Samer Vermeij is a sound project from the Drone Music studio that treats the acoustic guitar as a source of raw harmonics rather than chords. Open strings are recorded close up, looped in overlapping cycles of different lengths, and allowed to drift out of phase so the pattern never quite repeats.
Fragments of chanted voice appear at the edges, heavily filtered and placed far back in the stereo field. The result is dusty, grainy and gently hypnotic, closer to a desert afternoon than a concert hall. Long sessions work best, with the volume kept low enough for the loops to settle into the background.
