Subterranean Lights by Memory Wire

Released to celebrate 10 years of Memory Wire!

Delicate and sparse piano melds with subtle electronics and other textures to create a dreamlike atmosphere.

Memory Wire's 11th album is quite unlike any of their past albums. For a start the album was recorded during Covid-19 lockdown so the album had to be recorded remotely in their separate studios.

They had done this before for most of the Aura album, and like that album, the situation has brought out a consistant and unique atmosphere. Beautiful and eerily mysterious. Whether the strange lockdown situation added to the atmopshere is hard to tell.

Background
Jim Tetlow suggested adding his electronics to Chris Conway's gentle and largely atonal solo piano improvisations and 5 tracks began that way. Chris added further textural layers on 3 tracks.

Track 2 Hallucinating was a duo piece originally for a compilation album by the United Isolated Ensemble. Chris added zithers, kalimbas, percussion, and a singing bowl to it giving it a feeling of strange ritual.

On Track 5 The Depths Chris added a haze of theremin and voices both treated with harmonizer and effects.

Trivia
Subterranean Lights is Memory Wire's 11th album, and their first in 2 years.

The solo piano pieces of 1, 3, & 6 can be heard on Chris Conway's piano improvisations album "Spring Full Moon Solitude".
Tracks 2 & 4 can he found in their solo form on his "Strange New World" album,

Tracklist

1.	Points Of Light	3:12

2.	Hallucinating	10:12

3.	Reflections and Refractions	10:06

4.	Crystal Cascades	10:09

5.	The Depths	9:58

6.	Fading Light	7:02

Credits

released May 21, 2020

Chris Conway - piano, synthesizer, voice, theremin, zithers, kalimbas, singing bowl, percussion, effects.
Jim Tetlow - laptop and keyboard.

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