“Lucarne des combles” is the opening track from Fresques sur les parois secrètes du crâne, the second album by French amplified classical guitar/drums duo Cheval de frise. This striking, enigmatic, baroque masterpiece was recorded at Black Box studio (France) in 2002 and released in CD format on RuminanCe (Paris) in 2003. The album is now being reissued by the New York label Computer Students and is being pressed to vinyl and cassette tape for the first time, with the original track list remastered by Carl Saff – order a copy here. The band comments on the reissue, saying: “‘Lucarne des combles’ is a great meteorological derangement seen from the attic: a meteoric screech in which each guitar note appears to be a hailstone trembling with intensity, the drums lifted by a counter-rotat...