A Soundcloud playlist featuring music that I've been involved in this last year:
Tuesday, 20 December 2016
Monday, 12 December 2016
The Affect
Please enjoy this lyric video for the "The High" taken from forthcoming release by the Affect (yours truly, Matthew Richards and James Hope)
Stream of consciousness meets atmospheric beat laden urban soundscapes:
Stream of consciousness meets atmospheric beat laden urban soundscapes:
Monday, 5 December 2016
Porcupine Tree T- Shirt Pre-Order
A new collection of Porcupine Tree t-shirts are available to pre-order for release on 9th December. The t-shirt designs available as part of this first collection are John Foxx's artwork for Lightbulb Sun and Lasse Hoile's artwork for In Absentia and Fear of a Blank Planet.
UK/Europe pre-order - https://
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Saturday, 5 November 2016
Twinscapes Live in Italy
See below, I am very much looking forward playing with Roberto Gualdi and Lorenzo Feliciati again for three upcoming dates with Twinscapes this month:
Violinist Andrea Bassato will be joining us for the date on the 25th.
Tuesday, 18 October 2016
Tuesday, 13 September 2016
Ex-Wise Heads - "Everything is Hear"
The very first Ex-Wise Heads recordings are now available in download format from here.
Dating from early 1998, and, saving a single overdub, recorded completely live to a four track cassette machine. Subsequently the material was digitally mixed and mastered by Geoff Leigh, with the assistance of Paul Mex.
"Everything is Hear" was recorded sometime after Geoff Leigh and I first started improvising and composing together as a duo and features Julian Franks on an array of Middle Eastern and Indian percussion (tablas, djembe and darabuka.) who had joined us for our first few live gigs.
Although this line up performed live a few times, these are the only recordings featuring Julian, as he moved on soon after and was replaced by Vincent Salzfaas, who had a much more African oriented percussion approach. We went on to record two albums, ("No Grey Matter" and "Time and Emotion Study") with Vincent, before exploring more electronic elements and settling into a "duo with guests" format.
Some of the material here was reworked for the subsequent debut album "No Grey Matter" but it's certainly different enough from those later recordings.
"Everything is Hear" is certainly raw, eccentric perhaps and maybe even a bit primitive, and it was never meant as an album proper, but it has an energy, directness and character of it's own and listening from a distance of 18 years, I think it has aged well….
Follow this link to get the Burning Shed Edition of "Everything is Hear" on CDR
Dating from early 1998, and, saving a single overdub, recorded completely live to a four track cassette machine. Subsequently the material was digitally mixed and mastered by Geoff Leigh, with the assistance of Paul Mex.
"Everything is Hear" was recorded sometime after Geoff Leigh and I first started improvising and composing together as a duo and features Julian Franks on an array of Middle Eastern and Indian percussion (tablas, djembe and darabuka.) who had joined us for our first few live gigs.
Although this line up performed live a few times, these are the only recordings featuring Julian, as he moved on soon after and was replaced by Vincent Salzfaas, who had a much more African oriented percussion approach. We went on to record two albums, ("No Grey Matter" and "Time and Emotion Study") with Vincent, before exploring more electronic elements and settling into a "duo with guests" format.
Some of the material here was reworked for the subsequent debut album "No Grey Matter" but it's certainly different enough from those later recordings.
"Everything is Hear" is certainly raw, eccentric perhaps and maybe even a bit primitive, and it was never meant as an album proper, but it has an energy, directness and character of it's own and listening from a distance of 18 years, I think it has aged well….
Follow this link to get the Burning Shed Edition of "Everything is Hear" on CDR
Wednesday, 7 September 2016
Obake - "Draugr" Preview track, Tracklisting and Cover Image
Cover image by Petulia Mattioli
- Cold Facts
- Incineration Of Sorrows
- Hellfaced
- The Augur
- Appeasing The Apparition
- Serving The Alibi
- Cloud Of Liars
- Immutable
- Draugr
- Draugr (Leon Switch Remix)
"Draugr" is due a late October release on Rarenoise, first preview to be released is the track "Appeasing the Apparition" which you can hear below:
..more news to follow…..
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