This song is about 'masculine swagger' as Howard so eloquently put it :)

Adaptation of Just Like Heaven (The Cure)
Recorded by Dirk Koolmees
June 2024

Original song by The Cure.

Just Like Heaven

Noise

Our version of this great song by Portishead, performed live at MGB, October 2024.

Vocals: Christina Uney
Bass: Eric Chiappero
Guitar: Dirk Koolmees
Drums: Stuart Wilson
Recorded by Mark Wesley-Smith (our trusted sound guy)

Glory Box (Portishead) - Live cover by Railyard

Recorded June 2025 using my Scarlett Focusrite. Mixed in Ableton Lite 12.

Dirk Koolmees: guitar, bass, drums

Mobius Progression

Recorded and mixed by Dirk Koolmees - December 2025

Did you hear anything?

This is my first full album project that I did for my degree in music tech. I was marked on songwriting and arrangement (mostly because my production's a little sketchy!). I'm not particularly thrilled with it but my lecturer was and that was all that seemed to matter at the time, haha! I have omitted a few tracks hence the shortness of this set. Any comments and feedback would be greatly appreciated so I can improve and upload more stuff! Cheers x

All songs written, performed, recorded and produced by Christina Uney
Many thanks to James Howard-White for some excellent guitar work on 'Coral', 'Dogs Roll Slow' and 'minor' and for all the help and support throughout!
Also to Lauren South for the excellent album artwork! xx


Cockerel

I have based this Composition on the following piece of text by Sophocles (from ‘Oedipus at Colonus’), which my father inscribed in the front cover of his World War II diary. I believe this is still as relevant to us today as when it was first written:                                              

                    ‘The Earth’s strength fades, 
                  And manhood’s glory fades. 
                  Faith dies, 
                  And unfaith blossoms like a flower. 
                  But who shall find, 
                  In these open streets of men, 
                  Or in the secret places of his own hearts love, 
                  One wind blow true forever.’ 

In this piece I have tried to mirror the meaning and mood of the text, both in its context within the play it is from, and in the more general relevance it has to people of any generation. A gloomy truth pervades the first four lines, but the second half of the text offers hope in the enormity of time and the universe.

Also the material for the piece (which includes the text itself) relates to the Greek ideals of music, set down by Boethius: Musica Mundana, Musica Humana, and Musica Instrumentalis.  

Within this piece I have pursued my interest in transforming one recognisable sound to another, playing on human auditory perception and also using this to travel from the imaginary to the real and back again.

Voicewind was created in the electroacoustic music studios at Bangor in 1998. It won a special prize in the EAR99 competition of Hungarian Radio in 1999.


Voicewind

Another original. Just so you know the subject matter of my songs is never me. So don't worry ;) x

Cockerel

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