"stolen from wikepidia" so it can't be true...

Male selkies are described as being very handsome in their human form, and having great seductive powers over human women. They typically seek those who are dissatisfied with their life, such as married women waiting for their fishermen husbands. If a woman wishes to make contact with a selkie male, she must shed seven tears into the sea. If a man steals a female selkie's skin she is in his power and is forced to become his wife. Female selkies are said to make excellent wives, but because their true home is the sea, they will often be seen gazing longingly at the ocean. If she finds her skin she will immediately return to her true home, and sometimes to her selkie husband, in the sea. Sometimes, a selkie maiden is taken as a wife by a human man and she has several children by him. In these stories, it is one of her children who discovers her sealskin (often unwitting of its significance) and she soon returns to the sea. The selkie woman usually avoids seeing her human husband again but is sometimes shown visiting her children and playing with them in the waves.

Stories concerning selkies are generally romantic tragedies. Sometimes the human will not know that their lover is a selkie, and wakes to find them gone. In other stories the human will hide the selkie's skin, thus preventing it from returning to its seal form. A selkie can only make contact with one human for a short amount of time before they must return to the sea. They are unable to make contact with that human again for seven years, unless the human steals their selkie skin and hides it or burns it.

Selkie

Essentially piano based though extended by use of strings. Guess quite film like in terms of sound though.

Sunday Night

Very short ostinato style composition. Infinite loop is stretching the truth somewhat as far as titles go as lets be honest it's not really very long.

Infinite Loop

In A Field In England

Decided to revisit and record keys as midi so I can tweak sound if I need and also before I forget what I actually played

Modern As Tomorrow

Lunchtime experiment in writing. Basically a friend said he thought that when I used guitar I concentrated more on the lyrics but on piano more on the melody as it's my instrument.  Not entirely sure and think the songs a bit of a "throwaway" but here it is anyway!

Get It On

Another experiment writing on piano rather than guitar. 
Falsetto on the voice is needed just would rather I had the voice of Tom Waits or the "miserable" chap from Radiohead!  Think I can live with it for now....until I can afford a real mellotron.

Butterfly

Very little "throwaway" song from last summer and just wish I'd played it a tad faster...oh well

Claire De Lune

One shot improvisation on piano and then added a very quiet arpeggiator to thicken it out a little and doubled some of the melody with a synth. Pretty generic of my style I think but it is what it is and didn't take a lot of thought!

Still Waters Run Deep

Little feel good summer track for hazy days, lunchtime Pimm's and general summer nonsense.

Little Things

Written over an evening looking out to sea.  Made me think back to the times when growing up in Wales we picked up music from Ireland and used to listen to this as well as obvious other things....

Electricity

Flapper style song written around valentines day in 2013.

Come And Find Me  Lover Boy

Same track as "Wet Weds" except I remembered a bit more of it!  Sounds a tad like a film track from the era of Betty Blue hence the title and mega reverb.  Strings a bit too loud and will perhaps try replacing with proper 80's style synth strings another day.

01 Betty ain't Blue

Gentle, celtic tinged short instrumental piece

Lullaby

Still days and ocean waves

Chas 'n' Dave style mockney christmas song from ages ago.  ASBO was and possibly is an anti social behaviour order.  

Santa's Got An ASBO

Re working of well known carol - think you got that though

Away In A Manger

Camcorder sound from the song "A life less ordinary" which featured in a little show called Surfwax - a tale of life, love and weeing in your wetsuit

A Life Less Ordinary - Eve - Surfwax

New Years type song.  This is the cast of 1000's version including those who mimed and recorded a long time ago.

Obviously features a cringeworthy pastiche of a certain tune in the intro but it's that time of year again.

Again Big Derek on the whistle, guitar as well as of course giving everyone beard envy.

Afore ye Go - everybody

Fun little track I'd forgotten about recorded live mistakes and all.  

Short but sweet and hope you agree

Nil - written for brief

Playing around with the Spitfire Audio felt piano and getting into the felt piano groove!   Such a relaxed and lovely sound

Still

Short piece composed for "Bird Box"  

To hear track with ambient sound etc follow youtube link 

https://youtu.be/o-bCAD4TWwE

David Griffiths

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