The Memory Band

Performing pastoral British folk with a veneer of electronics and a knowing nod to the burgeoning freak folk scene, the Memory Band is the creation of musician and songwriter Stephen Cracknell. A former bass player with Badly Drawn Boy and proprietor of the Trunk Records label, Cracknell previously released several records under the name Gorodisch, in which he melded electronic and folk elements, and in 2003 he launched the Memory Band as (in his words) "an imaginary group playing music drawn from the collective databank" that existed in only his computer. The phantom ensemble...