This track was composed in response to a challenge from the Crow Hill Company to create a piece of music in whatever style was personal to the composer, but using only the 6 free instruments currently available in Crow Hill's Vaults Beta collection, those being:
Drum studio; Chorus synth; Attic Grand; R + D strings; Celest-a-Tone; Shimmer Guitar.

Anyone who knows my previous compositions will realise that I have a wide musical taste and don't stick to any one genre. However, as I have been working on tracks under the "Clutha Project"  heading for a while now, I decided to re-visit a theme already used twice in that collection, namely "Lichen & Rust". These tracks are all linked to my childhood memories and family connections in the area of the River Clyde in Scotland; trying to capture the essence of them before they (and my memories) fade away.

There is a video to go with this track: https://youtu.be/dLP-CKVlxtc

The images used in this video are all stock images and none (as far as I know) link directly to the Clyde, but the decline and fall of the old industrial ports and shipbuilding yards is much the same no matter which country you take the images in. The feel of something lost, something departed, or something slowly ebbing away is the same in any language.

Enlimila - Lichen & Rust Reprise (Clutha Project)

An entry for the July 2025 Crow Hill composing challenge - Pocket Strings.

The title is borrowed from Philip Larkin's "An Arundel Tomb"

Our almost-instinct almost true

There Is A Better Place

Crow Hill Composing Challenge using Pocket Strings

Pocket of Infinity_Alistair McGrann_LHZ Collective

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

Crow Hill Challenge - Pocket Strings

For the Crowhill composer challenge July 25. Using only their pocket strings plugin.

Time's Up! - Crow Hill Composer Challenge - July 2025

PocketStrings.Challenge.Crowhill.by.David.O.White.07,06.2025 - 01 Start(2)

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

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

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.

My Way Through - Tom Régnier & Friends

This is my latest spill-over page for newer stuff. The older material is at @enlimila and @enlimila-plus

Thanks for looking. :-)

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Enlimila - Lichen & Rust Reprise (Clutha Project)

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