Enno Velthuys - A Glimpse of Light

My only previous encounter with the work of Dutch musician Enno Velthuys was via the typically dreamy synth wave orientated split single on Stroom, so it's a great surprise to encounter this first time vinyl reissue of what seems to be a somewhat grailed cassette from the mid 80s. Glimpse of Light is someway removed from that 7 on Stroom, abandoning the outsider pop-isms for a new age influenced exercise in stillness and quiet. Hard to think of this kind of thing without being drawn back to Eno, though Velthuys does manage to inject elements of the weird and eerie not hugely present in Eno's clinical minimalism. Velthuys journey from post-punk does obviously colour his approach - these kind of guys always seem to have more emotion in their music than their more academically centred peers - though if this were to have been released on Obscure you'd not think it unusual. Indeed, there's a close tie here to Michael Nyman's Decay Music, and it certainly deserves a seat at that same table.