Foxtrot Oscar Uniform Romeo

Badajoz

Experimenting with a more distorted, rocky sound.  Created in Ableton Live.

Sodium Lightstream

'Happiness is anything that's opposed to discord.'  Discuss.

Sample is from a Tony Schwartz interview.

Happiness Number 4

It's 1981 all over again.  What do all these little buttons do?

Little Plastic Buttons

I woke up one day with the main theme in my head, and it went from there.

I Am Here to Share the Load

Richard Nixon's inaugural speech from 1969 is eerily applicable more than half a century later,  The need to lower our voices so that we can hear each other’s words is greater than ever; sadly Tricky Dicky's exhortation was no more successful than the rest of his presidency.

Standing in This Same Place

Light and Architecture

To a crisis of the spirit, we need an answer of the spirit.  But to find that answer, do we need only look within ourselves?

Still Standing (Part 2)

Which is more important, the music or the words?

Sample is from interviews by Tony Schwartz. The interviewee here is his wife.

Words and Music

The Difficult Second Album

Lean Burn

You were put here to protect us.
But who protects us from you?

--- KRS-One

Foxtrot Oscar, Uniform Romeo

Push on through

An elegy, in a way - written to help me process various losses and setbacks.  It’s a sad piece but with moments of hope.

The Quietus

I'd never dream of comparing music to that of the late and much missed Mark Hollis, but sometimes you can kind of tell what I've been listening to lately.

The vocal sample is from a Tony Schwartz interview with a young man who had just been to Woodstock.  It was made available via the Library of Congress's Citizen DJ programme.

Nirvana/Satori

Firmly in the ‘what genre is this?’ genre. Progressive electronica?  Is that a thing?

I only write music to please myself and as background music for videos, and I’m sure it’s terrible in all the usual ways.

Vinyl Silk

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