Stof & Geest

Anne Chris Bakker · 2019

The title translates from Dutch as "Dust & Spirit," and Bakker's music lives exactly in that tension — between the material and the intangible, the decayed and the alive. Working with processed field recordings and slow-dissolving tones, Bakker makes the sounds feel recovered from somewhere long buried, with their rough edges still attached. There's a quiet religiosity running through the work without ever becoming devotional or heavy-handed. Patience is the primary instrument here.