Richard Barraclough was born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire in 1964. His interest in music started to develop in his teens with the standard introduction of 'electric guitar as birthday present'. In the mid-1980s a move to London widened musical horizons. Barraclough played lead guitar in a West-London pub rock band - The Perfect Strangers - but this involvement in live music was curtailed when he started to work full-time in a recording studio (Eden Studios) initially as a tape op'/assistant engineer and thence as a sound engineer. By the 1990s, having become disenchanted with the idea of a career in music, Barraclough went into higher education, ultimately being awarded a doctorate from the University of Cardiff in the field of contemporary Italian politics before settling on a career in the Civil Service. Throughout his time away from 'music' however, an interst of guitars, sound and tone remained. This interest was combined with a long-standing love of ambient music (particularly Robert Fripp and Brian Eno) to manifest itself in the ambient style guitar loop-based tracks which Barraclough produces from his home in Yorkshire. He is keen to collaborate with other like minded musicians to further develop and expand his output. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Richard+Barraclough">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.