With live music and group-based rehearsal and recordings severely restricted in 2020, Dominic Lash gets to work on his own, exploring the rarely-embraced option of playing with recordings of himself on guitar and double bass. Neither a classic call and response or palimpset based approach to double tracking, Dom's volant weaving makes it hard to decipher which recording was made first. Both hands are used to colour the canvas, giving the illusion that lines of each instrument are leading each other down different paths. In a set of winding melodic phrases, splintered guitar stabs, bowed double bass refrains and harmonic embraces, Dom unveils conversations with himself. A dialogue that is both a reckoning and peacemaking with himself and his thoughts within 4 walls. in memory of Simon H. Fell (1959-2020) and John Russell (1954-2021), with love and gratitude Everything about this album has in one way or another been influenced by these two master musicians (but please don't hold them responsible). --   Dominic Lash - double bass, guitar, recording   --   Cover design by Oliver Barrett

Dom Lash / double bassAxel Dorner / trumpetRoger Turner / drums --- Tracklisting: 1. Pit Stop - 5:242. Brunswick Square - 16:233. The View Of The Far Hills - 5:434. The Local - 3:435. Squall - 11:526. Bzzz - 3:46 --- Tracks 2 & 5 recorded live at Cafe OTO on 21st April 2015 by Tom Mudd. Track 4 recorded live by Simon Reynell at Portland Works, Sheffield. Tracks 1, 3 & 6 recorded live by Simon Reynell at St James’ Church, Midhopestopes, on 24th April. Edited, mixed and mastered by Axel Dorner.

Both great improvisers, but even better storytellers, Davies and Lash carve a huge narrative with this simple approach to strings. As soon as their bows hit string they are growing and swelling together until their huge swathe of sound looms over the room and fills OTO's every nook and cranny. And then, all of a sudden, it disappears - leaving just a ticking, a bowing of floorboards under an invisible, shifting weight. Detailed minutiae with gigantic effect from two of the UK's best.  --- Angharad Davies / violin Dominic Lash / double bass  --- Recorded by Mark Jasper on Thursday 5th May 2016. Mixed by Abby Thomas. Mastered by James Dunn.  --- Tracklisting: 1. 22:32 - 22:32