Scott Cortez - (b.1969) is a guitarist that has been creating ambient textural music and video work since the late 80's. 'Cortez is a founding father of a whole lately emergent guitar-abstracted ambient-drone tradition. Any number of tracks going back over the years reveal Cortez’s artful recontextualisation of the tropes of the ambient-dreampo-shoegaze genre; floats free from the de rigueur digital means of production of our age, continuing to navigate by lo-fi colour - guitar-wrought, loop-pedal-refracted, 4-track cassette-captured' 'With learned guidance from the sounds of Eno and Robin Guthrie et al - he works with treated guitars to create corruscating layers of velveteen drones, sheets of whitenoise roars, and blissed ambient spaces, often teetering on the brink of drifting into more secluded, and shadowy spaces but always remaining within view of the light'.