One guitar, close and dry, strumming hard enough to carry the pulse on its own.

A voice enters right up against the strings, mid-register and grainy at the attack.

The voice drops away, and the strum keeps the drive alone.

Back in higher, with more push behind the tone, the guitar right there under it.

A few bars on its own, then the voice returns, pressing closer against the strum.

Now it's all guitar, fast slippery runs in the space where the voice was.

The voice comes back near the top of its range, vibrato shaking the long notes.

It sings in one long unbroken stretch now, phrase answering phrase over the strum.

Another phrase climbs higher and thinner, the strain showing in the tone.

After the guitar answers, the voice comes back and starts working upward again.

The phrases sit closer together now, each one higher and tighter in the throat.

The voice steps back in over the strum, still pushing.

Voice gone, and one last chord rings out into the room.