Three years ago we decided to start a band of two, using no instruments except our voices, a loop-making machine and some effects.

We didn't know exactly what sound we wanted, we just knew we wanted to have fun, play with the possiblities of our voices and write some good songs. Dry Land, our first album, is what we came up with

By using a loop machine while writing the songs we were able to build up layers of harmonies and rhythms unavailable to us with our two solo voices. Using  looping technology actually helped us to develop our own unique musical language: our sound would have been totally different if we had been writing for piano and voice, band or even choir of 10 singers. Our style has turned out to be both lyrical and funky with a wide contrast of vocal colours and styles: each track is a careful balance between clear structure and inspired improvisation.  


"Live"

To perform the songs live, Askew and Avis became a trio with the addition of sound engineer Robin Whitnell. Each song is created in the moment as we sing beats, melodies, bass lines and harmonies through any one of 4 differently effected microphones. Robin captures these on the laptop and loops them into the texture of the song. None of what we do live is pre-recorded or pre-sampled, each song grows out of nothing into something complete. Also, because some parts of the songs are improvised, no two performances ever sound exactly the same.