A companion to Lecu’s Leck, Coral Sea’s If Memory Serves Me is the latest instalment in Lo Recordings’ ‘S-P-A-C-I-O-U-S-N-E-S-S’ series of meditative cassettes. The London-based artist, known to his folks as Ed Banton, first appeared on Lo remixing “Balearic pop” duo Private Agenda a couple of years ago. In keeping with his chosen alias Ed wrangles water-like rhythms and resonances from assorted guitars. Tastefully twisting tones and textures into a shifting, soothing, ethereal caress. The resulting synthesised sighs, almost imperceptibly rising and falling in tides, siren-like drawing those within earshot into their divine diaphanous drift. 

The music is far more understated, meditative, than that of his label mate, Lecu. A collection of moods rather than melodies. Amorphous, evolving, ambient atmospheres of elegantly exploded echoes. The vapour-like swells, the fog of fragile featherlight frequencies, holding a crackle, that hints at collaged, disintegrated percussion. The dancing debris, minutiae magnified. Shattered seashells rattling somewhere within the radically reduced dub techno diffractions. Keys blinking like guiding beacons. 

A deep dive into deep listening, where slowly stretched sine waves are summoned from isolated pedal steel notes, it allows only glimpses of the source instrument’s true vibrati / glissandi voice. Brief buzzes of its strings. The sonic serenity, super peaceful oceanic passages, buoyed by bottomless bass, and washed by the static of distant surf. An Orb-like fine – flotation tank worthy – weaving of field recordings. The latticed, layered labyrinth sucking you into an indefinable inner space. Inducing altered states. The void is everywhere and nowhere, baby. 

Coral Sea’s If Memory Serves Me is out now on Lo Recordings.