“All the pieces on the record have their seeds in that tour, but were improvised without an audience in my London studio.” “A live concert was sometimes a challenging environment to explore these things, and the crowd was split every night reactions ranged from rapt attentiveness from physics students, to outright anger from people who had been expecting ‘real’ guitar solos. I was seeking ambiguity and liminality in all areas: sound, genre and mood. “I found the results were most inspiring when the patches had the ability to surprise me. “I wanted to create different sonic environments in which to improvise, generating a wide variety of sounds from a single guitar source while avoiding any looping or sequencing. “ The record grew out of an Ableton Live set that I built for a solo tour of Siberia in 2019,” Leo explains. Imagine Vini Reilly remixed by Alva Noto, and you’re in the ballpark. Leo’s album from last year for figureight, Visitations, in pairing with label head honcho Shahzad Ismaily, was a fractured, post-nuclear blues, venturing to the very edge of the pocket: slurring, tense, dark and skeletal.Ĭomparing Visitations with Scene Memory II is the proverbial chalk and cheese on the new album, only in certain moments can you identify a guitar relatively unadorned elsewhere it’s stretched and treated and rendered cyborgian. His forthcoming solo guitar album, Scene Memory II – and when I say forthcoming, I actually mean it’s landing tomorrow – travels right out to the edges of the manipulated aural possibilities of six strings, with the instrument melded and fractured and post-processed into a friable, pyroclastic state, emerging wholly reshaped in a deeply textural glitchtronica, moving towards Jan Jelinek and others in the ~Scape roster – as you can hear on the album’s centrepiece, here for you right now, “Spiral Trem”. When the opportunity to secure a larger office space one level above the previous office became available, it was a chance for Rapt Studio SF to take things. What am I saying? There truly is no ‘may’ about it. Custom, architectural bookcases provide texture and functional space, and mobile project carts that roll under a wall-length floating shelf give project teams a place to store shared materials.GRADUATE of the esteemed Royal Academy of Music, and a man who’s collaborated musically with a host of the truly great and good – that CV including, since you ask, Brian Eno, Imogen Heap, David Byrne, Grace Jones, Regina Spektor, Jon Hopkins and Paul Simon, and that’s just a précis on that CV Leo Abrahams also has also five solo albums to delve into, beginning in 2005 with Honeytrap.Īs a solo musician, Leo is first and foremost a guitarist: but if you like your guitar served straight, no shaker, then you may will be in for a surprise. Versatile mobile storage units topped with soft, grey felt cushions fit under workstations that also include a hanging shelf specifically designed to hold drawing sets. The architectural steel bases have been given a white gloss coating. The predominant material used throughout is white laminate with a European birch core. We believe that design says everything about a company and the people who work there so we make sure every element of Rapt’s new space was sophisticated, functional, and cool, To soften the rough edges if the low industrial building we introduces soft fabrics and warm wood elements. The design focuses on embodying the brand through space, creating an environment to propel the company to its next phase, and cultivating a place that promotes expansive thinking and creative development. Rapt Studio is a giant in the field of architecture and design so when they asked us to create their new L.A office environment we were beyond flattered. Rapt Studio recently designed goops new, light-filled headquarters in Santa Monica.