LeVines’ after the quake transforms five prosaic fragments from stories in Haruki Murakami’s "after the quake" into acoustic landscapes. The outer movements describing manmade objects frame three movements depicting images from nature. The intercultural nature of the work — an American writing for a German duo about a Japanese book, incorporating African, European, American, and Asian music — clearly illustrates LeVines’ desire to connect people of different origins through music. MareDuo recorded after the quake in Mallorca, Spain for Naxos Records in 2019.
LeVines appears here as a master of the pacing of silence and sound ... the 20-minute work is a tremendous enrichment of the existing repertoire.
— Concertino Magazin, Fabian Hinsche