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Broadcasting from Nowhere originates, in fact, somewhere, a virtual place where musicians collaborate without ever entering the same physical space. More specifically, Tokyo and Italy align in an elegant Venn diagram of lowercase music and post-classical, of strings and electronics, of everyday sound and expert musicianship, of five musicians heard to varying degrees of prominence. This is Ondelunghe, the name for the collaboration between Hiromu Yamaguchi (”piano, field recordings,” per the brief liner notes) and Guido Lusetti (”free electrons, found voices”). On the title — and first available — track from their forthcoming album, due out December 16 on the Bristol-based Facture label, graceful cello pushes up against what sounds like the granular pause of glass breaking. That is likely Henrik Meierkord on cello, as he is listed as a guest, as are Ed van der Berkel (trumpet) and Daniele Varelli (shakuhachi). What opens with a dreamy, spring-loaded alarm clock lets piano occasionally gather on the surface of the multi-faceted drone.