Natural Light is an album of solo improvisations on electric guitar. Each track is one continuous take, recorded live, without overdubs or edits and with only minimal mastering.

The principal tool I use in the recordings is a device called the Soma Cosmos "drifting memory station", which records fragments of what I play on electric guitar and replays them in the stereo image at slightly different speeds. This leads to the gradual building of a static but shifting soundscape where the echoes gradually merge and create other patterns related to the original, but substantively different.

Conceptually, I started out with the idea of representing the quality of light in our memories - within the gradual blurring of our memories, the quality of light remains constant and evocative as Proust's madeleines. Each of these tracks relates to an experience of light, and the memory it evokes. Throughout the tracks, a recurring pentatonic motif represents the sun itself.

I am grateful to Dr. Andrew Forbes of Witwatersrand University for the use of his extraordinary image of a fractal of light generated within a laser - as with memory, the fractals show the constance of light through countless iterations.

Thanks also to Ivo Bol for the loan of the Cosmos.