Piquet: The Faulty Caress

This was one of two CDs I got as a 'golden hello' when I took out a subscription to The Wire magazine ten years ago.

Piquet is a psuedonym for recording engineer Paul Kendall (piquet-PK-Paul Kendall, clever, eh?), for whom I've just found this profile. This must have been one of the first albums to include a URL on its cover, and amazingly, ten years on, it still works: http://www.mutelibtech.com/mute/parallel/parallel.htm.

This is another of the CDs I used to listen to in my Workstation office. Possibly as a result, the jewel case is broken and very grubby. Listening to ambient soundscapes at work means they don't get much attention. Yesterday afternoon I had a stomach bug, so I draped myself in a blanket and put this on this quite loud as dusk fell with the lights off — thus listening closer than I ever had before. I especially like Track 2, Caress. It's perhaps fifteen or twenty minutes too long to take in in one sitting; I was nodding off towards the end.

MusicBrainz entry for this album