Don't Ever Hide Your Face

Welcome to my Soundcloud Page. I am a songwriter based in St Helens, a town in the Northwest of the UK.
You will find songs in a singer-songwriterly vein, written and recorded by me, taking in a range of musical genres,  alt/indie rock songs recorded by The (Now Legendary) Maybees in the 1990s, some classical sounding music by The Lucem Symphonia, as well as banging EDM/electronic tunes by Casaubon and a few mixes of a collaboration with Bentcousin,. Unknown Unknown is another alias I have used for one release and Firenze Anemones is a new project. Most recently, I have collaborated with Massachusetts composer Betsy Breitborde on The Ghosts of Christmas Past.
Whether it's plainly a demo or a painstakingly mastered recording, I hope you enjoy what you hear. Please leave comments and don't be afraid to get in touch, I am always interested in getting feedback and connecting with other lovers of music. If you want to download anything, many of the finished recordings are available on Bandcamp and an increasing number are on all of the usual digital platforms. If you use other platforms, you can find music from me (and some others) there under the names:
Terry Naylor
Casaubon
The Lucem Symphonia
Firenze Anemones
Unknown Unknown
Bentcousin Terry
Atlantic Zipwire


Happy listening!

Lamentablemente no puedo seguir a màs artistas, no es porque me crea estrella.

Musician/Singer/Songwriter - Indie rock and 90’s inspired Alt Rock. Check out my fourth album Prison of Our Making. Thanks for listening

mp3hugger is one of the original indie music blogs, established in 2005 and based off the coast of Ireland.

"It's like a mental breakdown you can dance to." - Mike Andrelcyk (FLY magazine)

"Stereoma’s new material is loud, pissed-off rock — and rightly so." -Shane Graybill (No Smoking Media)
 
STEREOMA has returned with a full length album rife with frenzied, dark and paranoid themes of isolation, heartbreak, death and rebirth. Especially on This City is Death, Tell Me No, Movement and Just As Well.

Taking a full year to write, record and produce, the album sees Nick Curran backed by a highly talented group of friends as his band mates. Founding band member Nick Curran (vocals, guitar, synth, and songwriter) has been performing with Brad Topping(guitar, synth) since childhood, and most recently with friends Josh Wood (bass) and Caleb Lewis (drums). As founding members of bands like Selah.Selah and Missing Pilots, they have shared the stage with such acts as Titus Andronicus, Andrew W.K., Deer Hunter, Don Caballero, Mates of State - just to name a few. 

For the most part it was a full band effort with only a few tracks being performed solely by Curran - a distant move from his previous work as STEREOMA. The lyrics are dense, angry and accusatory, as if something has gone terrible awry in Curran's life. When the album is at its lightest (The Smallest Spaces, Not The One), it still manages to espouse a schizoid bent.
Imagine Brian Wilson's personality getting a lift from a beer spiked with Arcade Fire, Weezer, Wilco, and U2. Hailing from  Lancaster, Pennsylvania, this is what STEREOMA (pronounced "stair-ee-OH-ma") offers.

 Standout tracks include: This City is Death, Tell Me No, The Smallest Spaces, and the title track, Movement but all are very solid tracks worthy of air time.

To stay up-to-date with the details, check out linktr.ee/stereoma 


B. Hamilton is songwriter Ryan Christopher Parks and drummer Raj Kumar Ojha (Once and Future Band). They cut their teeth in the warehouse days of Oakland around 2010 and recorded ramshackle records in flophouse attics, former army barracks turned Mills College noise musician housing, and their rehearsal space in Jack London Square that looks like an early 80’s accounting office, and a set from one of the “Saw” movies. 
 
Existing before and after tech created complete chaos in Oakland is the subject of a number of their songs. Other songs are about other things. Like cancer, John Wayne, and buying lottery tickets after church.
 
2024’s “The Freest Speech Ever Attempted Without Disintegrating” is about Elon Musk, kind of. 
 
“I tried to write a bunch of stuff about him, but ended up writing about the same loneliness and lack of connection that everyone has experienced at some point in their lives,” said Parks. “It’s the same loneliness that humanity might be leaning into as we go toward whatever the future is.”
 
I wrote this entire bio like you can't tell it's me writing it. I even referred to myself as "Parks," in the last paragraph like I'm a Naval whistleblower on "60 Minutes." Writing these things is the goddamn worst. Alright, have a good day.

NOTICE: I DO NOT PAY FOR PROMOTION. EVER.

SPOTLIGHT: Sexagenarian Volume VI is now complete after the addition of its twelfth tarck, "where once...". Check out the other five (5!) volumes of Sexagenarian as well. 

BIO: I started writing songs in high school (1969-1973!) and I've pretty much never stopped. These are mostly solo recording projects (my brother, Fog City Fogey, contributes sometimes).  I don't do much self-promotion, not a fan of Repost Exchange etc, so all of you who find this page and like a song or two - you are truly appreciated!