Sunshine fill my soul Let the blues be the first to go Sunshine can’t complain If life shows us a little rain Chorus Sunshine through the window At first morning’s light All the stars fade away When sunshine gets so bright When sunshine…

This is the song that sparked the whole album

Sitting at my keyboard one day and plugged in some canned drums & started playing the bass line & these are the words & tune that came to me

Keep me close and afraid Keep me wandering for days Keep me exactly the same Keep me docile and tired Keep me angsty and wired Keep me faking the pain Keep me loose and contained Keep me close and afraid Keep me wandering for days…

[Hello?] (ring) [Hello?] (ring) ---- Samples (from Freesound) * 219776_madamvicious_tell-my-wife-hello * 456433__mycompasstv__old-rotary-phone-ringing-western-electric-bell-500-phone

Just straight-up acoustic guitar, with no trickery. Submitted to Sound-In Christmas event 23-30/12/2021.

Guess this could classed as topical .....

Lebenslinie (Life Line) Life, if you look back at your own one, or at the stories of others, often seems to be presented as an ornate line. This line is trying to branch out, but since a person is indivisible, that lifeline is always one, but…

Master Version 2 Instincts- which were the memories of his ancestors become habits Full audio available on Bandcamp Video available on Instagram and YouTube

Plucking out a soothing little tune in Em on my little lyre harp. Recorded on my phone.

Now a decade old, I thought I would revisit this mix again. I have done this a few times as I continue to learn the craft. I thought it would be a good exercise to undertake as a start thinking about writing again for the next record.

Meditative three-part arctic ambient suite, with lots of droning and bells.

It's a full Strawberry Moon.

Yet another from the very creative period in the summer of 2016... I recall I had time on my hands! The original bass track was done on my Fender Jazz 'Geddy Lee' and sounded great. Sadly, several versions of Logic Pro later resulted in the file…

When you C reach the Em point When it’s F all in the rear view C mirror And Am reflection is your G only point of C view G You C feel it Em inside When it F becomes so C clear There’s Am nothing that G you can C do F Hold on to G memories…

So the lyrics come from another age, but they sounded so relevant to the recent lockdown world, that I decided to stitch them into a completely different track. So, there ya go!

Ambient acoustic guitar looping..DADGCC tuning

i recorded three one-minute takes and played them on top of each other title translates to "vulgar display of power"

Don't you forget to feed the machine It's why you're here You're here to serve not to be seen You are replaceable You won't be missed Some day it will be as if you Never did exist You're here to feel A little joy You're here to…

as the title says

For love and lovers

(A song from a parent to a child) You get yourself a brand new lifetime I tried to give you a compass and a map Nothing in life feels so good as your learner’s permit Something that makes you so happy Maybe it shouldn’t be allowed You…

Whistling a tune, I walk up to the house and meet a cat on the doorstep. We are going to have supper, and at this time a blizzard begins. April. 05.04.2021, live recording.

This is a long one - a big old late night jam on just about every keyboard/synth that I own. This one goes from ambient to aggressive to a soft exit.

instrumental

Combination of my track As the Clouds Roll Away with Struk String Rambul by Coelocanth, both of which were submitted to Sound-In (as was this) for 4-11/3/2021. No alteration was made to either track before or after combining.

We decided to give the kids an outlet that wasn’t pandemic or lockdown based this February, and made an album as a family for the RPM Challenge 2021. It was just the most precious, funny, brilliant month.

Another one where the riff came first, on the last day of RPM 2020 actually. Before all the craziness struck. I thought to myself "Oh self! That's a good riff! I will need to revisit it next year for RPM 2021." So I did. It also has a call-back…

Wrote and recorded in roughly an hour just before dawn last day of Feb (the 4:00 AM mentioned in the lyric)