Well, about six months ago, I uploaded a rough study called "Songwriting Day One." I wasn't sure where the song would go, but words came in January just in time for this year's RPM album... And before I forget... Curse you Bm!!! GENEVIEVE…

Almost finished... Headphones and volume knobs required! Noah and the Guardians of the Sky is a Wildgeas Sci-Fi Ambient project.

I used a clip of the English version of greetings recorded on the gold disk on board Voyager 1. Thanks NASA/JPL Headphones and volume knobs required! Noah and the Guardians of the Sky is a Wildgeas Sci-Fi Ambient project.

Finished my RPM CD. Headphones and volume knobs required! Noah and the Guardians of the Sky is a Wildgeas Sci-Fi Ambient project.

One more to go and I'm slapping them together. This is 3 layered drum loops. Some dupes and some play along. I've managed to grow a huge beard this RPM. I think I'm starting to look like Gandolf. :)

rpm 2011 Like to feel the falling rain Shed my brittle skin Maybe hard enough to face tomorrow Find out soon enough, find out soon enough And the river is clean enough to touch And it washes away the bitterness Cleaner than the falling snow Melting…

RPM 2011 It's a song where we can sing along All the day and all the night Shoot the breeze if you can't sing it right Dance away now melody, dance away now It's the way to fail more gracefully See me jump up and fall to pieces It's sad…

RPM 2011 So wide awake the hands are still Too tired to keep them silent It barely pokes above the surface It hardly registers among the crowd So long and waves the farwell We’d better tell the authorities Goodbyes are so beautiful Disappear…

RPM 2011 Seasons start to change without much worry Ordinary days no reason to remain The clouds will force the rain realize its glory Nothing keeps us sane better start to hurry Slow monkey cabin fever Free clinic dirty needle They've…

RPM 2011 Used to feel the same as me So warm inside Used to care too much to see The other side You’re so far outside the lines Your shapes distorted, undefined Your color choices too A wash and blurry, through and through Visualize, love saves…

RPM 2011 You say the world is too complicated You say close your eyes forget it all Nobody sold me a bridge in the desert Nobody remembers with our eyes closed tight You say somedays just a point of view You say someones not much different Nobody…

RPM 2011 No explanations left to give apologies over She wanted more than the story, but nobody told her I hear the insane are hardly worth the medication But she'd like the story just the same, for when she gets older It's not the end…

RPM 2011 I sail northward against the wind My hope erased by the wages of sin I have no way to break the ice I’m frozen with chains of tomorrow I have no fear of getting through The feelings I lost without starting It’s our little game not…

RPM 2011 Wait for the room to focus Feeling around for closure The whiteness of my skin The pale reflecting eyes The beaty of total darkness Move to the door and open Room after room of sorrow Breathing through your mouth Flooding from your eyes…

Another basement practice song as you can tell by the initial hiss. Mostly beautiful, kind of self-indulgent and a little longish in parts. I also don't remember what this one is called.

A nice solid punchy classic Prozac offering. Love the bass on this song. Also from the basement.

Inspired by our good friend Geir Alfsen , who wrote a song titled Oil , this highlights the plight of seabirds trapped in the recent oil spillages

A song about my wife. Recorded 2005. I'd just taught myself how to play piano (badly). I'd always wanted to be Freddie Mercury when I was younger... still got a bit of a ways to go. **** **Now It's Done - A A J Russe** I said it…

Electric blues. Recorded 2007. I was learning how to use my DAW and trying to figure out how a one-man-band could get to sound like a bunch of old bluesers in a sweaty bar... ***** **Rabbit Boy - A A J Russe** Well she don't mind crying…

Acoustic blues. Recorded in 2005. I was trying to record something else, can't remember what, and the missus was going out. She had cyclist Lance Armstong's book, or was talking about it. Sounded like a great title for a song as well as his book…

A pop-rock thingy recorded in 2006. Can't remember too much about it except that it was a new song then, I spent an inordinate amount of time on the lyrics and arrangement, and wasn't that happy with it when I was done(!). I quite like it now…

This is an oldie. Recorded in 2005. It was the first recording I finished on a DAW, but I'd played it a lot in the last band I was in (around the turn of the century). I think it was written in the mid 90s. It's about one of the casualties of…

Rock instrumental. Recorded Christmas 2008. I'd struggled with a DAW. I'd stopped recording. And then my lovely wife got me a Boss MBR for Christmas. I thought this little thing the size of a fag-packet would be a nice "scratch-pad" songwriting…

A cover of Larry Wallis's fine ditty (it's always been one of my favourite Dr Feelgood songs). This was my second recording with my Boss MBR, recorded early 2009. It confirmed for me that I was a "standalone recorder" kind of guy, and there was…

a season in hell by rimbaud,sampled and signal-processed,set to music by wordless poem,composed on the oland MC 505 groovebox.

this is the extended version of lifeless c where lifeless c is a cut out of lifeless b probably will not be a lifeless a as that the lifeless a source has about and hour extra recorded that would need to be considered .. maybe with a different…

Breakbeat

a bit smaller in length, a bit more up lifting, at least it makes me feel like lifting my arms up into the air when i listen... WN is a dialogue between two sides, so i suppose this is the section where the angles get their say,,,, dedicated to…

One strike and you are out.

Acoustic guitar instrumental.

Life is so much better with Jesus in it.

Written about 26 years ago, re-recorded for RPM.

Blues Rock with a twist. Wouldn't mind some production pointers on this one.

Kind of a dark song. Acoustic guitar and vox with a weird synth part.

Another Apple Garage Band session. I thought this had a little bit of a Joe Satriani feel to it so called it Satcheroni. :) I'm nowhere near the level of the guy, but he is an influence. Just me plugged in to the laptop again, using the Garageband…

Part spoken word, part electronica, part art-rock, but just plain weird!