I was delighted when Wes Martin gave me the opportunity of adding backing vocals and additional instrumentation to this beautiful acoustic song that he wrote. It felt like a real present! This is what he said about it:

"Riverbed symbolises the ancient, worn, life bringing veins of the landscape. It's an ides of a conversation, a journey with them. Something much bigger in significance and lengevity than us. About floating, finding, and understanding our place."

Riverbed (Wes Martin & HanJan)

I wrote this bio years ago now, but broadly its the same. The main difference is I have relocated in the country and now live with a professional musician and try and toot away at the Clarinet. I learned to read music, which has given me a boost of confidence. Anyway, the old Bio below:

Home recordings of original songs, using the instruments around and about the house, a computer, some new software and cables I trip over. The concertina was a recent addition and dulcimer, accordion, mandolin, piano, the saw and others feature. I'm a little instrument obsessed (I dream about them regularly and probably obsess about them like most women covet shoes) and love the fact that I finally have the facility to record - it's not just my own four walls that hear my musical venturing. A friend has let me borrow a Celtic harp and I've tentatively started a recording with that...so I hope to get quite a diverse range of twanging, plucking, wheezing and strumming up here over time. 

The consequence of an instrument obsession is that I have very few shoes. But that's probably a very good thing.