Red Sargasso

Prospector Sound is the alter-ego of Manchester musician Richard Talbot, who is most well known as a founding member of Marconi Union. Talbot (under various pseudonyms) has been making ambient music since the late 1980s when the genre was still in its infancy and was a part of the cassette scene that flourished around that time. Over the past thirty-five years, rather than vacillating between different musical poles, Talbot has chosen to constantly refine and adjust his core concept of sonically capturing real or imaginary spaces. He notes: "Whenever I make music, I'm making imaginary places for myself." The music largely eschews rhythm and places a heavy emphasis on evocative atmospherics - these can be warm, dark or mysterious or sometimes all of these things at the same time. One consistent feature of Prospector Sound music is its organic quality often emphasized by the employment of processed found