Martin Schmidt & John Berndt * Cloud Machines [Indie Exclusive Egg Yolk] LP Turquoise Blue Vinyl Liner notes by Daniel Schweiger

Liner notes by Daniel Schweiger incorporate new interview comments by the composer

Barcarolle No 12 in E Flat Major Op 106Bis

featuring strings by Stockholm Studio Orchestra

John Lennon Speech 1

” — “Ten Years”

Martin Schmidt & John Berndt * Cloud Machines [Indie Exclusive Egg Yolk] LP Turquoise Blue Vinyl Liner notes by Daniel SchweigerCloud Machines is the extraordinary debut collaboration between M. C. Schmidt of legendary electronic duo Matmos and John Berndt, the Baltimore avant garde institution and band leader behind High Zero Festival, the Red Room collective, Geodesic Gnome, and radical sonic concepts like Spectral Relay (a bespoke signal processing architecture) and Relabi (a conceptual genre defined by a Rorschach blot pulse. These two iconoclasts have delivered something