Memory Wire plus a different guest on each track on an album of drifting cosmic ambience. Each guest approaches it in a different way but there is a haunting atmosphere that flows through the album.

Influences - Eduard Artemiev, Robert Rich, Arve Hendriksen, Vidna Obmana

Sometimes you have to break your own rules.
When we started Memory Wire we decided we would only release music we deliberately recorded as opposed to off the desk at live gigs. Jamming had become a way of life with the monthly Quadelectronic events. It's so easy to collect, edit & release live recordings and we wanted to make music in a more controlled way in the studio.
On our last album Pattern Recognition we slightly caved because we got a stunning 30minute recording at CPulse, that went with other live recordings which had a minimal music feel.

This time? "No way", we said. However we had a studio recording called Homecoming Ritual we'd made with singer Victoria Bourne at her studio - a concept piece that came to me in a dream an involved us walking through a village, recording sounds, and reading from random books in a framework of spaces around semi-composed vocal cues.

That made us think of times we had recorded with 1 guest. Chris went thru the Quadelectronic recordings, selected the best and edited them, just for fun. Jim was skeptical...

Oddly we both realised it all flowed together amazingly. Gone were the Terry Riley minimal references of Pattern Recognition - in were a stream of cosmic ambient spacey pieces that really reminded me of Artemiev's score for the Tarkovsky's Solaris film.

The haunting, slighly creepy, slightly melancholic floaty vibe ran throughout so we figured we had to release it. Rules are meant to be broken and now we've done it twice.
As for studio recording - we'll try harder next time - honest.