Recordings taken from The Music System on C64 (Piano and Percussion at different speeds) and my guitar (using a pain of scissors on the strings instead of a pick). Tracks were then put through Audacity to add reverb. One of the instruments is reversed.

a place to be

you never fail 
my swallowtail
sitting so sweet in the palm of my hand

to make me feel safe 
and fill me with grace
wings as pale as the sun on the sand

merry and bright
my cabbage white
freshly steamed milk of the moonlight

for you are the morning, the noon and the night

leaving so soon
my holly blue
gently you flew to the ends of the day

fleeting time passing through
as cold evening dew
a mellow reminder of your once warm breath of rain

(lalalalala)

snail shell swirl
mother of pearl
locked like a curl round my finger so tight

though i love you so
you're losing your glow
why do you have to let go

but we'll never be
so i'll set you free
up to the clouds so high

for you are the earth and the sea and the sky

and you were more beautiful when you could fly

the lepidopterist

Spoon

down the winding road
to where the sky meets the land
i found a lonely pilgrim
looking for a merry band

i bid them on their way
as they cast off from the bay
with hope in hand
the hungry tide laps up
their footprints from the sand

whistling as i wonder
laughing with the birds
with a spinning wheel and thread
i'll weave them into words

i'll collect up all my sorrows
a big bright beautiful blue
glue them all together
make them into something new

and when the spring rain
washes away
all the smiles i traced
onto the window pane

when the sun comes up
to fill my cup
christening the day
it's alright

because every cold night ends
with warmth on the horizon

and as the sky cracks
and breaks into the sea
i will love you

your tears dull as diamonds
graze my cheeks
i'll still care

i'll write a million songs
until there's no more words to speak
and i'll scream until
there is nothing left

and i will love you
i will love you

until the end

until the end (demo)

I'm going to use Soundcloud as a place to put work in progress, not finished release ready, but thoughts. Feedback is welcome especially on ideas you hear or imagine could happen in the music. This one is the thawing of frozen water, biodata collected as it warms. The midi accelerated as the water melted.
Additional instruments built from acoustic sounds recorded through the ice.

Frozen Water Mic

scarecrow

embers

Cheshire - Carl Turney & Brian Campbell
West Sussex - Otis Jordan

Ceremonial County Series Vol.I - West Sussex | Cheshire

My take on an old lullaby written for Queen Elizabeth I

Weep you no more

The Brain That Wouldn't Try

Robert Pollard on vocals and Tobin Sprout on piano. The original track is higher than natural pitch. This is an attempt to get it back to normal speed.

Guided By Voices - Universal Nurse Finger (pitch shifted)

Capturing song fragments and lo-fi experiments on old cassette machines in the tiny back bedroom of a scarborough terraced house. 

Debut EP Back Down Woe Betide Ravine out now on bandcamp!

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