Steve Jolliffe

The album's an unusual one enhanced by text relating the essence of Steve's experiences. Already another album is in the pipeline and the equipment used on 'Journeys' has been replaced by some of the latest in technology — a Yamaha DX7 and Roland JX-3P permanently MIDI-linked, a TEAC 38 8-track and mixer and a selection of wind instruments — minus the Lyricon which has been retired in favour of the more traditional expression of flute and sax.

"I've always been a bit of a rebel, and I tend to do the opposite of what everybody else is doing. Recently I started using a Yamaha RX11 drum machine, then changed down to an RX15 because the difference wasn't all that great for the sort of music I was doing. It does help having an all-Yamaha setup with the RX15, DX7, TX7 and the QX7 sequencer, but the drum machine takes a back seat, being used more as a part of a sequence than as a drum backing. And of course the wind instruments are always there."

"I've always been a bit of a rebel, and I tend to do the opposite of what everybody else is doing. Recently I started using a Yamaha RX11 drum machine, then changed down to an RX15 because the difference wasn't all that great for the sort of music I was doing. It does help having an all-Yamaha setup with the RX15, DX7, TX7 and the QX7 sequencer, but the drum machine takes a back seat, being used more as a part of a sequence than as a drum backing. And of course the wind instruments are always there."

"It's called Japanese Butterfly, and it should be on release now. Originally we were going to call it Death of a Japanese Butterfly, but the marketing people in the States thought that sounded a little negative. Instead I've called the last track Ko Cho No Shi, which roughly translates as Lonely Butterfly Death, so I managed to get it in somewhere! There are ten short tracks and the whole album was recorded at home on a Tascam 38 eight-track with a Quantec Room Simulator for reverb effects."

"The album was mastered using a digital PCM-F1 system, which is wonderful. When I bought the 38 I had considered getting a PCM-F1 and two video machines and recording by bouncing back and forth and overdubbing, but now I'll probably buy an F1 for mastering."