This is a tribute to my grandparents Herbert and Gladys Davies. My grandparents were joyful companions to me and my sister Julia in our childhood, and we all benefited from them living next door. Something for which I will always be grateful. And when their only other grandchildren, our cousins Sally and Mark used to come and stay, our lives were further enriched.
The Little Things is OUT NOW on all streaming platforms, part of my debut album Nature's Grace which is also out now on all streaming platforms.
https://helefonix.bandcamp.com/album/natures-grace

 
My grandparents really provided a glorious backdrop and embedded a sense of right and wrong, gently and kindly. When I took my video out to record them chatting to me in 1992 I captured lots of detail about their younger years. 

Some of the chat was hard to hear and my granddad has a wonderful Teeside accent. Even my dad, on hearing the video recently said he'd never realised what a broad County Durham accent his father had. When I was deciding which bits to use to immortalise them, I felt that these phrases summed up their approach to life. I hope you enjoy the track.

Thanks to Charlie Deakin Davies, my eldest, for cleaning up the vocals on this, it was pretty tricky to do and I am really happy with how it's turned out.

“You see it only boils down to one little thing doesn’t it? 
Being Kind
Makes all the difference
We live each day as it comes and we enjoy it
It’s the little things in life that really count
One thing we’ve always been able to do and that’s laugh
Well I say, now your granny just laughs at me you know
I’ve had a very happy life and I’m very grateful
Oh it’s like being in heaven here”

There's also a video of them saying most of these things!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n49usYsS4GE

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The Little Things ft Herbert and Gladys Davies

Muziek is mijn passie 
Music is my passion

I am Dutch and spend time in USA and the Netherlands, I travel across the world whenever I have the opportunity and love music worldwide. 
I create and share playlists on Twitter, Support artists and write a blog
I also have a monthly show on Bostinradioworldwide :)

Love to dance and smile as often as possible and share music with the world and hope to bring a smile to everyone's face sharing these Good Vibes

Connect with me on twitter and send me your music ^_^

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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