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A bluesy country style rock song written in 5/4 time..

Ian Fading

Lovers

A song demo, written in 2008 after travelling through the former battlefields of Northern France and 6 years later used in Graham Sellors' play,  'Gorsey Bank to Gommecourt'. 

Birdsong by Carol Fieldhouse

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This Ain't The End

This Ain't The End (Original Film Soundtrack)

Expectations

Sue Warren - Love Is Grand MP3

From the album Into the Blue, out 27th July on Mad To Live Records

Suited & Booted

Pale Blue Dot Image credit: NASA/JPL
Earth is the tiny dot of light photographed from Voyager 1 as it turned its camera to look back at the Earth from four billion miles away.The Earth is the tiny dot in the righthand sunbeam.
Written in response to the Climate Crisis.

The Message by Carol Fieldhouse 2020

This collaboration came about through meeting Mohammadreza Behjat (Rey)at Derbyshire Refugee Solidarity. We recorded the song in our own homes during lockdown! The very rough tracks were mixed and mastered by the wonderful Chris Pepper at Saltwell Studios, Cambridgeshire. We hope to make a studio recording for my next album.

The song was written after a huge snowstorm covered many parts of the Middle East in March 2012. I saw a photo in the newspaper of desert sand dunes covered in snow and camels padding through the snowfall. At the front of the image was a man in white robes and a heavy coat; he was standing by the road next to his car catching snowflakes.

Sulaymaniyah by Carol Fieldhouse Santoor arr. by Mohammadreza Behjat

Solo musician from the midlands but also plays with Cake Sloth, Dynamite For Partisans and The Dream at the End of the World. So It Goes available on CD here: https://simonwaldram.bandcamp.com/album/so-it-goes

Suited & Booted

Simon Waldram