Howdy again (my last message, I promise):

I finally heard back from Stefan of Troum about a week ago regarding their
collaboration with Martyn Bates. He said, "yes yes, Martyn is working on
it....
Martyn told us he will also sing! We send him some instrumental
basics....... some quite song-oriented, some more pure sound drones."

So, it looks like this is happening for now. But, no word on when it might
be finished. The last collaboration that Troum did like this (with an
American band called Yen Pox) took several years to complete. I'm just
happy that it's a possibility.

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