From a very young age the music Erik Satie has been an enormous influence - all of it: from the early Gymnopedies and Gnossiennes period through the Rosicrucian/Medieval influenced auster period and the later music including the theatrical collaborations with Jean Cocteau and Picasso.
One day Thomas Lemmer's versions of Gymnopedies popped up in my Spotify stream. Such was the beauty of his (very slightly) more ambient approach to the pieces that I decided to work on something similar with Gnossiennes. Along the way I discovered there's a seventh Gnossienne - a piece already familiar to me but not under the moniker Gnossienne - and so the mini-album started to take form. I could never perfect the work though, and decided to bring in Marmalade Soup to create alternative versions of the work already started. This is where the project really took off and became it's own thing.
Some pieces transformed into jazz, one piece even uncovered a Tom Waits-like form - something I'd never heard in the original piano pieces.
This is a project of love and a tribute to one of the very biggest musical influences I have.