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  • Summary: The latest full-length release from the collaboration between Eiko Ishibashi & Jim O'Rourke features music recorded during their 2023 European tour.
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  1. Oct 21, 2025
    80
    It's like the two musicians are navigating their way through the wilderness without knowing where they're headed, yet once they finally get there, they backtrack and trace a logical path so that it seems like they knew what they were doing the entire time.
  2. Uncut
    Oct 21, 2025
    80
    The greatest pleasure of its four eloquent tracks comes from the way the duo hint at narrative, delicately suturing disparate sounds to build a complex electro-acoustic suite. [Oct 2025, p.29]
  3. The Wire
    Oct 21, 2025
    80
    Both Ishibashi and O'Rourke have spent lifetimes devoted to improvisation, and even if they only pick up a conventional instrument here and there on Pareidolia, the magic they weave on computers is no less spontaneous. [Oct 2024, p.54]
  4. Mojo
    Oct 21, 2025
    60
    The results are sometimes sublime, like the numinous drones and electronic eddies of Do, at other times unsettling and vaguely dystopian. [Nov 2025, p.89]