Joe Harvey-Whyte & Paul Cousins + Lone Mesa + Feld

Sunday, 23 November 2025 at 14:00 at The Holloway, Norwich

in a fugue state finds pedal-steel guitar maestro Joe Harvey-Whyte collaborating with tape loop sound scientist Paul Cousins on a warped ambient excursion into the subconscious. Originally written and recorded in one night, the eight tracks of hypnotic electro-acoustic music explore the concept of memory and time. The duo study how we remember and misremember things; forming an imperfect reorganisation of time, events and emotional states. This album exists at a cross-section where loss, confusion, trauma and dissociation meet moments of joy, healing, acceptance and groundlessness. in a fugue state was born out of a single two hour long improvisation session between Joe and Paul on “The Dream Stream”, Joe’s Soho Radio show focused on ambient/field recording/drone music designed to assist those who struggle with insomnia. This original session was then intuitively framed and mixed down to the eight tracks that make up the album. A fugue state is a temporary dissociative mental state wh…