People Are Guitars
May 11, 2015
Here’s the the title track of that new collection of songs I’ve been banging on about. Hope you enjoy it.
Boy Scouts Never Die
May 4, 2015
Here’s a new track intended for People Are Guitars, the instrumental release I’ve been working on. I think it’s finished but there could be some rearranging to do. Feedback welcomed. The painting is Henry Mosler’s The Lost Cause (1869), on the American Civil War.
Restoration work
A paragraph from David Brazier in Tricycle caught my eye: “And what does that honest looking come up with? What trophies does it glean from the seabed and haul to the surface? Ancient amphoras. The broken pots of our earlier strivings. Shards of self-seeking in myriad forms, now strewn across the bottom of our ocean. Fragments […]
Takagi Masakatsu, Akira Kosemura and the beauty
April 28, 2015
I love Takagi Masakatsu’s music. I don’t know much about him but, as far as I can tell, he travelled the world asking people to sing or play one melody, ‘The Light Song’. Hopeful piano riffs mix with childrens’ choirs, found sounds and scratchy processes. If I could sum up what I know of his […]
Moving house, the not-so-minimalist way
April 23, 2015
Moving house is a time for deciding what to keep and what to throw away. A chance to be minimalist, if only I had the cojones. We’ve decamped from Cornwall and marched on Devon. Now we are faced with many Things To Do, not least of which is deciding which of my faded treasures and […]
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