This track was created to be part of my "Clutha Project", reflecting on memories of my childhood and connections with the River Clyde. My parents went over to the Isle of Cumbrae to visit my grandparents in Millport, many years ago and I was living in London at the time.  After they got home they rang me to say they had been privileged to see a really strong display of Aurora Borealis from Millport, which was a bit unusual as normally you need to be further north to see these. They were really impressed by what they had seen and I sensed they had shared a moment of awe and wonderment together. Sadly I have never seen these lights myself other than on film or video. So I has happy for them but also slightly jealous. This track tries to reflect the ethereal wonder of these beautiful lights and the sense of awe my parents felt from what they had seen that night. There's a video at : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exy6xVvY5U0, if you are interested.... :)

(Clutha Project) Aurora over Millport

(Clutha Project) Aurora Over Millport

Four tunes with a loose connection to Thomas Hardy: A Rosebud In June/Through Bushes & Briars/Dribbles Of Brandy/The Snow That Melts The Soonest. All four are used in film adaptations of Hardy's stories but are my interpretations. Played on a D/G Martin O'Connor Saltarelle Nuage diatonic accordion.

A Wessex Set

There Is A Better Place

Track made exclusively with Crowhill company's Pocket Strings Library as per the challenge. 

No additional effects or plugin used
Made in a *very* short time ;D and had a lot of fun doing so! First go at a 'scary' vibe.

Pocket String is an affordable, very well built little jewel. It is highly customizable, from cinematic sound to gritty sound design.

Daemonic Whispers

Daemonic Whispers - Crow Hill Company's Pocket Strings Composing Challenge

Challenge - to compose a track using only the Crow Hill Pocket Strings library, one day turnaround.  Library has amazing shorts and pizz, sweeping longs, and a really intuitive GUI which allows you to blend as needed great string samples, and also two vintage string synths, with in-library effects.  Chose this genre to make something different to my usual style in the spirit of a challenge, but also make the best of those cracking pizz and shorts and see if I could use them as a creative stand-in for brass stabs and punchy bass.  Really brilliant library at the price point, I had lots of fun!  Thanks for listening!

Rachel Howie Pocket Strings Challenge Soundcloud

https://youtu.be/c--TU69LxkU

Made entirely from stringed instruments, using the updated Crow Hill Company Glass Strings, this is one of the most vulnerable pieces I’ve put together.

It’s for moments when words fall short. Music to sit with when you feel quiet, overwhelmed, or just need space. Like the mirror it’s named after, it reflects something back - stillness, sadness, or whatever’s been waiting to surface.

I wanted each note to feel like it was disappearing into the distance. Like how a mirror creates a sense of space - not actual space, but reflected space. That illusion, that gentle stretching of reality, is what this track leans into.

I hope you enjoy it!

The Looking Glass

Original song by Nick Drake

Lyrics:

When I was young, younger than before
I never saw the truth hanging from the door
And now I’m older see it face to face
And now I’m older gotta get up, clean the place

And I was green, greener than the hill
Where flowers grew and sun shone still
Now I’m darker than the deepest sea
Just hand me down, give me a place to be

And I was strong, strong in the sun
I thought I’d see when day was done
Now I’m weaker than the palest blue
Oh, so weak in this need for you

Place to Be (live acoustic cover, orig. song by Nick Drake)

Tom's piano melodies are so inspirational, not just to me (Mark) but also to Jussi, Georg and Boon. The energy of this piece carried us all off on a wonderful journey. We hope you enjoy the joyful enthusiasm that Tom initiated. Tom also gave me the key line, 'My Way Through' and I had to run with it as it made so much sense with this uplifting and hopeful music. Thanks for listening.

Tom Regnier -  @tom-r-gnier Music composition, piano and other instrumentation
Jussi Welin - @juswel First guitar and guitar arrangement
Georg Boehme - @georg-boehme Horns and horn arrangement
Boon Suzuki - @boon-suzuki Final guitar and guitar arrangement
Mark Bennett - Vocals and lyrics

Wherever you’re bound you know I’ll, 
Make my way through 
Sure may take a little while
 But I’ll make my way through

Wherever I’m bound I know I’ll,
 Make my way through
 It may take a longer while 
Till I make my way through

Wherever you’re bound,
…You’re bound
I know that I’m bound, yeah!

When I get there you know I’ll
Make my way through
Sure may need a broader smile
But I’ll make my way through.

Desamor - Tom Régnier, Jussi Welin, Boon Suzuki & Mark J Bennett

1983……….and then there was Post-Punk - 4AD were rocking it with Cocteau Twins, John McGeogh left Siouxsie and the Banshees and was replaced by Robert Smith moonlighting from The Cure, and Peter Hook was redefining the bass (with Joy Division and New Order) - and I turned 20 and started writing songs……..

The 1983

Here's track 7 from the album "Congeries," featuring Marty Lucas on piano. 
Mixed and mastered by Jon Huxtable.

Lyrics:
Whispers 
The wind on the plains 
Restless 
The eternal remains 

They all will rise up at the omen 
Snow-covered kings, yearly frozen 
Sprung from the hills like new children 

From the stone-laden tombs long forgotten 
Clad in a cold fallen cotton, 
They’ll emerge to the fields that they fought in

Congeries

Whispers with Marty Lucas

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(Clutha Project) Aurora Over Millport

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