Thought I'd try a "spoken word" angle on a traditional Christmas carol. Seemed to work ok. Kinda nice to just tell the sweet story...

What Child Is This?

My new album ‘Burmo’ will be released on CD and streaming platforms on Friday, November 14th 2025 and is available to pre-order now.

I took my time writing and arranging these songs. I wanted to create a world in an album: somewhere melodic and transporting, that would reward anyone kind enough to listen .

It’s deliberately wide-ranging, an album that worships the White Album’s head-spinning variety, and is happy to fall on its face in an attempt to reach for those dizzying heights. At the album’s core is a homage to the classical guitar, an instrument I fell in love with as a child, my gateway drug to everything that has followed.

There are lysergic folk songs - Hazy River pt 1 and Hazy River pt 2 - that are a progression from my previous album… there’s a song suite (the title track) celebrating Morricone, Wings and the classical guitar… there are evocations of Love, Elliott Smith and Pixes on ‘Abalone’; a love letter to The Stone Roses on ‘Palm house’; and an off kilter pop song, channeling early King Crimson that mutates into a shoegaze dub meltdown, ‘Feverfew’.

I wanted to make an album that sounded like finding a shoebox filled with old photos and the flotsam and jetsam of life that I really care about.… a jumble of memories, places, emotions and sounds.

The album is rooted in the Clwydian hills, in memories of Nannerch and Mold, with diversions to Blaenau Ffestiniog, Sefton Park in Liverpool and Caego, on the outskirts of Wrexham.

‘Burmo’ was an insult when I was at the Alun school in Mold in the 80’s. Anything that was deemed uncool was ‘burmo’. It was Clarks Commandos; non-white socks; corduroy trousers; Mike Read; dinner time chess club; Dire Straits instead of The Jam; NHS specs and books instead of comics.

I was ‘burmo’. I still am ‘burmo’… but now - in middle age - it’s glorious to feel unapologetic about it.

The first recording sessions for ‘Burmo’ were in May 2023, with Russ Hayes (Kidsmoke, Peaness, Catfish and the Bottlemen) at Orange Sound Studios in Penmaenmawr. We recorded the live acoustic guitar and vocal takes that are the spine of the album, and then came back to the arrangements once a month to embellish outwards. ‘Burmo’ is a much more fully realised album than anything I’ve released before. A real trip for the ears.

My good friend, Martin Carr - polymath, musical visionary and - in a previous life - the chief songwriter in The Boo Radleys - produced the first half of ‘feverfew’, re-imagining the song as skipping, synth-driven electro. It’s humbling for me that Martin collaborates on the album because The Boo Radley’s 1993 magnum opus ‘Giant Steps’ has been a huge inspiration to me over the last 30+ years.

Rachel Williams - drummer with the fantastic indie pop band Peaness - drums on ‘burmo’, ‘hillside’ and is sampled in the coda of ‘feverfew’.

All other instruments are played by me.

The album is available from all the usual streaming / download outlets from Friday 14th November 2025, and as limited edition gatefold CD (300 copies) from bandcamp.

All songs ©️Adam Walton 2025 (Copyright Control)

Produced by Adam Walton and Russ Hayes.

Engineered, mixed and mastered by Russ Hayes at Orange Sound Studios in Penmaenmawr, May 2022 - September 2025.

Buy on bandcamp

Palm House

Album LIBELLULA (2025)
Brano: LIBELLULA
Artisti: Alberto VENTRELLA - Luigi BONIZIO
Voce: Luigi BONIZIO
Chitarra: Alberto VENTRELLA
Theremin: Lorenzo GIORDA
Cori: Minerva BONIZIO
venbo@gmail.com

LIBELLULA (Ventrella Bonizio)

FOTOTESSERA (Ventrella Bonizio)

