Name: Morcheeba
Members: Skye Edwards, Ross Godfrey.
Current release: Morcheeba's new EP Remix The Chaos Vol. 1 is out April 17th 2026 via 100% Records. The release features reworking of material off their latest full-length, Escape the Chaos.
Hometown Recommendations: I am from Hythe in Kent and the sea was always the most important feature, it was an inspiration and a solace.
Things I am passionate about but rarely get to talk about: Lots of things. I love Geology and Anthropology a lot, old stuf is just cool. I have recently been reading a lot of books about Physics and I love thinking about the nature of the universe. Is infnity real? What is time? Those are the things that I’d be doing more of if I wasn’t making music.

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Where does the impulse to create something come from for you? What role do often-quoted sources of inspiration like dreams, other forms of art, personal relationships, politics etc play?

Music is abstract, it is very hard to say where it comes from. I would say it is quite subconscious, Monsters from the ID kinda stuff.

I find it easier to create if I haven’t played in a while and I don’t try to play anything in particular, just let it flow. Then it is a case of editing your ideas or sculpting something precise from the raw form.

For you to get started, do there need to be concrete ideas – or what some have called a 'visualisation' of the fnished work? What does the balance between planning and chance look like for you?

I find it best to start with no plan because the plan never works. I follow the music to where it wants to go.

Once you have a handful of songs you can start to feel where the centre of gravity is.

Is there a preparation phase for your process? Do you require your tools to be laid out in a particular way, for example, do you need to do 'research' or create 'early versions'?

I just need some time, space and either a guitar, piano or a dictaphone to mumble into.

Ideas can come at awkward times, normally just before you fall asleep so having something to record them onto within arms reach is important.

Do you have certain rituals to get you into the right mindset for creating? What role do certain foods or stimulants like cofee, lighting, scents, exercise or reading poetry play?

I don’t have any rituals. I used to smoke weed all the time, but now I occasionally eat edibles to relax.

I find going for a walk or run can help hone an idea, especially lyrically.

For your latest release, what did you start with? If there were conceptual considerations, what were they?

Most of the tracks on Escape the Chaos started as rhythms, beats and found sound loops. I had been working on some soundtrack stuff that was Musique concrète so that technique kinda spilled over and I used a lot of non musical sounds to build textures.

The intro to "We Live and Die" is a good example.c



Tell me a bit about the way the new material developed and gradually took its final form, please.

Once I have some music cooking I send it to Skye and she writes melodies and then lyrics.

If we like what the song is doing, we will put more work into it and see if it is possible to finish it. About half the songs we start make it onto a record.

What makes lyrics good in your opinion? What are your own ambitions and challenges in this regard?

I like lyrics that are enigmatic and can work on multiple levels. Originality is also an important feature.

What are areas/themes/topics that you keep returning to in your lyrics?

Skye often writes about the people around her and how we change as we grow.

Good lyrics are self aware and can lead to realisations and hopefully solutions to the things that concern you.

Many writers have claimed that as soon as they enter into the process, certain aspects of the narrative are out of their hands. Do you like to keep strict control or is there a sense of following things where they lead you?

If a song has a life of its own, then it is usually because it has a strong will to live. You then have to make a decision whether you actually want it to live out in the real world or not.

There are many descriptions of the creative state. How would you describe it for you personally? Is there an element of spirituality to what you do?

I liken it to being hypnotized. You have to withdraw conscious thought and just let things happen, not worrying if it is right or wrong.

When playing an instrument I find it helps to close your eyes or stare at a pattern to let your mind wander.

Once a piece is finished, how important is it for you to let it lie and evaluate it later on? How much improvement and refinement do you personally allow until you're satisfied with a piece?

Sometimes songs can come together in a couple of days, other times they kick around for decades before the missing element is found and it is finished.

As a general rule, I find if you’ve saved over 40 or 50 versions on your computer software it is probably never going to get finished.

How do you think the meaning, or effect of an individual piece is enhanced, clarified or possibly contrasted by the EPs, or albums it is part of? Does each piece, for example, need to be consistent with the larger whole?

I see the songs as the planets and the album as the sun. So you need a solar system for them to make sense as a whole.

They can work individually but you can normally tell they belong in a set.

In terms of what they contribute to a song, what is the balance between the composition and the arrangement (including production, mixing and mastering)?

I think it is about equal at the end of the day.

It is always interesting doing radio edits because you get to see if the song survives having bits amputated.

Music and the accompanying artwork are often closely related. Can you talk about this a little bit for your current project and the relationship that images and sounds have for you in general?

We did a festival in Perpignan a few years back and I saw an amazing piece of street art walking around the town. I found out who the artist was and invited her to the show where Skye.

I asked her to make something for our next album when we finally had it recorded. Her name is Caroline Darche. I like collage type covers or a single striking photo.

After finishing a piece or album and releasing something into the world, there can be a sense of emptiness. Can you relate to this – and how do you return to the state of creativity after experiencing it?

I am very happy to get something out of my studio and into the world. I have a sense of relief and it is normally a year or so before I want to start any new projects.

We usually tour for a year or two so that takes up a lot of mind space, rehearsals, live production and planning etc.

I would love to know a little about the feedback you've received from listeners or critics about what they thought some of your songs are about or the impact it had on them – have there been “misunderstandings” or did you perhaps even gain new “insights?”

There are always misunderstandings and that can be an interesting aspect as people translate the songs for themselves.

I like to hear what people think of the records, they normally see things in them I don’t.

Creativity can reach many diferent corners of our lives. Do you personally feel as though writing a piece of music is inherently diferent from something like making a great cup of cofee? What do you express through music that you couldn't or wouldn't in more 'mundane' tasks?

Music is the first human artform. We learned to sing and play before we had art or language even. It is primeval and expresses deep feelings that our modern world cannot grasp.

So yeah, it is different from anything else we do.