THE HAUNTED GENERATION

“As a child growing up in the 1980s, the threat of nuclear war was always present,” remembers Dr Michael Mulvihill, “and the possibility of being given four minutes’ notice of the world ending. RAF Fylingdales was built to provide that notice…”

Michael is the slightly implausible artist-in-residence at this beautifully windswept military base on the North York Moors. At the height of the Cold War, its iconic “golf ball” geodesic domes were built to detect incoming Soviet missiles, and these memories of lingering dread have inspired Worldly Noise and Electronic Atmospheres, a new album recorded by Michael and North-Eastern electronica wizard Chris Tate. “We wanted to capture the flow of electro-magnetic waves through equipment, and the invisible churn of radio frequencies over the moors,” he continues. “The result hopefully speaks of a sense of threat, but also evokes the hills, the North Sea and the extra-terrestrial domain of low Earth orbit…”

Michael and Chris, recording as.