Mark Rolfe, Echoplex, Huw Costin

Mark Rolfe is a composer and produced based in Nottingham, UK. His work draws on a rich and eclectic musical life, shaped by a deep affinity for both natural and sonic sound worlds, and grounded in traditional techniques alongside influences from popular and folk traditions. Mark is inspired by everything from Arvo Pärt to The Aphex Twin and Sonic Youth to Aaron Copland. His main musical muse for over 30 years has been Brian Wilson, a love that grows deeper each day.

A versatile multi-instrumentalist and guitarist by trade, Mark is also an active cellist, clarinettist, pianist, percussionist and sound engineer. Working from his fully equipped home studio, he creates emotionally resonant soundscapes defined by expansive musical spaces, layered textures, and quietly haunting melodic sounds.

Echoplex is an attempt to capture the ethereal beauty and magic that is all around us in nature - in the seasons, the sun, the moon, trees, birds, stones …

Using drones, found sounds, layering, echoes, delay, happy accidents, harmonies, space and calmness, Echoplex examines the possibilities of the natural harmonic structures and sounds that can be found within a guitar.

Echoplex is Terry Smith and his ‘lunar music’ is born out of a lifetime spent listening to, thinking about and loving music.

Huw Costin is a singer-songwriter inspired by the greats - Roy Harper, John Martyn, Lucinda Williams & Joni Mitchell, but with a bent for sonic experimentation and a wilful acceptance of a promiscuous muse.

He's recorded with Mark Lanegan, E.R. Thorpe, Michael Chapman, Andre Lodemann, Stubb, Smith & Mudd and BJ Smith and more.