Skywriters: Ambient Music at Ambient Music Garden

Skywriters are dedicated to creating ambient music for deep listening, their music has also proven to be very suitable for use with meditation, healing and relaxation. It is a collaboration between two composers, ambientmusicgarden.com artist Richard Scott and David Ross who have worked together in many projects including Pool, Twinkle3 and Grutronic since meeting in London in the 1980s. David is best known as drummer for the kenny process team,but has also recorded/performed with frank chickens,bark psychosis,matt deighton,jah wobble and andy cox.

In recent years he became interested in analog electronics and performs with Grutronic, Evan Parker, Clive Bell and Mighty Baby. He has worked as a music therapist for 10 years, including improvised music workshops for adults with special needs and Alzheimer's, and has been commissioned to record two extended works with these groups.

"Multi-instrumentalist David Ross [creates] associations between tones and shadings not heard together elsewhere and to bring them into being. Through subtle coloration and shifting alignments... melodies that project like vivid mosaics... Intimate and unassuming, it sounds like nothing else and imparts a warmth that deepens with each listen.... It's music to furnish the secluded corners and secret recesses of the mind, catering from quiet times.... Gradual music like scented air. Delicate without fastidiousness; soothing and sensuous." Julian Cowley, The Wire.

Skywriters first volume, Skywriting, is inspired by the sound of the tambura, the drone used in Indian classical music. From this beginning point Skywriters build an intensity of texture and atmosphere, with melodies derived some some very unsusual instruments including the diddle bow, a one stringed slide guitar and the Kantele, a Finnish harp.

The second Skywriters album, Homeostasis, again has a drone as its starting point. In this case the human voice in the form of the vocal drone used in the background in religious and ritual musics, it is subject to sublime analogue electronic transformations.