After a number of years of collaborating with numerous musicians in several bands and many more years of songwriting Ivo Bernard has become the solo artist he is today. The EP Cloud Nine Echo was the prelude four years ago. Memory Man shows how a wide range of songs in all its diversity still represent one sound. The secret of this unity? Ivo Bernard is a memory finder. He digs his memory, not systematic, but intuitively, until it encounters a patch, a glimpse, a little chunk of something he recognizes. A scent perhaps, an image, a feeling, a sound. The notes and chords will follow automatically, as the words don’t turn their attention to sentence structure and sequence, but instead go their own way and in the end still belong together. Each song is a text image, an impression, a nostalgic journey to a place within the memory of Ivo Bernard. The subdued and slowly swelling Temporary Pink, the small Here We Are, which leads you right back to the heyday of Crosby Stills & Nash, the catchy opening track On Time - you feel them, more than you could express them in words. For a reason the first line of the title song reads: 'Memory Man I know you can just read between the lines. " Each song echoes the idiosyncratic ability of Ivo Bernard to his listener to rapture and surprise. Even if that means it doesn’t share specific memories. The emotion lies between the lines.