Himalayan Suite & Other Tales

Himalayan Suite, Pts. 1 & 2

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.