From our correspondent Richard Kootstra, on a deserted oil platform somewhere in the North Sea.

All is quiet on the Eastern front, but not on the Western. As of the 27th of this month, A Liquid Landscape’s debut album is now available in the US and Canada, with the help from the fantastic people at Laser’s edge label. This is the good news. The bad news is that frontman and rock & roll diva extraordinaire Fons, decided to celebrate this with a drug fueled deep sea diving expedition.

After fighting off multiple sea creatures, imaginary or otherwise, and diving to depths mere mortals would dub insane, Fons has managed to contract caisson disease. This is not some exotic venereal disease you get from”‘swimming with the dolphins’’, but a very dangerous and serious condition, where bubbles form in the blood because of the changes in compression.

So now, Fons is quarantined in a decompression chamber on a deserted oil platform in the North Sea, unable to communicate with the outside world. As their regular embedded correspondent, I am no stranger to bad or bizarre things happening to members of the band and the people who happen to be close to them. It is up to me to write this update, standing beside the decompression chamber and trying to interpret Fons’s sign language.

It seems the lead singer is very happy about the album coming out in North America, judging from his thumbs up sign. It could also mean “more nitrous oxide,” but then again, I’m no doctor. He seems happy in general and as healthy as anyone could expect him to be, being the dangerously insane individual that he is.

He was also signaling the letters A, O and L in morse code, probably indicating the website and the fact that you can now listen to the album on said website. For the past hour, he’s been sleeping peacefully. It is not unlike watching a dog running in its sleep. More news when he wakes up!