Last year, when the world slowed down, I found myself looking inwards and remembering the past. I see my friendships shift in shape, my relationships ebb and flow, and the ground I’m standing on is moving beneath my feet. This record is an introspective dive, pinpointing the moment I recognised a consistency within me that fights to contradict my life in stasis. Beneath the skin deep layers there is an engine: sometimes idle, but never stalling. This motor propels me with a musical momentum. It compels me to speak my truth, words encircled in melody.

I asked my friend Hannah to draw this concept.

On October 30th, I’ll be releasing a 12 track collection. The music is about 50/50 unreleased and remastered versions singles I’ve published over the last year or so. One song is totally re-recorded to feature the beautiful singing of my good talented friend Sanja Cin.  

The process of recording this music is much indebted to a number of longterm collaborating partners:

Firstly, all of the drums and percussion instruments that you hear were lent to me freely by Aidan Poland. Without unrestricted access to his beautiful drum kit, I never could have captured these rhythms.

All of the keyboards and synthesised FX were produced using equipment loaned to me by Matt G. With the exception of tinkering in humble bedroom studio setup, all of the sounds were captured using Matt’s space where I had unfiltered access to microphones, a computer workstation, and most importantly: silence.

The entire record has been subjected to the fine-toothed audio engineering prowess of my good friend David McLaughlin. Dave took my tangled mess of a record and made it shine bright. 

Special thanks also goes to Maria Toase,, who recorded me acoustically when I was somewhat lost, wandering between disbeliefs, and reminded me to believe in myself. The acoustic music from that session form the bones of the track “Killing Time” paired with instrumental layers that I added almost a year later. 

We all walk a path but rarely do we watch where we are going. Without these individuals’ advice and collaboration I would never have achieved what, for me, is a monumental line in the sand along the shores of my dreamworld.

Always Be

Mysterious Waves

The Way That It Is

The Thread Connecting Us

You Were Born To Be a Star

Forever and a Day

Killing Time

Heaven

Never Grown (Into This Heart Of Mine)

Been spending all my time alone,
And I don’t know where to call home,
I look around I’m feeling strange,
Try to alleviate the pain.

Another season is creeping in,
Don’t need a reason to exist,
The fuzzy feeling in my chest lingers on,
I watch it linger on.

I get the feeling you and me,
We don’t wanna say the exact same thing,
It’s something like a whisper what you could not hear, So sing it to me, sister, right into my ear.

I’ve got a promise I can’t keep,
A longer distance inbetween,
I strike a chord and melody,
Between my finger and thumb,
And watch it linger on…

Linger On

I get up really late,
Clean my hands and my face,
I look tired
I feel great because I know that things are happening around me in mysterious ways.

Hear the birds in the trees and the sounds of the street,
All around is something to be,
The world is always singing aloud in a mysterious key.

With the howling of the wind as it's whistling to get in,
Listen in to the sound of the rain,
The world is elementally burning like a candle and flame.

It's burning for you,
It's burning for me,
The time we can take,
Take the time to find a piece of quiet in the place where we can patiently wait.

It is spoken from the moon to the ocean rolling blue,
Make a move,
Take a break,
The world is always crashing around me in mysterious waves.

It's waving to you,
It's waving to me,
The time we can take,
Take the time to find a piece of quiet in the place that we can patiently wait.

It's happening to you,
It's happening to me,
The time we can take,
Take the time to find a piece of quiet in the place that we can patiently wait.

David Shurr

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