Martijn Comes is a Dutch composer whose work gravitates towards electroacoustic and timbral experimentation, and Hessel Veldman is a musician and a veteran of the Dutch musical avant-garde. The duo perform music from their collaborative album Manifest Exodus (2024), a work that quivers with vast droning bass and twinkles with blissful high frequencies. The record approaches a universal theme – the search for peace, balance, and a sense of freedom – yet from this large question, Comes and Veldman provide intimate and concise aural responses in Manifest Exodus. Its ominous soundscapes, blistered by loss, alight with sparks of possibility: moments of harmonious groupings disintegrate and rebuild themselves in a perpetual dance of decay and regeneration. Their ambient drones bustle and squirm, lively yet tentative and careful – grasping the sacred from the sonorous with immaculate expertise and the utmost precision.