This one started with the guitar riff. In hindsight, it sounds a bit like Whiskey in the Jar by Thin Lizzy but not close enough so I think I've got away with it! The guitar sounds are from the M guitar plug-ins: Les Paul and Martin acoustic…

Pure Data, 6 oscillators and a patch that grew from an envelope.

I had no melodies or bass lines in my head when I started this one; I just chose a random loop from Apple, put it into a Roland Jupiter 8 and changed the key it was in. It reminds me in parts of a cross between 'Steel River' by Chris Rea and…

An example of 'less is more' - not something normally attributed to my musical sketches! It's very melancholy but benefited from me upping the tempo a bit from its original guise and adding the 'marching drums' bit at the end. Up until that point…

Back in 1985 I was in a band at school - at that time I didn't play an instrument; I was the singer (!) This track was entitled 'Dreaming In Colour' (the music written by band members Giles Hancock and Tim Finch) and I thought it would be fun…

An example of 'less is more' - not something normally attributed to my musical sketches! It's very melancholy but benefited from me upping the tempo a bit from its original guise and adding the 'marching drums' bit at the end. Up until that point…

Well, my entry for RPM 2022 went from LP to (a very short) 4 song EP but this track I think has bags of potential. It was a discarded idea from a few years ago that was lurking in my 'half-baked' Logic folder but something in it ignited my creative…

Back in 1985 I was in a band at school - at that time I didn't play an instrument; I was the singer (!) This track was entitled 'Dreaming In Colour' (the music written by band members Giles Hancock and Tim Finch) and I thought it would be fun…