bass lines push and pull with a glacial glow on "Bongo Syndicate," a guitar track that sounds like an ‘80s Leo Kottke session at ECM. Synth patches rise into the chiaroscuro atmosphere Cole paints, drawing chemtrails behind as the analogue keyboard dawn begins. Warbling string sounds conclude the track with a sudden, last chattering of soundwaves dispersing through the ambient mist.