Simon Collins
When Sound Of Contact released Dimensionaut in 2013, the band were tipped as the next big thing in progressive rock. The quartet – Simon Collins, Kelly Nordstrom, Dave Kerzner and Matt Dorsey – won the Limelight prize at the second Prog Awards and everyone waited with anticipation for their second album. But it never arrived.
In January 2018, Simon Collins and Kelly Nordstrom officially announced their departure from the band, yet the two musicians continued to collaborate, working together on Collins’ 2020 solo album, Becoming Human. It was during the making of that record that guitarist Nordstrom planted the seed that grew into the duo’s new band, eMolecule, and their debut album, The Architect.
It started innocuously enough, with Nordstrom coming up with a guitar lick that formed the basis for the track that gives the project its name, while Collins and producer. “eMolecule came out of the ether,” says Nordstrom. “The riff just fell out of my fingers. I recorded the demo in the room I was staying at, and it really had a positive impact with Simon.”
