The unfortunate back-cover blurb of this disc proclaims, "
Rien is a journey, a road-movie as well as a soundtrack." One imagines that Winter & Winter felt the commercial necessity to package
Akchote's project in the guise of a non-narrative movie soundtrack (as well as providing a booklet of intriguingly cinematic photos by Daida Moriyama). However,
Rien actually seems to be his attempted entry into the electroacoustic improvisational world pioneered by
AMM and occupied, in 2000, by an abundance of low-volume improvising musicians such as
Polwechsel and
Gunter Muller and of labels like Erstwhile and Mego.