Sembalance is an ongoing instrumental music project, mostly centred around Hardware Sequenced passages, with various amounts of live input, now involving close collaboration between Bene on the synth/seqencing/recording side, and Ed with the inspirational guitar work.

In the beginning a rare surplus in the bank balance failed to make it into the pension scheme and, quite rightly, was squandered on synthesisers. The following years with bene saw an involvement in a small assortment of synth and indie rock bands, (Headzoo, Crush, P.pig) but behind it all, sembalance was always lurking ...

Sembalance tracks are initially put together by Bene, with Ed adding guitar to the soundscape (guilty of previous with Purple Algae, Harlem, In Brief and Jules Jubless...). Other musicians have contributed in the past, namely Steve and Manton on guitar and Mac on percussion and vocals.

Moods and ideas are sporadically transformed into music, sometimes in the form of long ambient voyages, at other times in what has been described as "keyboard driven space rock" or more recently as "trans-ambient rock" ... call it what you will, every piece evolves into the final product, following its own path, with no preconceived influence.

And for those who haven't already moved on to the interesting stuff, here's a list of our gear .....