A playlist of some of my more gentle and downbeat numbers...

Slow paces...

Just a wee selection of some of my most recent uploads and compositions. Thank you for listening!

Just a few..

As part of a project for libraries, it was suggested to me by a good friend to have some fun with nursery rhymes. Here are 3 of them...

Nursery Rhymes Reinvented...

Childhood Memories

I wrote this short work a while back and recently had the opportunity to re-record the solo cello part (I am the cellist and pianist in the recording)with a full string section for Clockwork Sessions in Glasgow. The work itself was written during lockdown with a view to expressing the brittle nature of our planet and society during that time. Not much seems to have changed...
Thank you for listening!!

Solace cello and strings only

Solace Solo Cello alone stem

Solace

Solace full mix

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Solace Mix 1 (Piano, Cello and Strings)

This track just seemed to come about on its own whilst improvising and I just love the feel of it, so I thought I'd share... Thanks for listening!

Intrigue

I wrote this track for strings many years back and thought I'd tweak it up a bit and add it to my profile... I hope you enjoy!

Awakening

I released this before on Soundcloud but discovered that my levels were too low, so Ive revised my mix. Hopefully this is better.
Cheers

Intrigue (Revised)

Intrigue (revised version)

A track I wrote during lockdown and recently re mixed.

First snow

First Snow

I love monotony in my tracks sometimes... Almost like a drone, the piano maintains a pulsating rhythm driving this work forward and giving it a suspensful feel...

Pulse

Another expansive and soaring large string section track...
I hope you enjoy!

Distant Thoughts

Distant thoughts

The Wheels on the Bus

The Wheels On The Bus Variations

Hickory Dickory Dock

Three Blind Mice

Just a calm perpetual track with some interesting and unusual piano writing... Hope you enjoy..

Drifting

A mysterious orchestral track mixed with electronics to give the feel of a mysterious crime scene...

Streetlights

I wrote this with a night time suspenseful and mysterious feel in mind... Hope you enjoy!

Timebomb

Another track Ive written with a mysterious chase theme blending into something more hopeful and perhaps easy going... (like they thought they had escaped!!!).. . before going back into the unpleasant reality of being pursued!!!! 
Something like that anyway!!!!

Traveller

Just another one to add but thought Id go small and gentle this time.. A perhaps sad and reflective number delving into the deep depths of loneliness...

Hidden tears

Hidden Tears

Just a little lullabiedbye that came about tonight...

Lullabye for a desperate world...

This is an imaginary theme tune to an imaginary TV show!! The very business that Id love to be involved in!!!

Spiral

I wrote this using the Sibelius notation programme as I just love the thrill of writing a proper score - of course the expense of hearing it live will no doubt permanently be WAY out of reach!!... but I must say a massive hats off to NotePerformer whose sounds (which replace Sibelius sounds (no loss there!!) at a very reasonable price, are simply fantastic for mock ups!!! Please check them out!! It's so worth it!
Took me 3 days to put this together, and it started with a simple idea of flying at speed through hazy clouds which intensify and reveal all kinds of dramatic landscapes....
That was the idea.... the music always manages to drag me to a million other places!
I hope you enjoy! Ive enjoyed doing this one!!

Flying Machine

Seasons

This is a small selection of works I have composed, arranged, performed and produced over the last year or so. The singer on the vocal tracks is my wife, Gill De Groote, and all instruments on all tracks are performed and produced by myself. Thank you for listening...

The Wind Blows Through Me

Hi... Im a professional cellist and enthusiastic and committed composer writing, performing and producing the majority of my work. I love creating and I find inspiration in everything I hear or experience. Thanks in advance for listening!

rudidegroote

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