Inspired by a line in Bob Dylan's book, Chronicles (2004): "Splotches of blood in the ice, and red lines in the snow like spiderwebs..."

Blood In The Ice

After news of riots in London this song almost wrote itself. The idea that everything we know about our lives could be suddenly destroyed and we might have to cope with a whole new type of existence...

Living In Hell

A little trippy song about the strange nature of existence.

Time And Space's Dance

GuitarGrain

Eachtra Echo

Lunar Notes

Chimes 2506

A sample from the upcoming album by Bren Ó Ruaidh and Riff Raft. 

Bren Ó Ruaidh - guitar and vocals
Dave O'Keefe - trumpet
Liam de Staic - trombone
Tony Adams - clarinet 
Niall Dennehy - drums 
Niall McGuinness - bass

St. James Infirmary

This is a midi realisation of a tune I composed nearly a decade ago, on the chords of All of Me. I had forgotten about it but just found it again. It's about time I learned it!

AwaitingAlignment

My students introduced me to Grime lately and I wanted to show them roughly how to make a track. It was fun to make. A lot more could be done to it to make it more authentic like more reverb, vintage record crackle and some wobbly degradation of the piano track, but for an hour's work it came out pretty good. Of course it's probably too busy to rap over, but you might dance to it or something. I must do some more tracks like this, and I should probably listen to some more of it too to hone my instincts.

Bren O Ruaidh