It's very easy to get carried away on the theremin - there is no resistance of your hands in the air - excess is easy. One night I just set up some a few chords rotating on multiple long delays and through a slowly moving filter - went away and got on with other things - I came back and it was still going, I then realised the minimalism of it was really beautiful.

So I set about recording a whole album of ambient restrained pieces like that. I changed a few small things from track to track - added voice, low whislte or chimes sparingly for a little extra colour, changed the order of the effects - on one track I used sounds, on another I added an arpegiated filter work on the sound. But generally I wanted a similar feel throughout. Listening back made me think of classcial string sections and adagios, hence the title.

Vidna Obmana, Eduard Artemiev, Robert Rich, A Produce/M Griffin, Gyorgy Ligeti, Terje Rypdal, Barber, Albinoni, Knut Nystedt.

Recorded digitally, live with no overdubs at Aloft Studios, Leicester UK.

Adagio Electric

OK for the effects nerds out there - what effects did I use? I used the following, routed in different orders from track to track...

Moogerfooger Low Pass Filter
Moogerfooger Ring Modulator
Moogerfooger MuRF filter array
Digitech Vocalist Live Pro harmonizer
Boss DD20 Giga Delay