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'The Long Lost Friend: Special Edition' celebrates another fascinating stage in the evolution of Finland’s Husky Rescue, not so much a project, with a final goal and limited time frame, but a continuous musical exploration, led by inspiration, collaboration and the excitement of originality. In this release, his fourth on Catskills Records, Marko Nyberg’s captivating blend of mellow, melodic electronica and folk-tinged vocals is captured on the first CD with a new line-up of composer Antony Bentley and charismatic Swedish vocalist Johanna Kalén. The second CD boasts a new, high-concept instrumental collaboration with Bentley, which accompanied a New York exhibition by designer and long-standing Husky Rescue collaborator Kustaa Saksi. Together, they have taken the Husky Rescue ideal of tense, distorted innocence to another level of uniqueness and sophistication.

The first CD comprises eight tracks Nyberg previously released domestically only, as 'Long Lost Friend' on his own El Camino label in 2013, as well as a series of 7" releases. Already hailed by contactmusic.com as “inventive and without pretension...”, and an attempt “to strip away the precepts of modern music about what is cool, to reduce it to something more about belief than aural wallpaper” this worldwide release is now long overdue.