"I escaped to the country. It had been a long time coming. It felt like the town was blotting out my sense of creativity.

The rural lifestyle inspired my guitar playing. A new wave of musical ideas emerged, each captured as voice memos on my iPhone. I accumulated a vast number of songs, progressions, riffs, snippets, moods. Everything came from nowhere, like transmissions from another place.

Using my laptop and a cheap classical guitar, I began to arrange, record and expand the ideas into songs, painting layers of music and texture on top. The words were either stream-of-consciousness improvisations and/or developed as I went along.

I recorded a lot of tracks during this 18-month process. It was a very relaxed gestation period. There are no electric guitars, only nylon-stringed acoustics. I played every instrument, sung every note, did it all by myself.

Eleven of the songs from this time span make up 'Fieldwork'. They were written some time between early 2013 through to June 2015. An 'expanded' edition of the album was released in February 2021."

Jason Allen, July 2015.