A guitar arpeggio-driven plea not to give-up, but rather "keep-on-keeping-on". A song of encouragement. Written for my daughter who at the time was going through some personal turmoil.

The Sum Of All Parts

Live (To Fight) Another Day

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Who is Jude?  I love his explanation of who he is.
     He gives us his Personal Identity.  He is Jude.
     He gives us his Spiritual Identity.  He is a bond-servant of Jesus Christ.
     He gives us his Social Identity.  He is the brother of James.
     I think the order he gives tells us a lot about him as well.
     Personal Identity, comes first, Spiritual Identity comes second, and Social Identity comes third.
     Although worldly people would have you believe otherwise, our social relationships are not nearly as important as our spiritual relationship.
     In eternal value, our relationships on earth are not nearly as important as our relationship to Jesus, and our social relationships can never be as wonderful as they could be if our relationship with Jesus is not what it should be.
     Jude identifies as a bond-servant of Christ.  This message is about what that means.

Jude

Who Are You?

Who Are You

Track List:
Avicii x Hairitage Remix - Addicted To You.mp3
Disco Lines x Aych x Anon Flip - No Broke Boys.mp3
ASAP Ferg x Phrva - Shabba.mp3
Glass Animals - Tokyo Drifting.mp3
Tape B - Backspin Bass.mp3
DETRE x STVSH - RIPFlipper.mp3
Doechii x Whethan Remix - Nissan.mp3
Skrille x BareNoize x TapeB - Scatta.mp3
Kendrick Lamar x TapeB - Bitch Dont Kill My Vibe.mp3
Surfteam (Esseks x TiedyeKy) - SURF.mp3
Zeds Dead x TrollPhace - Lost You.mp3
Creed x Atliens - Six Feet Down.mp3

Now That's What I Call Wubs Vol. 1

An upbeat love-song to my step-son, Henri, whom I am very close to, and who also sings on the track. I sing the first verse, chorus and middle eight (about him); he sings the second verse and chorus (about me). If not quite the "black sheep" of our respective families, we are most definitely "lesser loved sons" in the eyes of our respective (biological) parents  -- which makes it GREAT that we have enjoyed the opportunity to choose for each other in our artificial, extended family.

Vocals: Hendrik "Henk" Kleinsmiede (first half); Henri von Medhursten (second half)
Vocal Harmonies: Hendrik "Henk" Kleinsmiede
Drums: Max Saidi
Bass: Dan Giles
Guitars: Nicky V; Will Manwaring; Hendrik "Henk" Kleinsmiede 

Written by: Hendrik "Henk" Kleinsmiede
Produced (mixed and mastered) by Will Manwaring.

Family Portraits (Volume II)

Lesser Loved Sons

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Much like the novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez which inspired the title of the song ("Love in the Time of Cholera"), "Love in a time of Contagion" examines the apparent paradox of love during the current Corona-virus/COVID-19 pandemic: on the one hand, fear amplifies the already human need for proximity, touch and love; on the other, reaching for it -- across social distancing measures -- might be the very thing that compromises you or your loved one.  But just as the pandemic has changed all our lives, behaviours and perceptions, so might it change our understanding of love. Here, it's love that finally triumphs.

My kids live away from me. In writing this song, I thought predominantly about them, with all my love.

Stay safe out there!

Love In A Time Of Contagion

A ballad lamenting a universal theme amongst divorced parents: when one parent attempts to "weaponise" the children by recruiting them to their side.

Family Portraits (Volume III)

The One Thing (You Said You Would Never Do)

An upbeat, jangly, love song to my 19 year-old daughter.

Father's Day

Love song to my step-son Henri, who I am close to, and who I love to "geek out" with about technology.

An upbeat. electronic dance song on the theme of embracing digitisation as a next logical step in our human evolution.

Digital Migrants

A love song to the handful of "Waifs-and-Strays" children I have unofficially "adopted" over the years. Mostly children of long-standing friends, they are now mostly adults, and we have become friends in our own right.

Here's to my much loved "waifs-and-strays": Louie Whiteley-Waite; Anna Farthing; Little Will Bullock; Will Manwaring; Nia Samuel; with much love. xxx

Waifs-and-Strays

A guitar driven, mid tempo love song to a favourite French niece of mine.

Family Portraits Volume III

The Most Beautiful Girl in the World

A guitar jangle driven ode to the love of football.

It always surprises me when people tell me that another sport is superior. I get this from rugby-loving friends and family sometimes. To me the question is incongruous because the reason most people love the sports they do is really quite arbitrary: because they grew up with them. Place is another determining factor. My nephew Arthur is a Cornishman; another nephew, Cedric (who inspired me to write this song and to whom it is dedicated) is Norman. They both love rugby. I  love football. Being half-Dutch, half-British and living in London, I guess there is a certain inevitability to my love of football.

Now That's What I Call Wubs Vol. 1

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