Ali O’May and Frazer Brown met in early 2018 at an Electronic Music Open Mic in Edinburgh and quickly discovered a shared musical sensibility. Ali later gave Frazer a USB of stems from his extensive modular system; over summer and autumn 2019 Frazer used about a dozen of those stems to shape tracks across techno, lo‑fi, breaks, acid house and ambient. This collaborative process—Ali supplying raw modular material and Frazer instinctively arranging and producing it—became the Dohnavúr method, driven by Frazer’s encyclopaedic knowledge of electronic music and Ali’s generative patches.

Named after the family home near Glasgow, Dohnavúr’s debut album You Can and You Shall showcased their diverse, inventive approach and arrived just before the March 2020 lockdown. During the pandemic they contributed “Surmonter” to Castles in Space’s Isolation Tapes (a charity release), the track opening the downloads section and helping the compilation win Electronic Sound’s 2020 Compilation of the Year. The pair used the period to connect with kindred labels and collaborators, maintaining momentum despite the global standstill.

Their follow‑up, We Owe Each Other Everything, refines and expands the original method: Ali again provided new modular material and Frazer shaped it in his Armadale studio into a cohesive yet wide‑ranging record. Side one moves from the sawtooth resonance of “Flowers in the Barrel” through the kinetic “Ready for ’91” to the brooding “Make It in Livingston.” Side two includes the haunting “Acetylene,” the cinematic, ’80s‑tinged “Powerless,” and closes with the unforgettable vocal track “Unwavering” featuring Emile Wauters (Autumna). The album demonstrates Dohnavúr’s unique chemistry—music that balances elation and melancholy and resists easy categorisation.