return to cloud city was recorded over three years, from the summer of twenty nineteen to the fall of twenty twenty-two. Months before the outbreak of an airborne virus, the world had already collapsed in on itself. Death opened a void, and then the void began to expand.

When experiencing music the self sometimes melts away and it dawns that no absence is ever total, no loss complete, that something always remains and connections are never severed completely. Those we thought gone forever can be sensed in the static of the universe. The rhythm is the bass and the bass is the treble.

Life is steeped in sadness but alongside rivers of grief, strange and wonderful foliage grows. The world overflows with beauty and inexplicable coincidence. It melts the mind that we are alive even for a moment.

As water vapor condenses in the air, these songs took form slowly, imperceptibly – sound and melody gathering around infinitesimal floating dust particles.

Recorded ~ May 2019 to August 2022 at Wildlife Sanctuary Sound

electric guitar on ‘unwelcome surprise’ by Jordan Howard
saxophones on ‘sunset at whispering waters’ by Karen Ng

all other voices and instruments – Andrew Collins

Mastered at Dreamlands by Heather Kirby
www.heatherkirby.ca