Living

Winter Colors, piano & drums*

An instrumental duet, piano and seven string bass. Experimental, improvisation.

Lovely Picture, duet, piano & bass*

What I've Got in Mind (Duet mit Billie Joe Spears $ Tom Astor

As I remember one of the best car games ever made

Test Drive

An hour of songs in which well-known singers and musicians enjoy making music together and in many cases having hit records as a result.

Duets 1

Duets 2

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Duets 4

Duets 5

A more melancholic drift than usual, maybe a dream of a time when all the venues are closed and the festivals are bankrupt and we rely solely on the buskers. This mixtape includes multiple ‘duets’ created by combining captured fragments of buskers and street music performances (including some Holy Week processions as it seemed timely). I enjoy the idea that these performances were greatly separated by time and space and now hang together in one imagined moment. There’s also some extracts of small improvisations I recently recorded with my long time collaborator Sarah Anderson and some field recordings to build worlds around all of these sounds.

No timeline for this one, but rather just a list of locations and material, but as ever it’s the space created by overlaps that really matters. Enjoy.

April 2025 Contents -

Bilbao Holy Week processions; Improvisations with Sarah Anderson, Walthamstow; Car boot sale, Lewes; Trumpet player, Mexico City; Arc welders, Mumbai; Acapella vocalist, Hong Kong; Oktoberfest choir, Berlin; Mahjong hall, Guangzhou; Muted bridge guitar sketches, Bristol.. and more.

Ghost Duets [ CounterFactualMixtape #3 April 2025 ]

These programmes were all made for HRB, a radio station which broadcasts within the North Hampshire Hospital and on DAB in Basingstoke (https://www.hrbasingstoke.co.uk/). I have also presented programmes on Delta FM and helped set up Valley FM in Orba on the Costa Blanca in Spain. The range of programmes I've made covers 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s, specialist music genres such as Country Music, Smooth Jazz, Love Songs, Comedy Hour and much more.

the weather and the land
guitars, mics, pedals and boxes
in the dust of this planet

New tracks tagged #duets