Almost Composed

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.

Do Nothing Beach

January 20, 2015

How hard it is to do nothing. Before you know what you’re about, you’ve laid down some jazzy chords and improvised a blues riff over the top. So here’s another track intended for People Are Guitars. I was aiming for something like the smooth, bassy tones of Kenny Burrell with a chiming top end. I wanted it to feel […]

Dopamine Dream

December 12, 2014

Here’s a new track, ‘Dopamine Dream’. It’s essentially a five minute guitar solo. I learnt to play guitar during the Britpop years when such monstrous grandstanding was forbidden. A shame really, as the guitar is one of the most expressive instruments there is. Anyway, there’s something to be said for monstrous grandstanding when you’re the […]

The bones of a song

November 14, 2014

Six new Uffmoor Woods Music Club tracks have come along, currently in various states of completion. I like the way Ableton Live enables you to capture ideas quickly that will then become the bones of a song. I’ve been recording melodies and immediately playing along to find accompanying parts while the inspiration is still there. […]

Yorick2300’s remix of The Axe

February 4, 2014

My friend Paul has remixed this lovely minimalist take on ‘The Axe’.