Hybrid X Theme (Animal Remix)

A sweet little track i wrote around a field recording i took in Carnival Park NZ of the bat-sh*t crazy acoustic insanity that is the dual voicebox of the lovely Tui bird. You can hear several of them all chatting away in this track - so much so, i just have to stop the music at one pont to let them speak a little more clearly

Incidentui W Tui

i utterly love the work of Thomas Newman and wanted to write something that was inspired by his sense of of odd instrumentation and melody. Unfortunately I wrote this instead.

Newman Homage

A simple little track written whilst testing patches on Omnisphere again (Eric Persing has a lot to answer for)
I wanted to write something a little wistful but vaguely euphoric, and this is what came out. It features my heavily overused 'guitar orchestra' wall of sound i shamelessly nicked off Vai years ago.

Being Here - String Swell

Written to celebrate the birth of Jasmine, my friend (and builder of theguitar this is played on!) Ben Crowe's first daughter.

Jasmine - Sus Mix

I've had a long and humbling association with the amazing talent that is Helen Turner. We did a lot of co-production work on her 1997 album Permission, but had always stumbled to co-produce anything of mine. Helen very kindly agreed to provide vox on this little ditty - it's old now but a nice piece of history. Helen of course lifted it beyond its total mediocrity by providing a lovely middle 8 both vocally and lyrically.

Things i Know

Another 'can i write in the style of....' piece - this time unfortunately Mr Vai gets the dubious please of having his phrasing and harmonic structure picked apart. Not really finished, but it's here anyway.

Via Vai

From my album Strange Tale - first track i wrote entirely on Chapman Stick, only to find out i've been stringing the Stick wrong for years, so to ever play this live i'll need to string the Stick wrong again!!

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