Like the eclectic ‘world folk’ flavours of 2023’s Ramshackle Alchemy album, the Cafe Nowhere series (1 – 4) brings together more recordings inspired by music traditions from around the world. This time the tracks have been selected from 23 different albums across my back catalogue of releases since 2005. Converging together at the Cafe Nowhere, […]
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Once again, a combination of disparate ingredients organically converged to bring about this new collection of musical explorations, Kro Gnosis. I began these recordings immediately after completing the Temple album, which marked a return to actual recording (ie using a microphone & playing real instruments again, rather than collaging existing recorded materials, or generating sounds
The emergence of the Temple recordings began with an unexpected musical gift from my partner Heidi: a beautiful 17-note kalimba (thumb piano). I had mentioned to her quite awhile back that I’d like a kalimba to experiment with, so I was especially delighted when she surprised me with it. I didn’t engage with playing it
