The year 2002 signified an artistic highlight in David Eugene Edwards career. The latest Sixteen Horsepower album Folklore peaked, but the untitled debut of his solo project Woven Hand met with a lot of approval rightly too. And now a successor so soon already? Not quite. This is the music from the new dance-theatre project of Belgian Wim Vandekeybus, whose Ultima Vez Dance Co. collaborated with Marc Ribot and David Byrne previously.

The basis for Blush Music is formed by some songs of the Woven Hand album (My Russia, Stories And Pictures, Your Russia, the Bill Withers' cover Ain't No Sunshine). Edwards added layered orchestrations, new tracks and bizarre, instrumental soundscapes. However, familiar Sixteen Horsepower ingredients like the banjo and an intense conjuring elocution are not absent. Actually Edwards doesn't really care for modern dance, but the theme turned the scale. Vandekeybus' production is loosely based on the myth of the tragic Orpheus. Heaven and hell, good and evil, guilt and penance, thus. Grist to the mill of pessimist and religious fanatic Edwards. God's ways and those of his most pious disciples are inscrutable and perhaps that is good thing too in the present case. We heathen music lovers reap the fruits.