hard not to smile while listening to this. 

remind me of the books, can't help but relax and enjoy a great tune. thanks for making my day  a little better :)

A bit upbeat - Started as a riff used in the background of Lung Part 3 

I need a fuzzy guitar solo after the break and before the horns - but I can't do one that works - any offers let me know.  Or perhaps it just needs vocals?

Fain Bridge

This piece is from my archives.

DL available. Have fun :)

dirty FM

Here's a track from the forth coming album ....
The Rat Palace was our studio from when we first started seriously working together in 2016 until the landlords decided it was time for the artists to go and the tourists to come. It had been Mat's base since 2009 and hosted dozens of artists and musicians since it first started in 2006.
As the name suggests the place was run down, lacked various things like hot water, proper access and heating but it had a vibe, and the people we shared the space with all felt and helped to create it....Art was everything, day after night after day for years.
These 7 improvisations are a tiny fraction of the jams we had there, just a few highlights from 100s of jams. They are raw, unpolished and unconcerned with anything outside the moment. We rarely 'rehearsed' as such at the Rat Palace - just played.
Things come and things go - Vale Rat Palace, you were amazing.

Kirby/Ward -  Rat Palace Sessions Track 1 : Frantic. New Album out March 16

Crawlers

One of the first people I met on this platform was the wonderful Societe Cantine. He listened with open ears and offered indepth thoughts on my music and sparked conversation and experimentation. He, himself a mind-blowing sound artist, has released a  string of albums over the last decade that still sing with originality and genre breaking optimism. We danced round the edges of collaboration for a longtime, adding little bits of sound to bigger projects or producing video. Just before COVID hit the world we finally met in Paris - I had so much talk about, as did he.. like children we struggled with face to face language; his english is good, my french is terrible : ) We decided that we should finally start collaborating in depth and this is the first piece - conceived and played with, back and forth during lockdown COVID times. Naturally enough we titled it Language Gap after our initial stumbling meeting. It got an honourary mention in the 2023 One Minute Radio Festival and through that has been played all over the world . Fardeau Losange (as he now known) and I are working now, very slowly on some sort of album - it will take forever, but its almost secondary to the friendship that has grown around the music we have listened to, written and shared on this platform.   https://societecantine.bandcamp.com/album/lopacit-des-interlignes

Language Gap (Fardeau Losange/Mat Ward)

Samples of Ray Conniff's version of Beguin the Beguine and The Hustle

In The Beginning (Hustle)

Based on 'Duran' by Miles Davis with snippets of 'Blues for Basie' by McCoy Tyler and some Ray Conniff for good measure (The Hustle/I Only Have Eyes For You and I Found Something New).  Go listen to the originals of Duran and Blues for Basie.    

I Know If It's Cloudy (Duran)

The hole that was loved!!
Gone but not forgotten....for many Sheffielders this 'near-brutalist' structure (see picture) remains a fondly-missed refuge and meeting place. Hole int' Road (to use the proper vernacular) was built in 1967 but filled in in 1994 to make way for the new tram system. Officially called Castle Square Roundabout it occupied the site of markets going back to 1296. The site is now a tram stop, with just distant memories of the subterranean meeting place with its benches, shops and even the famous fish tank. Shame indeed!

Hole in the Road Blues

Sunwarped

St Ishmael, where you can see a medieval village eroding from the sand dunes.

St Ishmael

Messing about with a sampler and this sort of just happened.  Elements of Alone Again by Gilbert O'Sullivan.  Almost upbeat / or is it?

Sour

Enjoy music of all sorts and like to create my own.  I may not be very talented, but I have fun.
Really enjoy the Soundcloud community - much of the music is exceptional!
Very glad to be part of it.
Thank you for any listens, any likes and any comments.  
I appreciate them all.
Jim

Sour

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