"The track was made on my laptop over the course of a day on the steps of the current [Fred Gibberd's winning design] cathedral, using field recordings and material recordings from the site to build synth sound, as well as sample of real-life choral prayer there from last week, also using actual reverb from the site itself.

The proposed unbuilt cathedral looks to me like a huge concrete plant of some sort that is blossoming out, so I tried to play around sonically with those ideas of layers unfurling and opening up.

The piece is a kind of imagining of what music, movement and texture might feel like in and around that 'unbuilt' cathedral –

a jump to a different timeline."

– Forest Swords

"... a Flash Gordon grouping of rocket-like structures, the means by which mortal man could now escape the bonds of Earth and touch the heavenly firmament. Whilst more prosaic eyes may consider their resemblance to a 1950’s jelly mould, less benignly they also remind one of a cluster of readied missiles." [Ed Montana-Williams].

The competition to design a new catholic cathedral for Liverpool took in some of the most innovative ideas of 50's architecture, and takes us on a journey into how the future might have looked.

In particular, C.H.R. Bailey's design is a definite competitor to legendary planner Fred Gibberd's iconic, winning entry, now known as Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, which today looks out across the city.