A slice of climatological gospel, adapted from the song written by Mann, Weil & Russell, made most famous perhaps by the incomparable Solomon Burke. A version was performed with Songlines Choir at the Uncivilisation Festival in August 2013.

None Of Us Are Free

A slice of ragtag flotsam, recorded with the wonderful Peter Keserue in a few spare moments in a deserted classroom in 2013…Image: 'Frontera' by Fernando Marti of the Justseeds Collective, (

Isles Ne'er Forgotten

An instrumental piece written for Sarah Jewell's setting of Longfellow's 'The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls' becomes one of the pieces made for Otherworld's 'Beneath the Waves' show, https://www.facebook.com/OtherworldInteractive, featuring Chris Bluemel (of Seize the Day) on violin...

The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls

Play that ukelele daily! (This is from https://www.facebook.com/OtherworldInteractive/)

Canopy Goodbye

This almost-a-song was written to play at a conference I helped organise on the theme of 'keeping sight of delight', with a fantastic accidental band made up of cajon, flute, ukulele and rainstick, as well as a narrated list of each person's private delight (sadly not included herein)...

Keeping Sight Of Delight (con Bassos Tweakados)

A wordless wander with added mbira to greet visitors to Otherworld's show 'Cloudforest' (https://www.facebook.com/OtherworldInteractive/)

Into the Cloudforest

Another piece of the musical Occu-pie; featuring the delightful Ben7 on the clarinet; (we recorded his part on the top floor of the Bank of Ideas - www.bankofideas.org.uk- on a freezing December evening. I now have a terror that we will both be apprehended and charged with 'abstraction of reverb'...
Soon to appear on Occupation Records' 2nd release (http://occupationrecords.com)

My Fair Share

A new tune to accompany various old autumnal, appleish words, in an era of weatherly weirdness. (Photo by Richard Bowler)

Autumn (If Only)

Welcome to the ancient nearly new...(trad. & rewritten 2010 or so)

Robin Hood and Little John
Have both gone to the fair, o
and we will to the merry green wood
To salute the buck and hare, o

Chorus:
Hal an tow, jolly rumbalo
We were up long before the day
To welcome in the summer, to welcome in the May
Oh summer is a-coming in
And winter’s gone away

We may hear the cawing of the crow
Prime Ministers may come and go
But come the merry month of May
Everything must glow-ee-o

And as for that good knight, St. George
They say he lived and breathed in Palestine
If that Mister George flew in today
They’d bang ‘im up in Harmondsworth I say

We’re on and off the heavy brew
Juggernauts may rumble through
But come every merry month of May
Our revels will be born anew

Let’s chance the dawn and dance our fate
Whether with or without a mate
It may be getting very late
But ne’er too late to celebrate

You can keep your capitalism, 
But please don’t run off with the blossom
Has anybody seen my old friend 
Jack-i-the-Green?

Hal an tow...

PS. Thanks to Del Bailie for most of the arrangement!

Hal an Tow

A tune containing several numbers, a couple of invocations and an oily slogan, wrapped up in noises, this is a response Shell Out Sounds' request for music to be made about Shell et al, to help the campaign to see the Southbank Centre sever its relationship to the oily behemoth...www.shelloutsounds.org

Shall We Go?

Lone version of the (rewritten) song we sang inside and outside the Queen Elizabeth Hall on the South Bank on Sunday June 9th 2013: www.shelloutsounds.org
Thanks for the song, Mr. Cohen...

Hallelujah

I'm available for tunes and merriment in the woods, forest school-style and otherwise; also on the lookout for musical compatriots to navigate choppy uncharted times with rhythm, harmony & poetry...www.hedgemustard.org

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