**Song-writing Demo for FAWM 2022** Song number 1 Written Sunday 6th February 2022 **** OK, this is a bit of a departure for me - posting songwriting demos. This is a one mic recording made this morning in the living room, touch of reverbs…

One of the household's fave TV theme tunes....so evocative....I have taken the main theme, tweaked and extended.......

Something different again...using only free sample libraries, mostly from the amazing Pianobook community, I imagined a trailer or theme music for a Scandinavian dark crime thriller series....

Something different again...using only free sample libraries, mostly from the amazing Pianobook community, I imagined a trailer or theme music for a Scandinavian dark crime thriller series....

Aaaaaaar - har har me hearties!! A swashbuckling adventure on the high seas....!! The BBC Symphony Orchestra to the fore again....such a pleasure to compose with.....

Particularly following a very recent piece, Nordic Noir, I may have slipped into movie/TV/Game trailer mode!!! So here is a piece featuring solo violin that has been titled An Awakening...and listeners can then put their own imagination to work…

Having put together an orchestral version of this amazing song, the haunting composition by Michael Kiwanuka (theme from Big Little Lies, Sky Atlantic) here is my take on a conventional band arrangement, and featuring the lovely voice of my friend…

Lockdown 2020. This was a suggestion by our friend Paul Matthews (check out his page: https://alonetone.com/IlshamOrchestrate ) Paul performed the piano and programmed the drums, strings and guitar tracks. Billy picked up the bass for the…

(Remastered 22/10/2021) And this is the last of the little threesome of In Your Hands, Little Thing, and this one, When I Try To Be Me. It's in the key of 4th fret and was written just over a month later than the other two, on 19th March…

(Remastered 22/10/2021) And here's another song from 1994, with a sparkling new "Andrew Russe Band" arrangement fresh from the broom-cupboard. Like most of my songs, it was written with an acoustic guitar, a pen, and an A4 pad. The ones…