The October entry in Sebastian Rochford’s audio diary sees him collaborate with celebrated British cellist Oliver Coates. Their brooding, cinematic track, ‘The Boat Sails To A Blind Horizon’, is described by Coates as “A voyage to uncharted Scottish isles, a kind of transplanted Heart of Darkness.”

All the sounds on the track, melodic, percussive or otherwise, come from the cello or Coates’ voice, speaking about the past into the microphone. The result is eerie and dislocated; a fine example of Rochford’s increasingly diverse production talents.

Coates won the Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artist Award 2011 and has collaborated with artists as diverse as Micachu, MF Doom, Leo Abrahams, Steve Reich and Jonny Greenwood.

Leeds-based Chris Sharkey, best known as the guitarist of trioVD and Acoustic Ladyland (of which he was a member with Seb), completes the package with a hypnotic remix that subtly draws out new aspects of the original.

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