Slow rewind

A collaboration between Cities and Memory and Elska built from a field recording of waves on La Guardia beach, Elba, Italy.

Cities and Memory: "The recording of the waves from Elba conjured up a mood that I felt an instrumental track alone couldn't communicate. Having become a fan of Elska's music after she contributed to our Inferno project last year, I thought her voice would be ideal for what I had in mind and approached her with the idea. In the instrumental track, the waves are at the heart, running through its centre and chopped up and timed so they undulate in time with the bassline. The guitars and synths are the sparkling crests of the waves as they wash over the rocks from where the recording was made, and Elska brings the missing ingredients."

Elska: "Having been a fan of Stuart's Cities and Memory project for quite some time, I was delighted at the opportunity to collaborate on a beautiful, instrumental composition that he was working on. Intuitively, I tend to hear overl