Ed: I had a feeling that what I’m trying to do is, I’m trying to make sort of sacred music. I listen to a lot of Alice Coltrane, devotional music. I love it, but I don’t want to force it. It has to be a very natural thing, because I also like powerful music. When you hear a track like “Kashmir” by Led Zeppelin, there’s a power to it, there’s a sacredness to that music. I think Zeppelin touched those moments really brilliantly. I listened to [John Coltrane’s] A Love Supreme a lot, trying to understand the language of that, or just the feeling of that. I never force anything, it’s just what comes out, and it’s like feeling, okay, that feels right.

Ed: I sort of stopped listening to music in that first lockdown. I’d had enough. I was suddenly aware of this extraordinary birdsong. [...] I got the Merlin app so I could start identifying all of the bird sounds. [...] I had a microphone outside to record the birds, and I realized I wanted to make a track out of birdsong.

I was also interested in sacred music that has a transcendence within. Jeff Buckley, Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, and Miles Davis all had that same connection with the divine. I listened to A Love Supreme a lot because I wanted to understand and feel John’s connection and his strength. Spirit of Eden, by Talk Talk, is an amazing record and I leant into that a bit. But I was really interested in Coltrane. I was inspired by a lot of Brazilian jazz, people like Jorge Ben and Joyce Moreno.