An Erik Satie style track created for an audio visual display in an exhibition of fractal art by Vienna Forrester in May 2022.

Icons

Ebbtide Étude

Track written for an audio visual display shown in a fractal art exhibition entitled 'Icons', for Vienna Forrester in May 2022.

Bridlington Flair

A track from the forthcoming solo album, "Stormy, Rain, Change, Fair..." by Ian Leese. All music written by Ian Leese, lyrics by Vienna Forrester. Additional backing vocals, Vienna Forrester.

Sunlight strikes the side of your face
as you slow-close eyes to the wren's sweet song.
Spring seems warmer here, cedar sheltered;
faint tang of kelp flung in on seabird's wing.

At this bright hour you are lazy; lion yawn,
still hazed with sleep that broke and left us wondering.
Across the table our smiles connect,
still shyly dusted with rememberings.

And after this, coldness will seep into our bones,
the journey North blinked away for now by the brilliance
of how feathers leap and spread,
joyously simple above our heads.

I will steal this moment
without tell-tale click of shutter,
taste sweet-tart chemistry of development
in a grey old town that dreams and dreams of trees.

I have caught your lashes' curve,
take the breathlessness of you home

along with sugar sachets and threads of song.
Contrive to hide your easy gait
within these books of words I write for you,
recalling the shape of your shadow.

I have caught your lashes' curve,
take the breathlessness of you home.

Stormy, Rain, Change, Fair...

Morning Coffee on the Roof Terrace

A track from the forthcoming solo album, "Stormy, Rain, Change, Fair..." by Ian Leese. All music written by Ian Leese, lyrics from a poem by Vienna Forrester.

The Way It Is

A track from forthcoming solo album "Stormy, Rain, Change, Fair..." by Ian Leese. All music written by Ian Leese, lyrics by Vienna Forrester.

Ocean's Daughter (unfinished)

A track from the forthcoming solo album, "Stormy, Rain, Change, Fair..." by Ian Leese. All music written by Ian Leese, lyrics adapted from a poem by Vienna Forrester.

Geometries of Postcolonial Spacetime (unfinished)

I'm just another fretless bass player, but shorter.

The rough mix and demo tracks here are to appear on my forthcoming solo album, "Stormy, Rain, Change, Fair..." which I hope to release in 2023. I've written the music and played the instruments.  I have used and occasionally adapted the poetry of my life partner Vienna Forrester. She has a knack of creating strong visuals in her poems and I wanted to showcase her talents and fulfil my need to release my musical work to the general public, hence the reason for this album. I am deliberately trying to stay away from the notion that songs must follow a rhyming verse chorus pattern so think of these lyrics as poetry (which is what they are) and you'll get the idea. Of course, this also means that commercialism is out the window but all I ask is that you listen and if you like what you hear, that's fine by me... if you don't, that's also fine. I just want to be happy with what I create but if it makes you happy too, then that's a bonus.

Thanks for reading and listening.
Ian

Ian Leese

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