Album LIBELLULA (2025)
Brano: '68
Artisti: Alberto VENTRELLA - Luigi BONIZIO
Voce: Luigi BONIZIO
Chitarra: Alberto VENTRELLA
Contrabbasso: Ivan APPINO
Flauto traverso: Paolo PARPAGLIONE

venbo@gmail.com

'68 (Ventrella - Bonizio)

Album LIBELLULA (2025)
Brano: POLSO DELLA SITUAZIONE
Artisti: Alberto VENTRELLA - Luigi BONIZIO
Voce: Luigi BONIZIO
Chitarra: Alberto VENTRELLA
Chitarra elettrica: Stefano DANUSSO
Armonica a bocca: Marco MINA
venbo@gmail.com

POLSO DELLA SITUAZIONE (Ventrella Bonizio)

Album LIBELLULA (2025)
Brano: MIRAGGIO
Artisti: Alberto VENTRELLA - Luigi BONIZIO
Voce: Luigi BONIZIO
Chitarra: Alberto VENTRELLA
Contrabbasso: Ivan APPINO
Cori: Minerva BONIZIO

MIRAGGIO (Ventrella - Bonizio)

Album LIBELLULA (2025)
Brano: LETTO DI CHIODI
Artisti: Alberto VENTRELLA - Luigi BONIZIO
Voce: Luigi BONIZIO
Chitarra: Alberto VENTRELLA
Mandolino e glockenspiel: Cristiano LO MELE
venbo@gmail.com

LETTO DI CHIODI (Ventrella - Bonizio)

Are we're going now
Is this our getaway?
Have we hit the wall
Is it time to ricochet?
Away from here
From these evil days

We'll fly away, fly

We won't give in
They won't pin us down
We'll never live
In their shantytown

But we don't know if we can
We don't know if we will
Is this a plan?
What's possible and what's a dream?

And if we fly
Will we ever look back again?
I will not lie
I cannot see the end

Just fly away, yes fly

No we don't know if we can
Is this really a plan?
Do we make a stand?
We don't know what will come
Or how long is too long
When do we run, just fly away?

Are we going now?
Is this our getaway?
Is it time
To ricochet?

Image by Paul Blenkhorn (Unsplash)

Ricochet

Tell Him I'm Dreaming

This song came from a moment of survival. I wrote Running Fire while sitting on the shores of Kona — broken, lost, and trying to heal. The island felt alive… ancient, forgiving. The lava, the sea, the silence — they all burned through the noise in my mind.

If you’ve ever stood at the edge of your own chaos, I hope this song reminds you:
the fire doesn’t just destroy. Sometimes it’s what reshapes you.

Running Fire

Melodious Points Of Light Made Music...

'spirits in time' drifts through the hallway between memory and dream — a post-folk vaporwave hymn built from whispered poems, soft guitars, and ghosted light.

Acoustic fingerpicking and brushed drums keep a human heartbeat while hazy pads, reverse-reverb swells, and bell-like sparkles melt the edges of the room. The vocal stays close and intimate, carrying lines straight from Michael Lemmer’s poem: spirits wafting through tatters of tears, birds swimming through sight, new lives intertwining with vintage skins of wine.

The chorus blooms like a moonlit echo — “Spirits in time… singing dreams, we howl with the moon” — looping back on itself like reflections in an endless mirror. It feels timeless, weightless, and a little bit lost in the best way: all of us mixed up together, moving through the night.


Written and Produced by Michael Lemmer for AMOR*LEBEN*TODO
Performed by _eflethinv_

Cover Art by _spikerr_


Original Aert by Michael Lemmer for ALL MiXED UP RADiO

*SPiRiTS*IN*TiME*

We Spirits in Time Waft Through Wispy Tatters of Tears & Fragments of Notes That Hang Through Thin Air Plying Our Moments with Melodious Points of Light Made Music As We Silently Celebrate & Magnificently Mourn Things We Share & Get All Mixed Up ~ ~ ~ * 
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twîrling the 
tunes whîch 
twîne 
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tall trees 
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whîle bîrds 
swîm înto 
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tellîng tales 
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Follow The Signal

spirits in time

Who will dream of you?
Who will long for you?
Who will sing your song?
Sing, sing your song?

