Brian MALONE's debut album, "The Mechanical Voices" (Musea Parallèle, 2008), is a lush soundscape of experimental music where there are no boundaries, written, produced, and engineered by the irish artist himself. Although ambient in feel overall, this album features a mixed bag of musical adventure. There is a diverse range of instruments used on the album, all played by Brian MALONE and accompanied by sampled voices, with various sounds such as music boxes, bells, operatic voices and atmospheric pads. There are differerent musical blood types running through the veins of this album. While there is strong evidence of a strong rock guitar background, the album itself is an ecclectic mix which fluctuates from being sinister and foreboding to more gentle and whimsical with a sprinkling of world. The artist lists PINK FLOYD, Mike OLDFIELD, SIGUR ROS and PUCCINI among his influences, and has evidently drawn inspiration from some of his heros for this album and has combined the use of repetition and the layering of textures reminiscent of minimalists like Philip GLASS and Michael NYMAN.