Stars of the Wayside

This album by Twilight Sequence captures a live improvised performance at Sherborne's hippest record shop, The Beat and Track, run by walking music encyclopedia Paul Maskell. The performance coincided with that year's Record Store Day so the shop was particularly busy, the room intimate and close-up, the perfect environment for Matthew J Saunders to weave his strange, evolving, electronic webs around the record-browsing patrons. “The challenge was to take along some looper pedals, a semi-modular synth, sampler, OP-1 synth and a bunch of effects pedals and make something cool without much of a plan. Some of these pieces had a germ of an idea pre-gig, some were entirely improvised from scratch in the moment.” Saunders is a seasoned recording artist and performer. He has released records on 4AD, Castles in Space, Earworm, Folk Police and worked with artists such as Kim Deal, Kelley Deal, King Creosote and James Yorkston. As well as Twilight Sequence, he records and performs with Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd. (R.E.E.L.), Assembled Minds and Magnétophone. You'll find his live performances of improvised guitar playing on his YouTube channel @unity_gains .