Tell us a bit more about the winter that you spent on a remote island. What were you doing there? How did it shape your mind as an artist? i think location as a direct influence to music is overrated. it’s not so important as the end result is almost the same, but at least [...]

How long did it take you to actually compose this album? 2 years more or less. This is true of most of my work, I would have liked it to be less, as after 1 year it could easily become 3, or 4 and then you start getting into Geoff Barrow/Kevin Shields territory, its a [...]

Tell us about Solo Andata and what the name means to you. SA (Paul): Solo Andata is a duo from Australia. One-half (Kane Ikin) lives in the East (Melbourne), and the other (Paul Fiocco) in the West (Perth). I discovered the name ‘Solo Andata‘ whilst traveling by train from Rome to Sicily in 2004. It [...]

This is the first time we’re hearing your voice. What prompted this revelation? I’ve always been keen to humanise digital music and technology and have always used voices in my work since the earliest scanned phonecall recordings of the 1990s, but felt that I wanted to offer more of a personal connection. I wanted the [...]

You’ve talked about the search for timeless melodies being an inspiration for the making of the album. It sounds like you believe that deep within the human subconsciousness there exists something akin to a reservoir of music that we can all tap into. Can you elaborate on that? This might only be applicable to anyone [...]

The story about how you came to land on n5MD is kind of like an Internet fairytale, isn‘t it? It definitely was like a fairytale for us because we hadn’t even started looking for a label to release our music. We thought that would be the biggest task. But by pure luck we added Mike [...]