Richard Youngs is a reclusive musician from Scotland whose work was devoted for a long time to "lo-fi" improvisations inspired by minimalism and John Fahey's instrumental folk music. His first album, Advent (1988 - Table Of The Elements, 1998 - Jagjaguwar, 2004), contains three lengthy spectral improvisations for piano, guitar, oboe and voice. The noisy guitar makes the difference: it sounds as if Terry Riley had been locked up in a madhouse.