Kind Regards” is the second duo release from guitarist Oren Ambarchi and drummer Eric Thielemans, issued on AD 93. Capturing a single expansive performance recorded live in Poitiers, France in November 2023, the LP presents one continuous improvisation lasting over 45 minutes. The recording showcases the duo’s deeply refined musical language—evolved from their earlier trio collaboration with minimalist visionary Charlemagne Palestine—and balances meditative calm with bursts of melodic invention and rhythmic drive.

Engineered and mixed by longtime collaborator Joe Talia in high-fidelity, the recording weaves hypnotic tom patterns and shimmering Leslie-processed guitar textures. The music transitions from pulsing ambient textures to irregular grooves, with Ambarchi’s guitar at times echoing the spiritual resonance of Alice Coltrane’s Wurlitzer chords. When Thielemans shifts into jazz-inflected drumming, his supple touch and expressive dynamics evoke the sensibilities of Jack DeJohnette or Billy Hart. Gradually building to a climactic swirl of distorted harmonic broods and crashing cymbals, the duo demonstrate the magic of two masters improvising in real time—even when they simply begin to play and follow wherever the music leads.