Maggie Nicols, Alya Al Sultani, Robert Mitchell

"This was a unique experience recording for me in a studio that I have had several fantastic experiences in over 20yrs. We have not performed, had not rehearsed and were formulating a sonic world in real time as the takes proceeded. Copious light came into the room and never left! I believe we have more than a book within each of us. Sometimes a day provides a sentence. An hour provides a paragraph. A week provides a comma, and a minute provides a whole page. As Wayne Shorter says ‘Our instrument is our humanity’. Our most human job surely is to keep our antenna clean and functioning, and to keep as many channels open as possible.

As a result - we might even receive the coordinates to the most important treasure: living in peace. The daily distractions, and thus the deliberate weakening of our abilities to work together while benefitting from our naturally occurring ‘differences’ - are some of the most pressing challenges of these times. It is a great privilege to have these two vocalists give a number of these writings stunningly bespoke clothing to now wear in a part of the universe far from where they were conceived! If any of this can provoke you to turn even the most difficult of days into a sentence, the most lonely of nights into a stanza or the most busiest of periods into a verse lying somewhere between now and an ideal destiny - the time you have given to this recording has been truly well spent." - Robert Mitchell