Album Notes

In September 2001 life and the living of it grew more urgent for many of us. We found renewed value in every moment as a chance for self-expression. Suddenly it seemed obvious it could all end a heartbeat or two short of our dreams and aspirations. This urgency may have been what drew Richard Montefiore back to writing and performing music after a 10 year hiatus. The track "Blizzard" is the musical soundtrack of this re-emergence; one of Mr. Montefiore's earliest experiments with ACID Loops. Through the intervening years, 2001 to 2007, Mr. Montefiore continued to experiment; both musically and in lyrical collaboration with a number of different artists in a variety of styles. One style which emerged was "Vocal Electronica", an inter-twining of first person, in-the-moment lyrics and dramatic, rhythmic Electronica. This imagery was itself often inspired by the emotive soundscapes and introspective Electronic music being created by Wendy Gronzdil,heavily inspired by Deep Forest and Enigma, Downtempo and Trance artists Gesaba and Bob Vickery, as well as the Spoken word beds and pristine sounds of Steve Hewitt of OX3 and John Fryett.