Recorded over the course of a few months, Moth Nor Rust was the first release by Sounds Are Active (at that time, 1999, called Mantis Music). We pressed and sold almost 200 copies of this album on CD-R’s. I had to burn each individual track because I didn’t have a CD burner on my computer at the time. Eventually the album was mastered, then remastered and is now available for free from the Sounds Are Active website.

I get slightly nostalgic when thinking back on this time. Create (!), from the beginning, was pure fun. Steve Richardson, Orlando Greenhill and I just loved playing music with each other. We never practiced and always let it all hang out on stage. Of course that made for some harrowing live performances but it was always interesting. I can’t think of a better way to become acclimated to taking chances in front of an audience.

Soon Create (!) would change for the first time. We would enter a new phase that included extremely important contributions from Ian Souter (who plays on a few Moth Nor Rust cuts) and Danny Levin. We would then record Patterns.

Personnel
Orlando Greenhill- electric bass, electronics, voice
Richard Greenhill- keyboard
Steve Richardson- drums, sampler, electronics
Chris Schlarb- electric guitar, clarinet, electronics
Ian Souter- trumpet

Produced and Mixed by Create (!)
Engineered by Chris Schlarb