Membranes

Membranes is the 5th LP by American ambient artist Memorybell. After three previous releases of modular synth-based daydreams – Solace (2020), No Anchor (2021) and Glass Garden (2021) – multi-instrumentalist Grant Hazard Outerbridge returns to his roots with seven meditative piano pieces, his first album of solo piano since Obsolete (2016), which was inspired by his struggles with amnesia.

Membranes explores the liminal regions associated with pain. Between December 2020 and November 2021, Outerbridge was in agony caused by the side effects of various medications. He underwent multiple surgeries and spent much of the year incapacitated in bed. Membranes - a reference to staring through pain while imagining one is somewhere else - is the result. The songs were recorded at home, and their physical spaces are blended with unreal ones, to mimic the experience of being in two places at once, one real and one imagined.