Scene Memory is a step in a completely different direction, consisting of a series of contemporary textural studies for the electric guitar. Moody and atmospheric; broodingly melancholic yet melodic; radical but accessible, the album is the result of Leo s experiments with new ways of approaching the guitar. The tracks were constructed by playing the instrument through chains of laptop effects in real time, rather than manipulating the sounds after the performance. Partially improvised, it contains no edits. Therefore, an air of tension is maintained even throughout the most static and bucolic pieces. The extraordinary variety of sounds makes it hard to believe that they all come from the same instrument. Remixes have been provided by Hans Joachim Roedelius (formerly of Cluster), J Peter Schwalm, David Holmes and Jon Hopkins. These are available to download from the Bip_Hop website. The record s mood is influenced by the composer Morton Feldman, whose intent was to isolate what he called the Abstract Experience in Leo s words ...this emotion we get from art that can t be categorised, a bit like melancholy in a positive and beautiful sense. In that way I like music to be suggestive of something, but to leave a lot to the imagination.