Well, I managed at last to get this album up. Recorded a while back with a guitar, a laptop and a fair few kitchen utensils.

Some tracks were played on Radio 3's Late Junction while I was very far from the UK, and out of that came some new relationships. In fact it was how I met Robert Popper, who I am now making music with.

Recently Robert has been letting the world know about this album, so I thought I'd better make it available here. I should note that Robert plays Walking and Talking much better than me. 

I listened to Blood and Bones with headphones the other day and it really made my head swirl - I really had gone overboard on trying to make it minimal but ever changing.

I am still trying to make a short run of lovely physical versions of this, to be made available right here, but I am a real hard task master when it comes to packaging, so it is a bit of a bumpy ride.

This is the second track from the recent session with Robert. Very sunny feeling, with perhaps a little bit of the seventies in there. I particularly like the theme that emerges at the end, I can almost feel a whole new section coming on.

Well well well. Robert came round mine and we did some focussed editing and mucking about. I think we have something very odd, but now somehow understandable, and very pulsing. 


I think the main theme is something that Robert has been developing for some time. As I've said elsewhere, we met up late last year and recorded lots of musical cells that I could than take away and make Eva Hipsey like. A few of those cells became the basis for CHASE. I then got Reaktor out to see if I could find just the right kind of whoosing backward sound that I have a penchant for, and we were off. A washboard like brushes beat and we had some gypsy electronics going.


Robert then came back back to north London, after many fantastical trips, where and when I got him to settle down and add a few more lines and splats. I have to say I very much enjoyed the look of utter conviction and concentration on his face as he improvised in ever expanding spirals over my mis-shapen beats. He's a great player - very precise, always wanting something more - quite at odds with my approach. I'm looking forward to getting the other two tracks up that we worked on - they'll be here soon.

Here is something I have been fiddling with for far too long. Best to close it down by giving it some air. Project Moonbase played it on their show last night - thank you very much for that. 


It has had everything pumped in to it at one point and then scoured back out - I think it was about 12 minutes long at one point. Just as I was about to compose it in to 4 other pieces Sylvie calmed me down and delicately snipped here and there. So although this is a quite a simple piece in all I have been wrestling with it for about 2 years! 


Plodding on with getting the various albums pressed - looking in to packaging this week - if anyone has any oddball ideas on an eva hipsey style packaging approach give me a shout. I wanted to go with a wonderful slimline cardboard box for each album but haven't quite found such a thing yet.

A little woozy number I have been messing about with for a while. Still not quite there, but ready for an outing I think.

On a different note, I am working on releasing a set of delux super short run CDs of the various albums that Eva Hipsey has had a hand in over the last four years. I am trying to work out how to make it affordable and fabulous at the same time. My dream is to release a set of 6 or seven discs that somehow fit together in a lovely way. So all the tracks would still be here and free and downloadable, but there would also be some objects for people to hold and consider. Anyway that's my plan and it could still easily fail in the execution.