New Production of songs from my journey from the East back to the West after 20 years of another lifestyle and culture, and what I found when I returned to Scotland.

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Nowhere to Run to

The Market Place

From The East Down to The West

Mandingo

2nd Single Crackin' Up is written by Tom Clelland, and is about the turmoil of life I would say. It's taken a few forms over the years and I eventually recorded it in this format with brass instead of voices.

Crackin' Up (Second Single)

I Wonder Just How Long

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I Ain't Scared of the Dark no More

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The Love Ambassadors

You Keep Throwing My Heart Away (From the West)

‘Indus Rush’ is the brainchild of musician and producer, Stephen Whitby, recorded with session players over the Internet, and mixed down and produced by Steve in his Dalbeattie Studio.

Taken from the forthcoming album ‘From The East Down to The West’, The Market Place/Mandingo are two parts of an unfinished trilogy of songs about Iraq. The Market Place was inspired by Stephen’s experiences in Asia/The Middle East; the music and lyrics painting an atmospheric picture of the Souks and Bazaars and Stephen’s vocals bringing a melancholic longing to the piece. Despite the vast difference in environments and settings, The Market Place is fundamentally about how similar social interactions are across the world in coffee shops from Goa to Glasgow, but it’s Stephen’s time spent travelling that has helped him create his unique perspective on the world.

Stephen has spent the last 30 years travelling across the world and playing with a variety of famous musicians (including Adrian Fisher from Sparks, David Glasper and Ian “Spike” Spice from Breathe, Sparko from Doctor Feelgood and Mathew Kelly of Kingfish & The Grateful Dead) on a glorious beachfront setting called Secret Garden, on Koh Samui, in the Gulf of Thailand. He moved back to Scotland in 2008:

‘Upon returning to Scotland it’s taken a few years to get settled and organised, but now I’m starting to be creative again, and so here are a few songs from over the years, some old, some new, but all of them being relevant in my move from Asia to Scotland, hence “From The East Down to The West.”

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The Market Place / Mandingo (First Single)

Song about flying out of Bangkok on Emirates returning to Scotland via Dubai after living 20 years in the Land of Smiles, aka Thailand.

Indus Rush - Land Of Smiles - Remastered

a song I wrote on the guitar in dm which developed into this short love song.

Claire

This song was written after reading The Return of the Native, by Hardy, when I was still at High School. It inspired me to write these lyrics about the travelling country life of the gypsy caravaners who used to travel  the country lanes in the UK and Ireland in the early part of the last century.

Romany Days (Album edit)

My son took me over to California, to San Diego, and I loved it. My friends from Encinitas and Laguna Beach showed us around, and we had a great visit. I watched some surfers at the Swarmi's place in Encinitas and it reminded me of when I used to surf in West Africa. One of my greatest inspirations is Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, so I combined my visit and my love of Brian's work and came up with this modern Surf song, dedicated to the Beach Boys.

Encinitas Break (Album edit)

One of my personal favourites, this one written here at home in Dalbeattie. I love the analogue synth parts in unison with the bass guitar. Then at the end, some nice acoustic guitar.

Himalayan Suite - Annapurna

Instrumental written in the style of 60's track Green Onions by Booker T and the MG's. Has a nice guitar break in the middle of it, and it's quite rocky without trying. It stems from a practical formula I use a lot. A good 'live' track, coz the guys get to solo a lot, which we all enjoy!

Pink Garlic

Another song written in Hospital era, winter 2016 - 17. Samara is further on than the Himalayas, but the silk road passes through it, and the armies of Alexander, etc came that way on their way to conquer India. The title relates to a story about avoiding fate, which of course, you can't.

Himalayan Suite - Appointment In Samara

I wrote this song a long time ago when I lived in Aix en Provence, France. The girl I was trying to date was Claire, a French Belle, but it never happened. A very short song, but a nice tune all the same.

Tales and Anecdotes from the Waterfall

This an instrumental track hopefully adding atmosphere to the album as we approach the halfway stage. On this track Bjorn Dahlberg plays some nice atmospheric sax, as we dream our way through the Himalayas.

Himalayan Suite - Mountainscape

Well, this has got to be the most difficult song I've ever had to work on, and definatley the longest I've ever worked on a song. It was recorded badly, so getting back up to a presentable edit was very hard. The song was written after the first Gulf war, so now the words have changed a lot to make it more current. It's anti war, anti violence, anti daesh, and a little left wing politically.

Lost Quarter (Album edit)

I found myself on a Hospital Bed, surrounded by 3 guys who were all worse off than myself, and I had throat cancer! I didn't really know any of them, but I would get to know them gradually. I sat on the bed with an iPad, and a set of Headphones, and put together this piece of music. I abandoned it after a while, and thought of it as  a Soundtrack to a video of something in the future. Then I began to like it, made a few minor adjustments, and here it is...

Himalayan Suite - Red Sky

Song written from a 12 string guitar finger picking exercise I still do when I play a 12 string guitar. Although the Guitar's in normal tuning, the G chord really rings, and you can play it down from the top of the neck right down to the bottom G, on the 2 E strings. The words came to me as I recorded it in the studio.

