John Metcalfe is a musician of many hats. The composer, producer, arranger and violist has been a member of post-punk band The Durutti Column, collaborated with a number of iconic artists such as Peter Gabriel, Blur, The Pretenders and Coldplay as well as arranging music for theatre and TV. Recently, and in keeping with this spirit of versatility that he has become known for, Metcalfe has invited four contemporary musicians to remix tracks of his 2018 oeuvre ‘Absence’: The genre-crossing artist involved in the first single is the Swedish electronic music producer Sebastian Mullaert. Some of the recurrent themes in Mullaert’s work are those of tranquillity, stillness, Zen meditation and nature, “I start working with the sounds. Looping, playing, shaping, like a ceramist working with clay. This process becomes a mantra; a meditation, and my studio becomes filled with sounds and rhythms... echoes from the original song,” says Mullaert of his creative process while remixing. The two remixes contained on this single are his personal view on the work of John Metcalfe.