This was always gonna be lovely. Mark Nelson allies with veteran superproducer and Shimmy Disc boss Kramer to lift his serene fretwork even further skyward. Properly blissful gear - RIYL vintage Eno, Stars of the Lid or Windy & Carl.

The Baptismal project started out when Kramer invited me to collaborate with him on a project, and I tend to think in terms of what the listeners are open to hearing these days. In my mind was a recording that let the listeners leave the busy mind generated by mainstream media, so I came up with the idea of a baptism, immersive kind of LP in which the listener would Become totally present with the music. I suggested to Kramer the title Baptismal, and that the tracks would be called 'Gedunk', a comical reference to the idea of being immersed in water, my own baptism as a child in the Christian faith, the Baptist church.

A legendary indie audio artist blurring his lifelong attachments, from spontaneous composition (in the late 70's with John Zorn) to experimental rock (with Bongwater and other bands in the 80's) alongside his recent inquiries into the intricacies of ambient folk song-craft (with his most recent solo LP, And The Wind Blew It All Away), Kramer continues to explore the possibilities of shaping naturally occurring aural landscapes into intoxicatingly affecting music.