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'I thought she was a great choice because she was looking to make a pop crossover, and I like what she stands for. 'Actually, I was going to use an 'unknown' singer until someone at my record company suggested Amy Grant,'' who had thus far only been known for Contemporary Christian music. ''I was looking for somebody who wasn't that logical a choice,' he explained. Now it was a matter of Cetera deciding who would be his singing partner. 'It was an accidental duet, meaning it was never intended to be a duet-but the producers found ways to make it a duet, which ended up working out pretty well.' It was simply meant to be-the song landed with the singer we wanted.' Gordon also felt the project had a happy ending. He loved the tune and wanted to record it as a duet. However, a short time later, I got a call at home from Cetera himself who stumbled upon our demo cassette tape of the song in producer/arranger David Foster's office. We had his voice in mind, but Paul and I were unaware that he was leaving Chicago at that time, and when we heard the news our hopes were dashed. 'And even when he was no longer in Chicago we decided to stick with him.' Caldwell confirmed, 'We did indeed write the song for Chicago and their lead vocalist Peter Cetera. Gordon explained that Caldwell did the vocals on the demo and that they wrote the song for Cetera to sing.

Sometimes these collaborations click and sometimes not, but this was a smooth and painless venture.' It was a lot of fun working with Bobby.' The feeling was mutual for Caldwell: 'Yes, writing with Paul was a great experience. We spent a couple of inspired days knocking out that song. 'Bobby had just moved into a new apartment, and all he had was a drum machine and a chair. Primarily purveying a sense of endorphin-flushed tranquillity, they build synthetic, bucolic, lysergic landscapes, which although imbued with processed plasticity also contain multi-stranded depths of textural field.Songwriter Paul Gordon recalled working on the project with Bobby Caldwell. Hitting the centre at the ven diagram of these interests, the record converges the trio’s individual sound worlds into something singular.

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Wide-ranging influences on the LP include 70s era ECM and Miles Davis, Spencer Clark/Star Searchers, Ansel Adams, Steve Reich, H Takahashi, Don Slepian, The Blue Nile, Talk Talk’s ‘Spirit Of Eden’, Michael Gordon’s ‘Rushes for 8 Bassoons’, Sir Simon Rattle’s documentary ‘Leaving Home’, Horoshi Yoshimura, Ulla Strauss and Disasterpeace, plus new developments in vaporwave and software experimental.

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Richard Pike has had multiple records on Warp as a member of PVT, collaborated with Modeselektor and Ital Tek, recorded under his alter-ego Deep Learning, and founded the tape label Salmon Universe, all whilst composing scores for TV drama. Whilst JQ has released on Boxed and Lo Recordings, with his music also remixed by Loraine James, Sun Araw and Foodman. Jack Wyllie is best known for his work with Portico Quartet, Paradise Cinema and Szun Waves as well as collaborations with artists such as Luke Abbott, Adrian Corker and Charles Hayward. A world where shiny electronics meet flute and sax motifs, subverting them into something new. The mood whilst recording, however, was one of loose freedom and enjoyment, with parts displaying a light-hearted playfulness. Intertwining the acoustic, electric and digital, utilising instruments and tools from across the decades, their synthesized Shangri La is a place where craftsmanship meets musicianship, even including sections notated on sheet music. This genesis began with the sharing of music, burgeoning friendships, and the mutually-inspirational benefit of the collective power of a group dynamic, with each spurring the next on to heighten their already expansive skills.

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Described as “not really jazz, not really new age, not really ambient or electronica”, instead they welcome you into a synaesthesia-inducing technicolour fantasy, full of wondrous emotive beauty. On June 3rd Gondwana Records present ‘Next Time Could Be Your Last Time’ – the debut album by Forgiveness, AKA Jack Wyllie, JQ and Richard Pike.

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