When the candle flickers
Whispers in a darkened room
When you feel, feel the chill of winter
Who will wait for you?
Who will be true?

A wish for everyone
For everyone
May you find someone
Yes a wish for everyone
For everyone
May there be someone

Who will stand by you?
Who will see it through?

When the sun goes down
And the night is crowned
When the stars stop bleeding light
When your soul longs to take flight

A wish for everyone
For everyone
May you find someone
Yes a wish for everyone
For everyone
Let there be someone

Image by Jason Leung (Unsplash)

A Wish For Everyone

Are we're going now
Is this our getaway?
Have we hit the wall
Is it time to ricochet?
Away from here
From these evil days

We'll fly away, fly

We won't give in
They won't pin us down
We'll never live
In their shantytown

But we don't know if we can
We don't know if we will
Is this a plan?
What's possible and what's a dream?

And if we fly
Will we ever look back again?
I will not lie
I cannot see the end

Just fly away, yes fly

No we don't know if we can
Is this really a plan?
Do we make a stand?
We don't know what will come
Or how long is too long
When do we run, just fly away?

Are we going now?
Is this our getaway?
Is it time
To ricochet?

Image by Khristina Sergeychik (Unsplash)

Ricochet (update)

Your lies, so pretty
So enchanting
Spinning us 'round

Your replies, so witty
Quicksilver
Can't pin you down

Your words, bewitching
Sweetness dripping
Oh eloquent

But I do declare
Though they seem so fair
It's all counterfeit

Beguiling one
You play the sun
But shadows are your way
Wolf in sheep's clothes
Everyone knows
The sinner's not the saint

Your face, ever changing
Reaaranging
Chameleon

Your praise rings hollow
Decays
Like carrion

Now away, get away
Your time
It has come

The veil has been lifted
And you
Must run

Beguiling one
You play the sun
But shadows are your way
Wolf in sheep's clothes
Everyone knows
The sinner's not the saint
Beguiling one
You play the sun
But shadows are your way
Wolf in sheep's clothes
Everyone knows
The sinner's not the saint

Image by Angel Luciano (Unsplash)

Beguiler

„Der stumme Zeuge“ erzählt die Geschichte einer Figur, die aus der stillen Beobachterrolle heraus die Brüche einer aus den Fugen geratenen Welt betrachtet: Ungerechtigkeit, soziale Kälte, Machtmissbrauch – all das zieht an ihr vorbei wie Schatten, die niemand beim Namen nennen will. Der Song macht diesen unsichtbaren Beobachter zur Stimme der Mahnung: einer, der alles sieht, aber nicht gehört wird. Eine balladeske Anklage gegen das Wegschauen und die Lethargie einer Gesellschaft, die ihre Zeugen selbst zum Schweigen bringt.

Der stumme Zeuge

Beguiler (update)

Oh it's strange 
How it all turned out
Year in and year out
Same worries wear you out
Is that what you're about?

Locked the door
But did I leave the stove on?
Did I do my job right?
Right enough to stay?

When you came
to me in a dream
What a lovely scene
Pain hit me when I woke
It was just a joke

Locked the door
But did I leave the stove on?
Did I do my job right?
Right enough to stay?

Strange

[For enquiries about my BBC Radio Wales music show, please email my BBC email address... you can easily guess it. Music submissions for the show should be sent via the BBC Introducing Uploader (please). I can't guarantee that I'll see messages sent via Soundcloud - thank you.]

The Immediate are a three-piece indie, power pop band from Mold in north Wales.

We release our Mold EP on Friday 3rd March 2017. The EP will be available to buy on limited edition CD and digitally via bandcamp / iTunes etc.

Mold features 4 brand new recordings, 3 of which are exclusive to the EP.

Lead track, What’s The Matter Kevin Jones?, is a song about some of the kids we went to the Alun School with, who weren’t as fortunate as us and didn’t make it into their 30’s. 

