The Hope - Circuit3 & Vince Clarke

video upload by Circuit 3

Update: you can find an interview with Circuit3 and the collaboration on ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK here.

"With grateful thanks to artist Jackie Hudson Lalor for the production of this video and Kat Lalor for assistance with post-production.

The Hope is taken from the album 'Metanoia: Music From Therapy' available on CD & Vinyl from circuit3.bandcamp.com, available in Digital from mortalitytables.bandcamp.com

Circuit3, the retro-futurist project of Dublin-based Peter Fitzpatrick, steps away from his melodic synthpop background on Metanoia. The album moves into spacious, quietly expressive instrumentals. The sound is minimal and tactile, shaped by the classic late70s and early80s electronic vocabulary without being locked inside it.

Metanoia grew out of therapy and the slow process of letting difficult truths surface. Instead of singing those words, Fitzpatrick shaped them through analogue machines. The title refers to the deep shift that can follow self-reflection: a break, a reset, a way of living with more honesty.

A defining moment in the project was the opportunity to work with Vince Clarke, a longstanding influence on Fitzpatrick’s music. They created an eleven-minute piece titled ‘The Hope’, named after the bar near Farringdon, London where that first conversation between Fitzpatrick and Smith happened. The collaboration feels like a dialogue across time: the artist Fitzpatrick once was, the one he is now, and the one emerging through this process.

The album closes with ‘The Hope’. Across eleven minutes, it builds a melodic drone landscape that holds both hopelessness and hope at the same time. The piece suggests that neither feeling disappears; they sit beside each other, always present, always waiting to be recognised."