Built around a single idea: the future of the past. The electric piano is the one fixed point.
It's philosophical ambient, played on the electric piano, and if I'm honest it's a diary about time that I decided to score instead of write.
The records — “Masks of the Night”, “Mystic Walk”, “Not Young Not Old”, “The Future of the Past”, “The Past of the Future” and more — are entries, really. One continuous notebook.
Every so often I play somewhere tiny around the UK — a back room, a little hall, once a kitchen. Never big, never really advertised. If you'd host one, message me.
Music for one listener at a time.
No shuffle. It's an album, not a playlist.
In the lineage of Erik Satie · Claude Debussy · Ludovico's quiet school · Federico Mompou · Harold Budd
I didn't plan “Masks of the Night”. It arrived as one image of paradox I couldn't put down and asked to be finished.
It is philosophical ambient, so nothing hurries — the electric piano is allowed to just sit in the room.
Play it low. It was made low.
“Not Young Not Old” came from the idea of time, and then refused to leave.
I kept the takes that sounded like weather and cut the rest.
I hope it meets you somewhere quiet.
I didn't plan “Mystic Walk”. It arrived as a long look at motion and asked to be finished.
I kept the takes that sounded like weather and cut the rest.
It isn't a message — it's company for a particular hour.
The method is dull and I'm proud of it — a electric piano, a quiet room, the delete key.
Most of a session ends up deleted. What survives is the piece.
Owed to Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Ludovico's quiet school. The rest I took by accident.
Lately everything I write bends back toward motion.
The electric piano found the shape before I did; I stayed out of the way.
That is all it wants to be.
Erik Satie · Claude Debussy · Ludovico's quiet school · Federico Mompou · Harold Budd
