Source:Samples

Source:Samples

Saint Patty's in Istanbul

kind of a ghostly field of Irish on an Egyptian Oud in some kind of hybrid tuning.

Recorded for Sound In, 17/03/17 Flute, EHX Stereo Memory Man

Recorded for Sound In, 17/03/17 Flute, EHX Stereo Memory Man

Recorded for Sound In, 17/03/17 Flute, EHX Stereo Memory Man

6 string bass solo

A Dream Within A Dream by Midnight Media. Composed, arranged, performed, recorded and produced by Richard Kent. The primary influences on the music are the atmospheric and ambient soundscapes of Tangerine Dream, King Crimson, Pink Floyd and…

This song doesn't really go anywhere but that maybe fits the lyrics. There are some nice guitarparts. I added a guitar, percussion and changed the drums in march for the new version.

Lyrically it's about this dream to live another kind of life as in Tim Ferriss' book. The last three years I had managed to live on working in a bar in the weekends, being a guinea pig for medical tests, travelling the world as an On Board Courier…

The lyrics are pretty bad and I had to record the second guitar through an ampsim late in the evening of the 28th. So I rerecorded that part in march and changed the drums slightly. This is where the record starts to fall apart a bit.

I had a vague idea to write a lyric about Julian Assange's daily life in the Ecuadorian Embassy; no sun, being confined to a small office-space... I didn't get round to it so I added some lame Mellotron (IK Sampletron) parts and called it finished.

The idea of this was to combine Otis Redding's Sitting on the Dock of Bay with the perspective of a refugee (or of myself as a refugee) sitting in some port trying to flee to a better life. Though not all lines are perfect I'm quite happy with…