The Adoration

Dark sinister drones give way to angelic voices and gentle fender rhodes notes suspended in time. Searching for beauty in dark times.

(This Is The) New Normal

A metal mallet loop sets the pattern. Cloud shimmer voices fill in the emotional space, with vocoder drifting in and out. A final ghost piano melody comes in later. Inspired by my daughter.

Elizabeth watches Raindrops

This piece features waves of all kinds - real audio recordings and synthetic waves. It layers these on top of pulsing electronic cycles, that turn relentlessly as time marches on regardless. It's a longer piece and I guess it's about childhood and memory. And coasts and looking out to sea.

Time and Tide

All of this music has been born in lockdown. Some of it has been about seeking ways out of isolation through memory, imagination, and escape. I had, though, to write this more difficult piece, as I couldn't not respond to the thought of those many we people that have been lost. Its title will resonate with people of faith, though it might also express the wider idea of reconnection, or coming back to ourselves in life as the dark times pass.

Gentler textures, such as flute, electric piano, and voices, weave in and out of a simple chord pattern, which builds, subsides and builds again, rising to soaring orchestral strings. A simple analogue synth pattern rotates quietly beneath, before relinquishing the melodies to a synthesized vocal sequence to fade. The piece is embedded in real sound, processed slightly, taken from field recordings made in a mosque.

we shall return

A snapshot. Motion frozen in time. Warm nostalgic textures, dust, crackle and resonance.

Dust In Sunlight

A haunting ambient loop with glitchy textures, strings lifting part way through, and shimmering arp patterns to close. Kids at the border in the summer. Summer ghosts.

Summer Ghosts (Orchestral)

A haunting ambient loop with glitchy textures, and shimmering arp patterns to close. Second version, paired down. A young boy at the border in the summer. Summer ghosts.

Summer Ghosts (Ethereal)

Awaken - excerpt

Echoes of 'Elizabeth watches Raindrops'. Binaural rain sounds give way to that familiar arpeggio, layered chords and that haunting melody. Listen carefully at the end. Echoes of a rainy day in Melbourne.

Again, Rain (binaural daydream)

UK-based electronic musician, composer and producer, just back from living in Melbourne. Multi-instrumentalist working across the genres of electronica, EDM, ambient.

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