Richard Davies & Distant Animals : Forfeda.

Experimental sax and synthesis inspired by the medieval Ogham alphabet.

Recording an album with someone you’ve never met over the internet becomes its own quiet adventure — two strangers trading sound, shaping atmosphere across distance. Ideas drift through messages, sketches evolve in shared folders, and a kind of remote trust forms as textures merge. The music becomes the meeting point: a slow‑growing collaboration where intuition replaces conversation, and the finished album feels like a dream built by two people who finally meet inside the sound. With no real knowledge of one another before embarking on the project, the artists were forced to bypass many of the tried and tested collaborative methods – shared histories, experiences, or cultural knowledge was jettisoned in favour of a more incremental, practice-led approach. Sending recording back and forth, unearthing new articulations of ideas, reconfigurations of material that morphed and grew in surprising and unexpected ways. Like the Ogham alphabet for which the album was named, creating FORFEDA relied on a certain level of incomprehension. Symbols and marks recorded in a different time and only picked up later, by another human in another place - their meaning always a cautious, delicate process of exploration and interpretation.

Richard Davies: Saxophone

Daniel Alexander Hignell-Tully: Electronics, keys, Lotar