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Into the home run now on “Distant Journey”. Time Bleeds was a little heavy, and perhaps a little subdued, so I wanted something a bit more upbeat – that said, I started with something inspired by “Someone Else” by Queensryche, but the thing took on it’s own life pretty quickly, and you’d be hard pressed to see any similarity save the piano hook.
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 Consider This... [7:56m]: Download
Something new – got quite heavy in the middle this, though in the end, I’m very pleased with it.
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Time Bleeds [6:53m]: Download
Much snow in this part of the world, gave me time in my office at home, even with putting in a decent days work first – managed a quick song (hopefully, don’t think it sounds like it was put together quickly at all).
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Shape Of Things To Come [05:57m]: Download
New Years day was a GarageBand fest – taken me most of Christmas to summon up the mental energy to start writing something again. Anyways, quite like this:
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A complete cacophony of guitar tracks, nearly burnt my poor old iMac out recording the thing
Ghosts of Mine [6:36m]: Download
It’s taken a while for me to post this – been busy as hell.
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God Is Not Great: Download
Second track from “Distant Journey” and I absolutely loved writing, recording and listening back to this one – sometimes the stuff just seems to flow, you don’t even have to even try very hard – the recording seemed to work pretty much off first bat, the mix was pretty much “as is” and the whole [...]
A Short History Of The Future [5:38m]: Download
I’ve made a start on my new collection. This was going to be the title track, but by the time I’d finished recording, I’d kind of gone off the title – seemed a little, well, contrived – regardless, I’ve left the track name but the collection’s entitled “Distant Journey”. It has a good opener sound [...]
Journey On The Sands Of Time [6:49m]: Download
Absolutely, by far, my favourite Queen song. A total, and utter classic. Brilliant.
Would never be the same without Freddie’s Lyrics, but still, I wanted a warm up before I started a new collection and this was just itching to be done.
So, after a much enjoyed summer hiatus, here’s my latest track.
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Don't Stop Me Now: Download
“Edge Of The World” has been my most difficult production to date. Not much of it has felt fun, I really don’t know why – though I’ve still enjoyed and been quite proud of some of the end result, I’ve had to force production, if that makes any sense – their’s little that’s coming naturally.
I’ve [...]
Last Rights [7:03m]: Download
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Wrath Of A Mad God [7:28m]: Download
This has taken a near month to complete – it’s the first recorded with my new Les Paul standard – it’s taking a while to get it setup properly, and get it sounding as I would prefer – still not quite on par with my vintage, though it’s sure nicer to play!
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Chapter & Verse [6:32m]: Download
A new song – lots of keys in here, that’d have something to do with my new keystation – no longer need I suffer an 1987 casio keyboard through a dodgy Yamaha MIDI-USB lead that required me to sellotape several wires together and offer a prayer before I could get connectivity.
It’s been quite a while [...]
A New Way [6:28m]: Download
I’m reading a fantastic book at the moment, “The Painted Man” – it’s a wonderful fantasy story of a young boy in a world where demons haunt humanity each and every night, and only magic, drawn y the name of “wards”, can protect people from the strange creatures that hunt them. It’s a really enjoyable [...]
The Painted Man [7:57m]: Download
It’s a fact that I recorded and wrote half of this, got frustrated with various technical problems in production, fathomed out solutions for those by recording “The Silence”, then came back to this with a new gusto and managed to pin it down. The problem I was having were down to GarageBand’s rather crap way [...]
Withered Isle [6:34m]: Download
Cover time. This was an absolute bugger to get down, but as all I have of the original is a very ropey, very poor quality mp3 of a live performance – I was very determined.
The various changes in tempo made it an absolute pig to do competently however, and their are at least two “glitches” [...]
The Silence [6:21m]: Download
I upgraded to GarageBand ‘09 this weekend, and it’s a nice incremental improvement. The guitar modelling technology that’s the big new feature is quite neat, though I whilst I found a lot more “reallistic” valve amp sounds using it, i couldn’t quite generate a sound that mixed well into a song, at least, not as [...]
My Naked God [5:09m]: Download
This took a few weeks to finish and dozens of seperate sessions, from a few basic sounds I’d been playing with – suffice to say it turned out very differently to what i had in mind, and incorporates several different moods, themes and intensions – so arguably, it sounds a little bit confused, but the [...]
Fight Back The Fear [6:24m]: Download
New year, new song, new album.
Title track took its inspiration from the picture, which I found first whilst skimming around – and gave me a cover and a title.
I think it has a good vibe, and an interesting melody particuarly the bridge to chorus.
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Edge Of The World [6:13m]: Download
So, 2008 is coming to and end. I’ve finished both Inversions and now, Many Ways To Be. I’m really pleased with both, and they show a progression in style and content I think – my playing is even getting a little better, which is nice.
So here is my last track for Many…., Inexplicable. I wanted [...]
Inexplicable [6:05m]: Download
Cover time – everyone should know where their weaknesses, and their strengths lie – when it comes to my guitar skills, speed is not mine – so in choosing this song as the cover to include in “Many Ways To Be”, i set myself something of a challenge – much of this under-rated album track [...]
Deja Vu [5:04m]: Download
I won’t explain the title, but I stumbled upon the word, and this latest recording on which i was working, seemed to fit the definition well. Enjoy.
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Synaestheisa [7:25m]: Download
Life is just relentless. Funny how the music so often comes out reflecting exactly how each and every day feels at that moment.
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Relentless [5:38m]: Download
It’s been nearly 2 months since I managed to finish anything new. A combination of a very busy time at work, home, and finishing off my Masters degree (now complete, hooray!).
Then when I did get something started, GarageBand decided to screw everything up for me and delete half the tracks I’d created when I thought [...]
More Than Just A moment [6:00m]: Download
This is my latest song, written and recorded on Sunday 21st of September.
I started off with something quite different in mind, but once I got going, it kinda took on a life of its own. It has a nice time-change mid-way through which takes it in a slightly different direction, and as a song of [...]
Infinity Rising [8:49m]: Download
Came together in a couple of hours on a wet, miserable, crap saturday afternoon, that’s supposedly at the tail end of summer, but it might as well be deep mid-winter the way the weather is going.
So I put this together, and it’s a helluva lot more upbeat than I was actually feeling, which is odd [...]
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