Almost Composed

Meditation and curiosity

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 […]

categories: essays, music, reflections

Sea music: foreword to a poetry pamphlet

April 2, 2015

I’m hoping to send our new poetry pamphlet to the printers this weekend. It’s the second collaboration between myself and poets Joe Franklin and Hugh Greasley. To whet your appetite, here’s a draft of the foreword: Sea music Ted Hughes once said that if the reason we travelled to the coast during our holidays was to relax, […]

categories: essays, poems, reflections

Sharing the love

March 27, 2015

I’ve made all Uffmoor Woods Music Club tracks free to download at soundcloud.com/uffmoor. If you’re not familiar with the back catalogue, a good place to start is 2006’s Love in the Time of Cannibals. Enjoy!

categories: music

Surf’s Down

March 17, 2015

Here’s a new, minimal, instrumental piece. Distorted chords crash on a misty beach while an echoing lead line finds its way around the clifftops.

categories: music

Narcissus Looks Again

March 11, 2015

The pond was deeper than expected, a giant footprint stamped into the earth. It was home to a fifty-pound ghost koi called Persephone. Music became silence, became music again. Moonlight shone on the tiles. Persephone broke the water with her tail. Now gaunt and middle-aged, I saw the moon glint on water like a ten pence coin, miles down, and […]

categories: poems
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