self-released collection of the band's visual work (short films, music videos and animations), collated on a limited edition 90-minute DVD called Shadow Shows of the Phantascope These would be the band's last commercial releases for a decade. Release hiatus/work in other artistic areas Following the release of Prisoner of the Seven Pines and Shadow Shows of the Phantascope, Cuckston permanently left the band in 2008 to concentrate on academia. Partly as a consequence of this, Pram went into a period of dormancy as far as commercial releases were concerned for almost a decade. The remaining band members worked on other projects, both separately and together. In 2010 and 2001, Pram collaborated with visual artist "Film Ficciones" (filmmaker Scott Johnston) on a large scale multi platform show that used early cinematic techniques, shadow-play, theater and a live musical performance in silhouette to soundtrack a three-screen film produced by Johnston and the band. The piece "Shadow Shows" premiered at Supersonic Festival Birmingham, touring to Germany and then headlining the closing day of the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2011. In 2012 the group recorded a series of experimental works at Jochen Hans Irmler's Klangbad Studio, with the intention of releasing a new LP of experimental works. As Pram, the group conducted workshops in sound art and field recording, producing as yet unreleased work that was performed live in 2016. Now working as a semi-instrumental project, with an increased interest in film and site-specific work, the band performed at the Imaginary Musics festival in Switzerland in May 2017 (playing an audio-visual "Music for Kopfkino" set) and at a combined sound-art installation and concert ('Under the Blossom That Hangs On The Bough') in Birmingham's Martineau Gardens as part of the for-Wards project and festival for June 2017. Return to album releases In 2018 Pram released a new album, Across the Meridian, on Domino Records (with Sam Owen now handling vocals). The album was launched at a Club Integrale Midlands concert at the Edge, on 20 July 2018, followed by concerts at The Lexington, London, on 22 July and the Soup Kitchen, Manchester, on 26 July (with Fliss Kitson of The Nightingales playing drums). During 2019 the band were working on further editing and arranging for the 2012 Klangbad Studio session recordings. Work as remixers Pram have remixed LFO and the Aphex Twin for the Warp Records 10th anniversary compilation. They have also remixed a