Light Dimensions is the first song we wrote when we reconvened after a long hiatus.

Manbuoy is the title track of our forthcoming debut album, however it does not feature on the album itself. It’s a mostly spoken-word piece that exaggerates all of its writer’s worst qualities.

Mold was recorded at Orange Sound Studios in Penmaenmawr, North Wales by Russ Hayes, who has worked on recordings by Peaness, Campfire Social, Kidsmoke, Catfish and the Bottlemen and Billy Bibby and the Wry Smiles.

The sleeve design was done by Paul Maurice from Wrexham. It’s a detail of Shire Hall, the brutalist former seat of Flintshire County Council that sits on a hill, above Mold town centre.

The Mold EP will be launched at a hometown gig at Theatr Clwyd, Mold on Friday, 3rd. March. We’ll be joined by our friends Campfire Social and Skellums. Tickets are £7 and available here:

https://www.theatrclwyd.com/en/whats-on/headliner-rock-night/

Mold EP tracklisting (r/d 3rd March 2017):

1.	What’s The Matter Kevin Jones?
2.	Light Dimensions
3.	Tremble
4.	Manbuoy

If you have any further enquiries, please contact:

theimmediateband@gmail.com

http://facebook.com/theimmediate
http://twitter.com/the_immediate

There is a YouTube video telling the story of the band so far, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtERsE3ihDg

We originally split in 1997 due to frustration, an argument over a mouth organ and the success of Stereophonics.

We released one single (unaccountably popular in Sweden), made every conceivable mistake in the How To Be A Successful Indie Band handbook, toured with some excellent bands (Mansun, 60ft Dolls, Dodgy) and flickered out, leaving behind the memory of some great gigs, a few fine songs, and little else.

In March 2016, we reconvened to repair friendships and renew tinnitus. New songs came much more easily than the old ones, probably because we are playing to please only ourselves - with no thoughts of success or acclaim - for the first time in our existence.

There is more truth and resonance in our songs now than ever before. And power. And invention. We write songs about hope and love in the face of the moribund, daily grind. 

You will possibly hear fragments and echoes of the following artists in our sound (The Jam, Wire, XTC, Pixies, Badfinger, REM, Dr Feelgood, Small Faces, Husker Du, The Who, Ride, Big Star, The Cure, Joy Formidable, The Go-Betweens, Teenage Fanclub), but nothing has been plagiarised or misappropriated to mask a deficiency of our own ideas.

Journalist, Kommunikationswissenschaftler und - nebenher - Komponist, Texter und Musiker.

Here you will find little acoustic pop songs; melancholy, dreamy-folk things. Sometimes some jangly, fuzzy rock tunes or ambient pieces as well. Work-in-progress demos to finished tracks, informal playlists to official album releases. Enjoy.

I make music sometimes

Music video for Self Doubt:
https://youtu.be/YHK-nza1t2g?si=VIYzylcpj0yesE1m

AMOR*LEBEN*TODO
Music, Mystery, and the Multiverse of Michael Lemmer

Somewhere between a mountain echo and a memory of the future, AMOR*LEBEN*TODO hums.
It’s not just a label — it’s a living signal. A constellation of songs, poems, and visions beamed from the heart of the Rockies into every corner of the cloud.

This SoundCloud page is a crossroads — a place for wanderers and one-offs, sonic sketches and stray transmissions. Here drift fragments of the greater work: folk and funk, dream and data, dub and dawnlight. Every sound is part of a larger conversation — between art and accident, code and spirit, love and the long road home.

Founded by artist-producer Michael Lemmer, AMOR*LEBEN*TODO carries a simple mission: to keep the signal alive. The music, the words, the images — all vibrate from the same pulse. A celebration of life, love, and the strange electric hum that connects it all.

Tune in, drift wide, and listen closely.
Every track is a little transmission from the in-between.

New tracks tagged #Fingerpicking