With allegiances that spread as far and wide as the ambient post-rock, UK free improv and Norwegian avant-noise scenes, the duo Glockenspiel are a perfect example of just how much these subgenres of contemporary creative music have in common. On Glockenspiel's new album Dupleix, guitarist Adrian Dollemore and drummer Steve d'Enton send these apparently diverse areas of experimental underground music into a fresh liaison, connecting them with the kind of energy and spirit associated with the outer limits of both compositional and improvised music. Both musicians have a background in the UK free improv scene, playing extensively with saxophonist Tony Bevan as well as Paul Rutherford and the young, internationally acclaimed contemporary jazz pianist Matthew Bourne. Released on the Babel Label, the second Glockenspiel recording is a spooky sweet slab of electric drone effects-jazz, Sonic Youth-like guitar and hypnotic post-rock and krautrock rhythm.