"Voice, the most human expression of a person, striped down and elabrated
to show the essence of a person. and a human. leading towards the divine.
Hopefully." Andrew McKenzie of The Hafler Trio

Exactly As I Do finds The Hafler Trio collaborating with Jonsi Birgisson, the vocalist and guitar player for the Icelandic group Sigur Ros. Exactly As I Do is part of the Hafler Trio's continuing Voice Series which has already included Blixa Bargeld of Einsturzende Neubauten and David Tibet of Current 93. Exactly As I Do is lavishly packaged in a special die cut oversized package printed on two different types of parchment, meant to imitate small editions of French poetry ca. 1900.

From The Hafler Trio:
"All's well that ends well, as the wren when she pissed into the sea. Jonsi and the h3o embark on waters, not treading and almost walking. The voice of the mistress calls us all, and here, the phone number is supplied. recorded and manipulated, careessed and coffeted in the fine city of Reykjavik in 2005, the ears are the orifice that is made love to with the caresses of a beast covered in honey. Personality is flipped to
negative, essence is flipped to positive. The work feeds the latter".

artist: The Hafler Trio
title: Exactly As I Do
catalog number: imprec051
release date: May 17, 2005
format: double cd

   Exactly As I Do is a 2CD . One CD is entitled 'SHAKTIPAK', and the other, 'ASIS'

Andrew McKenzie  inviting Jónsi Birgisson of Sigur Rós to collaborate with him on this project, and to Jónsi for accepting. Although he might as well have selected some random passerby for all that the technical manipulations and extensions of Jónsi's sampled voice render it totally unrecognisable, the fact is that it is Jónsi's voice

Exactly As I Say (Phonometrography, 2004) and Exactly As I Do (2005) that use Sigur Ros's vocalist Jonsi Birgisson as the source. With this trilogy on the human voice, Andrew McKenzie entered the sphere of extreme electronic minimalism.(piero scaruffi)

. 2004