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Written, Arranged, Produced by Ella & Florian Zwietnig
Mixed by Jochen Schmalbach
Mastered by Eroc 
Artwork by Ella Zwietnig
Graphic Design by Magdalena Bichler

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UMA - Vanity

from The Hope of Better Weather EP

piano - Michael Price

recorded July 17th, 2012 at Snap Studios, London


1. Breaking The Horizon

This is a track from the "Turning Witch EP," released April 22 on Montross Music. It was recorded with Alan Weatherhead (Sparklehorse, Denali) in Virginia and Denver, and mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri (The Sight Below, Orcas).
Available for purchase at mombi.bandcamp.com or Itunes, Spotify etc.


Buy on Bandcamp

Rain Schadow

it's a piece about farewell...
...hope you enjoy

Cover photo from the amazing SUNG SOO LEE: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tjoy7/

Gare du Nord

Guitarist Nicholas Tyson (Gentleman’s Dub Club, XOA) makes his solo debut with Ascent, out October 31, 2025 on Outervisions. Inspired by the landscapes of Provence, the album blends jazz, classical, and folk into a deeply personal and cinematic sound.

Ascent

Green Shelter

La fin de la visite

free keyboard improvisation of yesterday 15.10.2025, sax impro added today the 16th

Sad songs

Charlie Siem - Vaughn Williams - The Lark Ascending

Contribution to Piano Day 2017 by Jakob Lindhagen, through Feeder Recordings.

Jakob Lindhagen - Veiled

Here is a collaboration with a lovely old friend Liz Monument. Liz and I both studied music at Bretton Hall in Yorkshire a few years ago. Those of you who have had the chance to do something like that will know that the friendships you make there go beyond the social...you share creativity with your classmates and for me, I always keep a cozy seat in my heart for anyone with whom I make good music. Back then, Liz was a fantastic classical guitarist, but since then she has widened her range to encompass many more styles and stringed instruments....including the sparkling harp that features here alongside the guitar. A couple of years ago we renewed friendship via facebook and this year we're making music again via soundcloud. Please listen to more of Liz's beautiful playing at http://soundcloud.com/lizmonument

Here I play the Uillean Pipes and Low Whistle. I absolutely adore the pipes, but they also frustrate me as I don't think I'm physically cut out to play them to the standard I'd like to. But now and then I give them a day out. If by any chance you like the sound here, please do me the favour of going to youtube and checking out what REAL pipers can do, like Paddy Keenan, Cillian Vallely and Davy Spillane.

Liz's harp provides a perfect setting here for Louis MacNeice's amazing poem The Strand. The harp's chords lap like waves on the poet's beach. I have a strong identification with this poem; my father was also a Northern Irish clergyman who “kept something in him solitary and wild”. The last quality time I spent with my father was a wordless walk on such an Irish strand. The image attached to the song is a washed out old slide I took that very winter afternoon....'white Tintoretto clouds' behind Slieve Donard, towering above the beach at Newcastle, County Down. All that's missing is the 'square black figure' beyond the viewfinder to the left. 

The Strand

by Louis MacNeice

White Tintoretto clouds beneath my naked feet,
This mirror of wet sand imputes a lasting mood
To island truancies; my steps repeat

Someone’s who now has left such strands for good
Carrying his boots and paddling like a child,
A square black figure whom the horizon understood -

My father. Who for all his responsibly compiled
Account books of a devout, precise routine
Kept something in him solitary and wild,

So loved the Western sea and no tree’s green
Fulfilled him like these contours of Slievemore
Menaun and Croghaun and the bogs between.

Sixty-odd years behind him and twelve before,
Eyeing the flange of steel in the turning belt of brine
It was sixteen years ago he walked this shore

And the mirror caught his shape which catches mine
But then as now the floor-mop of the foam
Blotted the bright reflections - and no sign

Remains of face or feet when visitors have gone home.

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The Strand, Dave McKeown with Liz Monument

I did this in one take, recording on Audacity. My intention was to just record it and play with it to see what I could change, I ended up just making a few mistakes and I didn't know what to do to fix them.

I should really go to a recording studio and hire people that know what they are doing.

Bohemian Rhapsody - Classical Guitar

I am a working full-time musician, teaching, performing, composing, recording and arranging, and my gigs in the last few years have included jazz combo, big band jazz, folk, Irish traditional, rock, soul, latin, klezmer, funk, orchestral, chamber, minimal techno, musical theatre and more, so, safe to say, I’ll have a go at anything. 

I'm a firm believer in demolishing boundaries between genres, cultures, languages and ultimately people, and Soundcloud is a terrific place where all this can happen.