Track 4 for our 2017 RPM Challenge CD “The Sound and The Sight”.

Track 5 for our 2017 RPM Challenge CD “The Sound and The Sight”.

Track 5 for our 2017 RPM Challenge CD “The Sound and The Sight”.

Track 8 for our 2017 RPM Challenge CD “The Sound and The Sight”.

Track 10 for our 2017 RPM Challenge CD “The Sound and The Sight”.

based on a graphic notation by Dennis Gonzalez

The first song I wrote for RPM2017, and the first one on this 'album'. It was witten on Ukulele with two whole chords (Chord one is a barre at the second fret, and chord two is all of the strings open). Whilst not the most musically sophisticated…

Written/recorded for RPM2017 (album in a month). This one was written on Ukulele, (well that opening section was), and built upon that. The tongue in cheek lyric, is somewhat inspired by a friend who has recently become single, and isn't all…

Written/Recorded for RPM2017 (album in a month). A bit of a weird song, written on guitar (and it shows). A slightly unsettling chord movement which fights the prettiness at points, I think. The backwards guitar and wailing at the end was…

Written/Recorded for RPM2017 (album in a month). I won't pretend this isn't a weird one. The rhythms right with one another, the harmony is unsettling, and towards the end it points towards the next song on the album, in a quite electronic…

Written/Recorded for RPM2017 (album in a month). An instrumental, and quite a bit different to much of more RPM output. This stylistically is an area I sometimes work in when making music for media. The reference points when listening should…

Very quick to write and record. Basically done from start to finish in about an hour and a half (I look at the clock). Despite it's brevity, there's quite a lot going on (especially in how exact I've tried to be with the harmonies, and double…