My new album Bloom is out now.

This initial Bandcamp release will be followed by all the other streaming platforms (including the thieving Spotify) later on.

The album features eight tracks of my older electronica works – electronic poems and vignettes, if you like – most of them outtakes or alternative versions from my previous albums.

The tracks span the years 2001-2014, and they have been recorded in London, Tokyo, Berlin, Helsinki and Barcelona. The album also features a previously unreleased track from my earlier collaboration with poet Rick Holland.

Naturally there’d have been hundreds of more tracks to include from that period, but I’ve always felt that these eight particular pieces condensed the idea I was now after: that of fragility, subtlety, tenderness and sensuousness in electronic music.

At the same time, Bloom feels like a swan song to the kind of electronic music I’d been making since that summer of 1993 and all the way until 2020: my interest in beat-driven electronica with synths and drum machines has since evolved toward other forms of composition and musical possibilities.

As a listener, though, it’s a different story, and I still very much enjoy those synths and drum machines, melodies with inventive beats. Hence this modest, one last contribution to that world of future music.

“Our real power in this world is our ability to care, nurture, protect, share, create, cooperate, preserve, and love. Any other attempt at power is merely a form of cowardice, of unimaginative and inconceivable loss – pure illusion.”

Hope you’ll enjoy discovering it!