Ewan Mackenzie aka Dextro returns with a third album, expanding the musical and auditory scope of a brooding and uplifting sound. Following the acclaimed Consequence Music (Gronland Records, 2007, alongside Neu!, Harmonia), Winded (16k records, 2009) and releases through James Holden’s Border Community, A Strangely Isolated Place and Ninjatune, In the crossing takes Dextro into new musical territory shaped by haunting minimalist melodies, drone, candid rhythms and psychedelic experimentation.
As Dextro, Mackenzie has been committed to creating primarily instrumental soundscapes built from his own recordings, be it piano, percussion, guitar or found sounds from a range of urban or natural surroundings. In part, the album is reminiscent of Dextro’s live performances alongside Loscil, Bonobo and Jacaszek, where live percussion, guitar and synth drones interchange to create what commentators have described as feeling ‘akin to climbing and descending a mountain’. From the motorik beats and synth driven exploits of ‘Break off’, to the haunting piano of ‘Clearing’, In the crossing charts a journey that brings the indescribable into focus. 
Dextro, the latest addition to the Border Community family, turned up literally right on our doorstep. Little did we realise when listening through Ewan Mackenzie’s demo tracks that this young Scot was at the time living literally just up the road from the
Border Community HQ, having decamped to London to study music.
Dividing his time between drumming in droning melodic sludge band Snowblood and his solo project Dextro, Ewan is one multi-talented individual, playing drums, guitar and synths and also a bit of a dab-hand at computer-based music production.
The Dextro story begins when a young Ewan Mackenzie migrates from rural Scotland to Glasgow to embrace the city’s vibrant music scene - swapping CDs at gigs and staging makeshift jams and listening sessions in friend’s flats. It is only a matter of time before
he finds himself playing in a Joy Division covers band and running his own electronica nights at Glasgow’s legendary 13th Note, and the Dextro concept is born.