Rosenau & Sanborn – Two

After nearly 20 years of knowing one another, the collaboration

between Nick Sanborn and Chris Rosenau seemed inevitable butended up accidental, an Eaux Claires music-festival lark that hadimmediate chemistry. As they were rehearsing, they realized theywere already making a record. They kept the working mixes andtitles, as well as the bird songs and traffic sounds that drifted into themicrophones. The result was 2019’s Bluebird, a little five-trackwonder that made you feel like you were sitting in the room betweenthem, smiling as they found their wordless rapport.Two years later, Rosenau (Volcano Choir, Collections of Colonies ofBees) and Sanborn (Sylvan Esso, Made of Oak) got together again.They had fun during round two, but the sessions were neither ascarefree as that first attempt nor more focuse