Folktronica – something a little different . . .
I had been working on some instrumentals based on Scottish folk tunes – just love pentatonic stuff! Then singer/ Songwriter Helen McCookerybook, with whom I had worked on The Cutty Wren heard these and volunteered to add vocals . . .but opted to sing these in Gaelic! So the genre ‘Synthecosse’ was born! The two […]
Stone Soup
Often tracks begin with a simple sequence which only gradually takes form with the addition of other elements – the title refers to the folk tale where a traveller arrives in a village with no food but just a cooking pot and a stone. Villages intrigued as to what dish he would produce simply boiling […]
Just two weeks to go . . .
. . . until the release date of my album Patience And Shuffle The Cards – on CD, download and streaming – and available to pre-order. So, here is track seven: Sometimes it feels a little strange to be tucked away in my room surrounded by synths indulging myself in music production when there is […]