After a few years of writing jazzy electronic music, I set out with the intention of writing a bunch of tracks that sounded like a live jazz performance but in fact had no musicians playing at all. In the end I got pretty close. I played the piano parts myself, but the rest - the sax, the drums, the bass etc. - was all meticulously sampled, sequenced and warped, note-by-note and beat-by-beat so that none of the original recording is discernible.

This was a total nightmare when it came to the saxophone. I spent hours, days, weeks staring at waveforms to locate and edit the pitch, length and timbre of each individual note, which - given that I'd handwritten on manuscript paper the exact notation I wanted for these quite bonkers avant-garde runs - required a level of headache-inducing concentration had me questioning pretty much every day whether this was just an enormous waste of time.

In the end I think it was worth it. Unlike most things I've done I don't actually hate this, even after almost a decade. People still email me now to tell me they like it, which is awesome, and although most people tell me Stonegate and Aon are their favourites, I think the second half of Blackfriars probably the highlight.

You can buy it direct from me at BandCamp or otherwise there may be a few CDs still floating about.