artist Touch Base

Both members of various bands and projects during their musically formative years, Jones became frustrated with the resistance to experimental composition and electronic instrumentation in the surrounding local music scene, and diverted his attention to other mediums. Eventually meeting Lumsden, a known unconventional guitar technique and effects pedal experimenteur with an interest in computer music, the two quickly started exchanging what would prove to become fundamental music creation ideologies. During their first project in Lumsden's studio, (scoring and sound designing for a multimedia performance art piece being designed and performed by Jones at a local venue) many shared opinions in the importance of cultural recycling (neighbourhood 8-bit gaming, old vinyl coloured audio, the future as envisioned by the early 1980s) were revealed. Schedules finally convened for a long overdue collaboration that was celebrated early on on by national press The album was recorded and rough mixed during the winters of '04 and '05, when the warmest places to be was the studio, and the frozen view outdoors lay soundless and white. The effort finds Touch Base in top form: clever, bold, articulate, and as always, ambassadors of the frosted nostalgia and glowing intensity that makes every moment memorable, and every cut a classic. Diedrich Thirsk Forest City Free Press April 2006

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