Here are all the Christmas tracks we received in 2021. For a full tracklist, go to https://freshonthenet.co.uk/xmas2021

Christmas Crackers 2021

A special musical mix including Roxanna Panufnik, Rosie Bergonzi, Wolf Alice, Jess Gillam, Karen Harding and other talented female and gender-expansive artists, songwriters, composers and groups. Now that’s what we call a festive line-up!

Happy Christmas from The F-List for Music

Roll On May

I think of this festive ditty as everything you ever wanted to know about Christmas in 3&-a-half minutes. Bazza Mach vocals,  Otto Silveira features on keyboards, Gareth Lewis guitar. Produced by Bryan Evans

Waiting 4 Santa Claus

A world wide collaboration!
We hope you enjoy this original track which has been augmented by forty voices from around the globe. Extremely grateful to everyone who responded to my call to arms, to help me with this first 'proper' vocal track I've written and now released. This track is being released in aid of charity - Help Musicians. 
It is out on 17th December 2021. www.helefonix.co.uk 

Thanks to the contributors, not just the chorus vocals but additional embellishments, sent in unasked, by My Girl The River, Emily Zuzik and Verity White. Which you can hear throughout the track. There's also some lush cello thanks to Nanette from Juliet and Nanette. Some beats from Frankie and Riki Abi. And voices sharing season felicitations from all around the world - China, Australia, USA, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Austria, France. 

Thanks also to Jackie Weaver and Ian McMillan who agreed to collaborate on another track with me! It's been an honour to create this track and I am humbled to have everyone's voices on it. It sounds SO much better now!!!

Thanks to 
Emily Zuzik, LA, USA
Alan Neilson
Neil March
Demiurgo (Italy)
Sarah McQuaid 
Blokeacola (China)
Frankie and Riki Abi (Turkey)
Ditsea Yella
Jon Ogara

Verity White
With Sun
The Brothers Burn
Serious Child
Alex Elbro
Amongst the Pigeons
Jackie Weaver
My Girl The River
Kid Apollo

The West View
Found Object
Keeley (Dublin, Ireland)
Juliet and Nanette
Kay Burden from Platronic (Germany)
Soricah
Trevas
Felix Tigersonic

Echoes of Aphelion (Spain)
PulrR Music (Germany)
Fishing 4 Compliments
Michael Donoghue (Jersey)
Minnie Birch
Joe Rose
Warteraum (Austria)
Delowusu
Morning’s Thief
Caboan (Denmark)
Chris West (Australia)
Ian McMillan


Please donate to Help Musicians (benevolent fund)charity by buying the download!
https://helefonix.bandcamp.com/track/were-gonna-have-some-fun

Helefonix and the Harmonix - We're Gonna Have Some Fun

Stockport Polka is from Agent Starling's winter EP The Northern Lights Trilogy. Self released December 2021. Catchy hurdy-gurdy tunes, hypnotic drones, live bass grooves & strings  with a bountiful sprinkling of bells, twinkles and festive spirit.  

Trad/Arr Duffy-Howard & Budworth

Stockport Polka

This song is all about the cosier elements of the winter season, in particular the way we illuminate the darker evenings and shorter days with candles, fires, and fairy lights. I was struck by the way the festivals of Diwali and Hanukkah celebrate light at this time of year and that the Pagan traditions many of us follow at Christmas do the same. I wrote the lyrics last year on the winter solstice, as the UK headed into a lockdown Christmas.

Winter lights

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Winter Lights

A Christmas song about the loneliness and cold feeling we sometimes get around this season, with a gentle reminder that there is light all around.

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Lyrics:
A song you sing when you're alone
The winter creeping in your bones
Sun is setting, days go by
A dwindling Christmas lullaby

Sing out for me
Sing out for me, for me

The fire is on,
But you're still cold
With tired eyes and mind and soul
Others laughing jovially
Around the Christmas tree

Sing out for me
Sing out for me, for me

Come out, come out
There's light all around
A warm embrace
And snow on the ground

The dark will recede
You'll have all you need
To Christmas, we will sing out

Sing out for me
Sing out for me, for me

Sing out for me
Sing out, sing for me, for me

Christmas Lullaby (Sing for Me)

It's Christmas.

Deck the Halls

In the Bleak Midwinter

White Winter Hymnal

Cover of the Howard Blake classic, Walking in the Air. Performed by Tall Poppies. Recorded at Hackney Road Studios

Walking In The Air (a christmas cover)

Life is not about who you once were. It is about who you are now and who you have the potential to be.  About having fun. 
Throwing out the rule book! Thrilled to have had some lovely support from various unexpected quarters.
Teaching Darkness How To Fly was a lovely pastoral excursion, where I set some prose by Ian McMillan to local found sounds. It found a home on BBC Radio 3 (thanks to Elizabeth Alker on her Saturday morning show), and on Cery's Sunday show on 6 Music, who also shared my first 'bird as soloist' experiment Song Thrush Serenade on national radio.
These two tracks are on my debut album, Nature's Grace.

'Who Do You Wanna Be' attracted the kind attention of Tom Robinson and was honoured to make it into his broadcast mixtape on 6 Music. 
BBC Intro Channel Islands (a remix I did for Michael Donoghue) and featured in Fresh Faves from Fresh on The Net as well as on the super independent shows such as WorldWideFM thanks Nitin Sawhney, Anna Phoebe and Kayla Painter, Tim Willett's New Music Generator, Neil March's Trust The Doc show (who have both invited me to share my music at their events,) Andy Sharman's KYN Show, Amazing Radio, Rich James Electro Show, Chris West's The Tripwire, Slava and Trev's show, Russ Evans Electro show and more, many of whom play me week after week and have me as their opening or outgoing show tracks. I am so grateful. 
A collaboration with THE Jackie Weaver earlier in 2021 resulted in national TV, newspaper and radio coverage, which was huge fun.

I'm creating a range of music, from what could be viewed as classical for a modern era I guess? telling a story through notes rather than words. I also love a beat, prose and some simple phrase work (either my own voice, samples or spoken prose) and I love a bop!  so my genre is not really defined or fixed BUT people say they can tell it's my work. I've also been honoured to be asked to do remixes by a number of artists and these have been going down well.

This piece for the Featured Artists Coalition was fascinating to research and write - Ageing and Raging: https://thefac.org/news-directory/fav-insights-by-helen-meissner

Grateful to LA based magazine for this comprehensive interview!: https://shoutoutla.com/meet-helen-meissner-music-producer/

How did it all start?
A glitch in the matrix meant that Garageband ended up in my lap! (I have since moved to Logic)that's Lockdown for you!! never had any desire to write or produce before but love what's coming out in the mix and hope you do too.  
Supermassive black holes in my production knowledge of course. Happy to be guided by anyone who cares to get in touch!
It's a bit like having a baby without realising you were pregnant! There's plenty more where that came from, from other dance to more chill. The world is my oyster. (Boring bits, based in Herts, legend in my own lunchtime). Wrong side of 50, right side of life, left of centre, off of the strip. 

Old enough to know better, young enough not to care

Bring it on!!!

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