*150 copies limited edition* Séance of Sleep II: La lévitation de Shéhérazade opens the second chapter in David Wunder Brägger’s ambient cycle with the patience of a ritual and the mischief of a conjurer. Known as a fiddler, banjoist, documentarian, educator and preservationist of old American music, Brägger has never treated tradition as a sealed display case. Here, archaic Appalachian bowing, Indian classical inquiry, microtonal listening and early electro‑acoustic practice seep into one another until history begins to wobble. The result is an analogue-driven folktronic séance: epic in scale, spare in gesture, haunted by the sense that a roomful of ancestral instruments has learned how to dream electronically.

Brägger builds this music through a meticulously assembled family of handmade and modified instruments. Circuit boards blink beneath looping oscillators; droning fiddles stretch their grain into sustained clouds; microtonal metallophones flash with unstable colour; vintage organs breathe out their slow, imperfect chords. Nothing is pushed toward spectacle. Each sound is permitted to linger, accumulate and alter the air around it. A bowed tone may become a machine hum, a low oscillator may take on the ache of a distant choir, and a seemingly fixed drone gradually reveals a restless interior life. The album’s minimalism is never empty - it is alive with tiny shifts, unfamiliar intervals and the tactile presence of wood, wire, metal and voltage.

That sensibility grows naturally from Brägger’s unusually wide musical life. His studies of traditional fiddle and banjo music, Indian classical forms, microtonality and experimental electronics are not displayed as references but absorbed into a personal vocabulary. Years spent working with figures as different as Greg Graffin, Mike Watt, Tim Kerr, Todd Barton, Dom Flemons and Bruce Molsky, along with encounters that range from Indian street magicians to underground punk and folk communities, have given his work an unruly generosity. On Séance of Sleep II, the old-time player and the electronic experimentalist are not competing identities. They are two hands operating the same dream machine.

The physical edition extends that atmosphere into an object built for close attention. Released by Tiki Parlour Recordings, the LP arrives on limited multi-coloured vinyl with a digital download and a double-sided art print featuring surreal collage work by Howard Rains, a longstanding visual counterpart to the label’s music. The official video for Love Thy Dream Elders, directed by animators Nick Bachman and Mikie Poland under the name Glenn, carries the record’s handmade otherworldliness into motion. Séance of Sleep II: La lévitation de Shéhérazade ultimately feels like Brägger’s invitation to enter an unstable but welcoming zone where folkways, feedback and sleepwalking imagination meet - timeless sound-making for experimental listeners, traditional-music devotees and anyone willing to let the familiar become strange again.