Seashell Jam
OK! Every part of this track is from the amazing hybrid desktop synth that is the Instruo Seashell . Reciorded into Pro Tools and featuring the Erica Synths Black Sequencer plus various fx – Wellspring and Nightverb reverbs and a little Mikron Delay Lots of fun to do – and the Seasherll is definitely a […]
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Instruo Seashell – wow!
Just wow! My first outing with the amazing analogue hybrid Instruo Seashell. Running Erica Synths Black Sequencer, several passes with the Seashell including triggering from Instruo Pocket Scion. Effects include Wellspring reverb, Mikron Delay, Sound Toys Spaceblender.
Meditation for Aeonium and synthesizers
My first outing with the Instruo Pocket Scion connected to an Aeonium succulent – Aeonium even sounds like a musical instrument! Here it is playing nicely with Mutable Insrtuments Rings in my modular rack plus Artutria Pigments and Waldorf Nave wavetable synth. Effects include Wellspring (of course!) and a touch of Sound Toys Spaceblender.
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 […]
Lublin Pingable VCA
Really liking the Xaoc Devices Lublin pingable VCA. Here we have two passes of switched sequences, with the AJH/Tone Science Chance Delay and of coursed the wonderful Wellspring!
Patience And Shuffle The Cards – album reviews
Wonderful review from Neil Mason in Moonbuilding Weekly – Issue 74 (Substack): And also nice review in this month’s Electronic Sound: And here is a taster – the opening track:
Patience And Shuffle The Cards – New Album
Release date: July 25th – CD in digipack + Bandcamp downloads and streaming services I first came across the phrase Patience And Shuffle The Cards in the diaries of Sir Walter Scott, although I later learned that it originates in Don Quixote. It is a sort of resigned ‘well, let’s see what happens’ where the […]
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 […]
Creeping Thanatos
Just one week to go to the release of my new album – available for pre-order here: Patience And Shuffle The Cards I don’t like this ‘getting old’ business . . . when mortality comes into sharper focus and you realise that things that you remember clearly, actually happened decades ago . . . and […]