Over the aching beats and lonely piano of Sleepless City, three soft voices spin bitter words of exhaustion and despair in the dark underbelly of the city: "I'm in the depths of London / Straight up in the depths of a dungeon." In the elegiac breakbeat song S'alright, two people in very different parts of the night reassure themselves everything's going to be fine.
NightJam was a musical collaboration by acclaimed artist Scanner (Robin Rimbaud) with young people who have been homeless. NightJam presented two music tracks and a photographic montage, plus a limited edition CD distributed for free through the project's original website.
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