'Aimless at Dusk' is taken from my Woodwind Trio (2014). The recording is kindly provided by Michael Christie.

The first performance was given by Rosalind Ridout at West Road Concert Hall (Cambridge)



Aimless At Dusk

Beggars Music is a UK-based music publisher boasting a remarkable catalogue of artists including Glass Animals, SBTRKT, Cat Power, Yo La Tengo, Warpaint and Kurt Vile. It's represented in Australia and New Zealand by Gaga Music. For licensing enquiries in AU/NZ, email licensing@gaga.com.au. 

Kurt Vile: Baby's Arms

568 Htz Heart Frquency.

Typecase Treasury

A piece I wrote as part of my finals at Cambridge, for ensemble.

Inspired by the Buddhist concept of mandalas...

Entering The Charnel Grounds

Vashti Bunyan is an English singer who was publicized to be the next Marianne Faithfull and the female version of Bob Dylan back in the mid-60s. Several singles were released in the 1960s to some mild success. Bunyan also released the LP, Just Another Diamond Day, in 1970 which consisted of songs written while traveling in a horse drawn gypsy cart. Critics panned the album and a discouraged Vashti soon disappeared from the music scene.


Vashti Bunyan - Girl's Song In Winter

Live at Noteworthy 2014 / Cover songs

A song about an elephant in the room, featuring whistling, humming and singing and harmonium playing. Came after peregrinating with Mr Tim Dalling in the middle of England.

animals in devon

Elephant

Although the title of this work came only after its completion, it holds relevance not just for the musical content but also for the circumstances surrounding it. I had been looking into serialism and systematic methods of pitch selection, and although I have great love for much music based on these principles, its aesthetics and formal structures were getting me down; I felt restricted and did not feel I could compose freely the music that was part of myself under such bases. So one day I was in a small practice room in London at a rather ropey grand piano, and I simply played and wrote down what I liked. It was through this intuitive approach that Clearing Mists was created, and interestingly for me I would analyse parts sometime after their initial birth, and notice connections and theoretical patterns which were inherent; form developed through juxtaposition of apparently unrelated ideas, and occasional repetition helped give the piece shape. Although fairly simplistic in some ways, which is perhaps a danger of a 'freely-composed' work, I feel there is a unity and individualism to it.

Played by John Reid of the Aurora Orchestra, for the BBC Proms 2011.

Clearing Mists

Aurora

Freelance musician based in London, about to release debut album.

Clearing Mists

Henry Tozer

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