"This is another in the series of highly effective collaborations between film maker Bill Morrison and members of the Bang on a Can collective ... Among numerous other projects, their various textures of atmospheric post-minimal loops being an ideal complement to the flickering, faded, half-hidden, fluidly metamorphosed images of the films. The Village Detective is a prime example of a Morrison-Lang project. A print of the 1969 Soviet comedy crime drama whose McGuffin was a stolen accordion, was hauled up in a deep-sea fishing net from the depths of the Atlantic, where it had languished for fifty years. Morrison constructed a film from the damaged reels and extracts from other works by the film's star, whose career had spanned pre-revolutionary and Soviet Russia, which serves as a kind of abstract documentary of twentieth century Russia. The melancholy oscillating, looping intervals and chords of Lang's score, for solo accordion, perfectly represent ... a single set of lungs diving into the ocean to retrieve this story of ... the beautiful, tragic, and inexorable drift of time. Although described as "A Song Cycle", the voice only appears in the final track"