The debut full length from long-time sonic adventurers James Holden and Waclaw Zimpel is a set of focused improvisations striking out for the cosmic zone, for inner space, the weightlessness of trance. Holden & Zimpel are explorers, chasing the ego death, when the music starts to make itself, melting time. This transcendental impulse reaches beyond language, making it tricky to write about. Consider how the word trance feels worn down and sticky. The Universe Will Take Care of You is a helpful signpost of a title, its music calls for colours and nature metaphors, animal spirits and the movement of the heavens.
The first track is called ‘You Are Gods’. Off we go. It shimmers and glimmers, bass bubbles up to become rhythm. Nothing is settled in this…