Thought I would just record myself doing a cover of one of my all-time favourite songs by the magnificent Annie Clark, just for my own amusement.

Strange Mercy - St. Vincent Cover

Been practicing my home recording technique, trying to get better at the whole tech thing and have recorded a little cover of one of my favourite Fleetwood mac songs in the process.

Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac Cover

Scene I of my musical drama 'The Stench of Lavender', performed in the Richard Burton Theatre at RWCMD on the 12th May.

The Stench of Lavender - Act I - Scene I

Scene II of my musical drama 'The Stench of Lavender', performed in the Richard Burton Theatre at RWCMD on the 12th May.

The Stench of Lavender - Act I - Scene II

Scene III of my musical drama 'The Stench of Lavender', performed in the Richard Burton Theatre at RWCMD on the 12th May.

The Stench of Lavender - Act I - Scene III

Scene IV of my musical drama 'The Stench of Lavender', performed in the Richard Burton Theatre at RWCMD on the 12th May.

The Stench of Lavender - Act I - Scene IV

Huge thanks to the performers:
Laura Curry - Soprano
Alice French - Harp
Joe Keenan - Cello
Andy Munro - Flute
Keiran Lewis - Clarinet

Elizabeth's Aria - Full Orchestration (Live at St Fagans)

I've recently decided to stop taking songwriting too seriously and have some real fun for a change, and having recently been getting into my funk/soul/neo-soul stuff I've decided to start writing some tunes in that sort of style. I wrote this for my good friend Tamara Carroll  to sing and she's done a killer job here. The mix and the arrangement isn't perfect but I'm hoping to record this along with more material like it properly in the near future. This is just a prototype of things to come. Hope you enjoy!

DEVIL

'Argal' is a piece originally for string quartet which I composed way back in 2012 when I first started my undergrad studies at RWCMD. Argal is a beautiful lake opposite my childhood home, which appears before you like a painting if you look out of the front window of my house. I spent a lot of my childhood around that lake, in the woods and in the park, and it represents home to me. So when I left home for the first time I decided to write a string quartet that represented all my emotions of home, my past, my departure and my future. It draws heavily on the impressionist sound of Ravel and Debussy, as they were the two composers I was studying most at the time. The full piece in its entirety never got performed and so I recently decided to make a version with virtual instruments just so it was out there for people to hear. I have adapted it for a string orchestra for this rendition. This piece still means a lot to me, and i'm very fond of it. Here is the first movement.

ARGAL I: 'Now'

I decided to use the best solo string library I could find - Spitfire Sacconi Strings - to finally create in its entirety the truest rendition I could of the entirety of my string quartet piece 'Argal', which I composed way back in 2011. I'm so pleased to finally hear the piece in a clear and true way for the first time ever. Even though this is just MIDI I'm incredibly happy with the results. This piece means  a lot to me. Hope you like it.

'Argal' - Two Movements for String Quartet

A composer and singer-songwriter hailing from Cornwall and recent composition graduate of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff.

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