Smoke & Tea started as a conversation. Bernard (Outputmessage) asked Patrick (Blinkhorn) what his favorite album of 2017 was. Patrick said that he resonated most with Brian Eno’s Reflection, which happened to be one of Bernard’s favorite albums of the year as well.
This mutual admiration for Brian Eno led the duo to start recording music on Sunday afternoons over tea in Bernard’s attic. Bernard and Patrick completed their appropriately named Sunday Afternoon album, which was mastered by Christopher Willits and released digitally in 2020. Their second album, Oceans on Mars, was released on Not Yet Remembered Records on June 18, 2021. In November 2021, Smoke & Tea released In Real Life, Vol. 1, the first installment in a series of live performance albums. High Tea is Smoke & Tea’s latest release and is out now on Black Techno Matters. Smoke & Tea's live performance setup consists of Patrick looping sounds from Moog synthesizers alongside Bernard, who sings above a variety of Roland instruments.
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