Jon Ryman (Interloper) was born in Brighton but grew up in various cities across Canada.. "another year, another school, another city".. before returning to England in 1988.

By the age of 13, he was playing piano & guitar but the time spent travelling helped develop a curious interest in everyday sounds. The sounds of motion, as John Cage says, where "every moment is a performance". He bought a portable tape recorder & started collecting these ‘sound pictures’ and this was to become an important part of Interloper.

In 1994 Jon released an experimental CD ‘Artifice & Architecture’ that paved the way for the astonishing ‘Augur’ album in ‘96.
‘Augur’ was a new generation of electronic listening music, an eclectic montage of techno & found sounds. It was described as… "stunningly beautiful music, the way techno should be - anarchic, imaginative and heart stopping"…

Music only made a bad travelbug worse and the next 5 years were spent between Los Angeles and London, working in studios, getting married, getting divorced, and recording new material. During this, the two EP’s ‘Dependency Culture’ and ‘Bitchslapper’ were released. They were both a departure that reflected a meltdown of mid-atlantic styles: West Coast jazz, indie, hiphop, blues and UK electronica.

All of this was then fused, abused & reused on the most recent album "Six Dragons". Jon is now back in Brighton and has abandoned the computer-based studio environment. He's assembling a mechanical orchestra and building a retro analog recording studio. The only hard-drive he uses now is the car-park outside.

 

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