Waterfall Dance

A child speaks of his desire to travel, in personal dreams and introduces the Himalayan Suite. Thereafter follows the voices of the southern Himalayas, as we venture into the musical mysticism of the north Indian sub continent. Strange voices in a strange land, different sounds, languages, all done to a great Dance beat!

Himalayan Suite - Pts 1 & 2

This is a new mix of this song which was my last single. Barbara (BeatPSI) did the vocals and they sound great to me. This new mix is a little more raw and rockier, remastered for the album on Sept 17th 2019

Follow My Star

Follow My Star feat. BetaPSI (Album mix)

A track about being called into work on a Sunday evening, featuring a chant, a guitar solo and some nice harmonies. Mastered on Sept 17th 2019.

Telephone Song

Telephone Song with BetaPSI Project

10th July. Changed the ending, go out with sax fade and reprise of machine gun drum  reintroduce Chorus in song before solos.....A tribute to the memory of those who perished in the French Terror attacks last year and this year. A rock song with a slow beat, and a story to tell of sadness. First Master on 11 Sept 2019. Second Master uploaded on 18th Sept 2019

A Bad Day In Paris (All Fall Down)feat. BetaPSI

An instrumental version of the song "I'd Share it with You". Mastered Sept 17th 2019

The Road Ahead

I'd Share it With You (Instrumental)

I'd Share It With You (Instrumental)

Experimental track based on Endless app on my iPhone. I pulled it into Logic Pro X and embellished it a bit with some other bits and pieces to try and eradicate the monotony of it. Seems to have worked quite well. This is the final.

Pinball

Another experimental track using a basic riff on Endless on my iPhone, and then bringing it into Logic Pro X. Ithen used mainly sounds from Synthmaster 1 and a bit of Massive as well.

Where's The Mouse

Where's The Mouse (Mix 1)

Where's The Mouse Mix 2

When I'm away on me holidays, I take a laptop, but such is the mess in our room, I can never find the wireless mouse, as I hate using the pad. So I said to my son, "I'm gonna write a tune called that!" So here it is...

Early stages of new track...thinking about some ladies backing vocals on "Jah say" lines and other male singer for second line. As yet unfinished and just in idea stage...Anyone want to help with suggestions or anything else, is ok...message me.

Jah Say (The Rastafarian Way)

Follow My Star (feat. The Beta PSI Project)

I'd Share It with You (feat. The Beta PSI Project)

My Baby Loves to Dance (feat. The Beta PSI Project)

La Stella Del Nord (feat. The Beta PSI Project)

Song for Bridget (feat. The Beta PSI Project)

Bonjour tout le monde! Guten Tag allerseits! and Sawasdee Khrap! Here's where I post early versions of songs on the planning board TO SEE THE REACTION OF EVERYBODY. Feel free to message me about any of them. The new album coming in the near future is The Road Ahead, so these are the songs in very early versions. No doubt they will have changed a bit by the time the album is released. Please visit me on my Facebook page at the obvious address, and share the songs or albums already published. Thanks for visiting my Soundcloud profile.....here's a little history: 

Signed by Nub Music in 2015, here are Indus Rush's first and second albums of Rock songs, Orchestrations and Tunes interwoven with synths and guitars, musical tales and anecdotes influenced by travels from the shores of Koh Samui, through the Asian sub-continent to the hills of Southern Scotland. In short, music for all generations. The second album, "Himalayan Suite & Other Tales", is a loose concept album strung with intermittent  singles as well, and now joins the first in his growing repertoire.

Indus Rush is the brainchild of musician and producer, Stephen Whitby, and is designed to be the vehicle of Steve’s own songs and productions. All of the musicians are real of course, but never really get together in one studio as the whole product is recorded with session players over the Internet, and mixed down and produced by Steve in his makeshift Dalbeattie Studio.

Stephen Whitby started making music at High School in the 70’s but left the UK in 1979 at the advent of Thatcherism. After stints in Holland, Belgium and Thailand over a period of 30 years, he finally made it back to Scotland in 2008, together with his Thai wife and 3 children.

Most of Steve’s playing career was with European, American, Australasian and British musicians performing and blending many styles of music from around the world on a glorious beachfront setting called Secret Garden, on Koh Samui, in the Gulf of Thailand. Some of the most notable performers Steve played with included Adrian Fisher (Sparks), David Glasper and Ian “Spike” Spice (Breathe), Sparko (Doctor Feelgood), Mathew Kelly (Kingfish & The Grateful Dead), G Carlsberg (Herman Broods Wild Romance) Wölli Münchhausen (Die Toten Hosen) Jaap de Jonckheere (Urban Heroes) and Hans Vermeulen (producer and ex Sandy Coast front man) to name but a few.

‘Upon returning to Scotland it took a few years to get settled in and organised, but now I’m in a creative vein again, and so here are a few songs from over the years, some old, many new, and a few of them being relevant in my move from Asia to Scotland, hence “From The East Down to The West”. There are others written whilst in Hospital in Edinburgh having treatment for throat cancer, and some are a mixture of ideas written down whilst I was at school.’ Two of the songs were played live at Secret Garden, and a couple of others were written and recorded in demo form there. 

These albums are unique as he  has a song for everyone from different eras over the last 50 years.

Indus Rush

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