Relentless, Hammer driving, Punk banger.  This one'll drill right through your head!

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She had a feeling. 
Experimental narratives: Arts Council funded project.

Experimental Narratives

I'm Not A Man

Arts Council Funded Project: In The Footsteps of Ravilious. The Port at Newhaven, East Sussex

No I Couldn't

Arts Council funded project: In the footsteps of Ravilious

Tracks of her Tears

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This song is based on the virtuoso keyboard and synth talents of Dave Acres, who wrote most of the original music - recorded back in 1985, with me playing bass. I've re-arranged his tune a little, and added a drum track that I dragged off the internet and re-adjusted. The lyrics and vocals are by me, written in 2017, and recorded at home in St Leonards-on-sea. There's also a French synthetic voice at the beginning that warns listeners of a deja vu experience ahead! Added to this, I did a short virtual(online) keyboard solo around the middle of the song, and the spirit of Mark Branch appears, saying the word "yowzah"!!

The Principles behind the Zonnitronix recording...

- In 1988  I composed a song called 'Computerised Doom' that was popular with those who listened to it and which I have re-visited on a couple of occasions since. The songs I'm working on now are like an update, 30 years later, saying: 'this is the state of the world now'. The songs I have created together form an expression of the bewilderment felt at the current crazy state of the world.

- I'm using recordings made at various points during the past 30 years, supplementing them with my contemporary vocals and instrumentation - a bit like Cliff Richard's duet with the late Elvis Presley. So the sound is contemporary, though I am essentially duetting with elements of my past self. The main reason for this is mainly as a result of currently (and for the foreseeable future) being less able than I was previously to play instruments such as the guitar or drums, and thus I have chosen the medium of electronic music, and the use of samples, to explore the possibilities of the new compositional world available to me. This process enables me to still produce music in a similar style to before, rather like when Rick Allen (from Def Leppard) adapted his drum technique after losing his left arm.

- In the past few years I have taken up yoga, and am using the relaxation and meditation gained from this activity to influence the music and lyrics (see especially the song 'Mystery Of The Universe', rather like David Lynch uses transcendental meditation to affect his films.   

- I reckon Globalisation and the utilisation of the internet are blending languages and music of other countries/cultures, giving them as much a place in contemporary British music as the English language and 'traditional' British music does. Recently I started learning the Shehnai and Pungi/Been, and have been adopting these into contemporary music - in effect creating a post-modern and/or post-digital sound, like Afro-Celt Soundsystem, M.I.A., etc.

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