This is the song that sparked the whole album

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

Written for Novembers Record Every Month project. I was feeling frustrated about COP 26 in Glasgow and our joint failure to act on climate change, despite the visible effects around the world and here in my own city.

I got nothing. Insert some random post-apocalyptic sci-fi narrative here, involving Speak And Spells achieving sentience and taking over the world, only to be thwarted by the Amish. Alternatively, "Based On A True Story" something something.

V1 Like a first day sketch like a homeless wretch Ignored then just cast aside Any crumb will do To help see me through To conquer and then divide C I’m pursued by different wolves Now I've left the words They are just salesman with…

well never go back to back come on yer!

Having put together an orchestral version of this amazing song, the haunting composition by Michael Kiwanuka (theme from Big Little Lies, Sky Atlantic) here is my take on a conventional band arrangement, and featuring the lovely voice of my friend…

Source: Keyboard, Samples

Trying out the new keyboard thanks for listening We all dream with our eyes closed Blind to where our dreams can go Never to know what truly comes to us Under that midnight glow Under that midnight glow Belief becomes from dream That…

Reflective indigo groove with some summer strings & sensual sax. Written with John French https://edenshard.bandcamp.com/album/the-cobblepot-engine

Parameters are still in flux, so I couldn't exactly recreate it. Basically, there's no attack or delay on the fundamental, giving it a percussive attack. A logarithmic amount of delay and attack on the harmonics, so they swell in brightness…

Spanish classical motif I did for a webseries

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!