Piano Magic Diaries : Artists’ Rifles

“I was later to realise that Woodbine, as with many other studios, was really just a blank canvas on which to paint. That we arrived with our brushes and next to no ideas was somewhat ironic.”

Piano Magic Diaries : The Troubled Sleep

“Did we want to be on a label called Green Ufos? We were called Piano Magic for fuck’s sake, so we couldn’t exactly throw stones in that glasshouse.”

The Durutti Column – ‘Without Mercy’ (Factory Records, 1984/Factory Benelux, 2018)

“But wait! A drum machine in a modern classical piece? Only on Factory Records. I’ve never, to this day, heard anything so wrong be so right. “

Jane And Barton – ‘Jane And Barton’ (Cherry Red, 1983/Optic Nerve Recordings, 2016)

“…if you listen carefully, you can almost hear the sound of a gentle breeze in the rushes as you laze on a soft picnic blanket, staring up into the blissful blue.”

Pacific – ‘Inference’ (Creation Records, 1990)

“In every race, the also-ran, in every play, the understudy, at every festival, a bottom of the bill. And so to Pacific. “

Insides – ‘Euphoria’ (Guernica, 1993)

“We’re not interested in being experimental or difficult. I see ‘Euphoria’ as this Astrid Gilberto thing, or even like the Bjork album: something pleasant, something nice.”