The idea behind 'Ancestry' was to explore the stories from my family history, including my great, great grandfather: a black minister who married a white woman in Jamaica in 1880;  his son, the conservator of forestry on the island, who planted the trees that are now under threat from the extreme weather and flooding of the climate crisis; and the living and future children in our family, all framing the expression of themes of climate justice, dual heritage identity and generational healing.
 
The album was funded by Arts Council England and the MOBO fund of Help Musicians UK. I worked with producer Doug Cave, whose music features regularly on BBC Radio 1, BBC 6 Music, Worldwide FM and has frequent rotation on Spotify's jazz/leftfield Playlists, as well as some of Bristol's finest new wave jazz musicians from Snazzback, No Go Stop and Cousin Kula. 

The sound was inspired by classic artists like Marvin Gaye, Carole King and Minnie Riperton as well as Robert Glasper-esque RnB and jazz, and contemporary artists like of Cleo Sol, Sault, Michael Kiwanuka and Jordan Rakei, as well as spoken word of Arlo Parks and Kae Tempest.

Like Family

Disquiet Junto Project 0595: Filter Progression
The Assignment: Make music by processing a static sound.

I used a field recording of static rain in Munich from 2021 or so, on four tracks identically. All of them got filtered thru Cardinal VST, a very nice VCV Rack alternative, working as an effect, so that I could apply nested LFOs and parameter curves to the stereo filters (1x lowpass, 1x highpass, 2x bandpass) and it's resonances. The whole mix was filtered by apesoft apefilter for dramaturgy reasons.

There was a 1 hour version but I cut it down to 10 minutes because even I could not stand it that long, but with 10 minutes it's nice. Without the junto rule set I think I would have applied more elements.


Track image: DALL·E "photo, f1.8, 28mm, levitating headphones at 23 pm in heavy rain in a dark blue light coming from 11 o'clock"


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Kinda Soon

At the Beach

Arome - Somebody

Republican presidential candidates debate, for some reason; Ohio enshrines infanticide in its state constitution; and Michael’s new cigar company, Mayflower Cigars, sells out of virtually every product within hours (with new stock on the way!).

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Ep. 1368 - 3rd Republican Debate Summarized In 60 Seconds

Inspired by the 1984 Band Aid classic "Do They Know It's Christmas?" - this is my try at an x-mas tune

Feed The World

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This song is about loving someone, no matter what good or bad, just that person in general just you.

Just You - Single - Kally Colquhoun

Composed 2024-2025
Arranged in Renoise
Using only Korg M1 VST instruments

(78th Korg M1 test...)

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