Ian Williams started out in the 1980s as a founder of Beautiful Pea Green Boat, whose ethereal, atmospheric sound pre-dated the current vogue for dream pop. More recently, he has released the solo, piano-based album, The Dream Extortionists, and a soundtrack for the French documentary film, Les Blessures Invisibles (Invisible Wounds).

Working with singer Claudia Barton as Gamine, he has released two albums of dark, piano-led torch songs and lullabies, and also collaborated with Lebanese choreographer Joumana Mourad's dance company, Ijad, during which time he produced music for several productions, developing a hybrid Arabic / classical / techno / ambient style.

His new album is All Becomes Desert:
 
"This is a series of (mostly) analogue improvisations, done a while back on my old Roland Juno 106 and recorded straight onto DAT (historical note - Digital Audio Tape, popular in the 1990s), then transferred onto a modern setup for processing and mixing. 

It is an album which uses processed minimalist ambiences and warm analogue soundscapes to evoke the wide-open, empty spaces of the great deserts and their hostility to human interference."
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Cover design by Lionel Avignon at www.hartlandvilla.com.

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