A lovely, understated exercise in minimalism, documents a set of otherwise unaccompanied guitar/vocal duets between and , recorded live at in London's on June 25, 1995. Although the performance isn't even quite half an hour long, it's the perfect length for holding a listener's attention. co-wrote the title track, one of the five songs bearing a credit; the others are underexposed items from 's mid- to late-'80s catalog, plus selections by ( ) and ). is once again the refined, mature vocal stylist of , but holds the real key to the collaboration with his impeccably restrained support. He expertly controls the dynamics of each piece, often stripping his part down to single-note lines, which lends surprising emotional impact when he allows full chords to wash over 's voice; his articulation is crisp and clean, his chordal voicings often novel and unexpected. It's no real surprise that the two work well together, given the musical affinity demonstrated on 's masterful reinterpretations of material on his own album . The pleasures of are, to be sure, much subtler than either of those recordings, but they make an elegant and fascinating supplement. ~ Steve Huey