"Membranes" is the 5th LP by American ambient artist Memorybell.

After three previous releases of modular synth-based daydreams - "Solace" (2020), "No Anchor" (2021) and "Glass Garden" (2021) - multi-instrumentalist Grant Hazard Outerbridge returns to his roots with seven meditative piano pieces, his first album of solo piano since "Obsolete" (2016).

The songs were recorded at home, and their physical spaces are blended with unreal ones, to mimic the experience of being in two places at once, one real and one imagined.

The album explores the liminal places associated with pain: inevitability, release, recurrence...

From December 2020 - November 2021, Outerbridge was in excruciating pain that required multiple surgeries caused by side effects of various medications.

"Membranes" is the result. A reference to staring through pain while imagining one is somewhere else.

Pain always ends, though. And the resulting feelings are worth exploring.