Over the last few weeks I’ve been working with Libyan painter Matug Aborawi and filmmaker Tariq Elmeri to realise a video project for Matug’s upcoming exhibition “El Sur y El Sueño&…
“Father, please forgive me – it has been three months, two weeks and three days since my last confession…” I know you’re used to it by now… I am a sporadic blogger …
One of the toughest things to learn to do when composing to order is to translate the concepts, ideas and feelings producers and directors try to convey into an understanding of what it actually is th…
Almost to a man, everyone who records their own music will tell you that the one part of your signal chain you cannot even consider skimping on is monitoring. Unless you can really hear every nuance i…
So, I know I need to do break the back of this unproductive period I’m going through. I’ve been calling it “writer’s block” because, well, because that’s easily und…
So, I’m not even going to apologise. Let’s just get on with this! The last month has been the usual cry of “Lots of writing (or, at least, playing) but little recording!” And…
I’m not even going to say that it’s been over a month since I’ve posted anything here – that’s self-evident and… oh. One of my major problems with writing is develo…
OK, so this week it looks like I’ve failed to record anything worth uploading for you guys to hear… But I haven’t been being (that) lazy, really! After my success last week with my r…
OK, I’ll come straight out with it – it’s not been a particularly productive week. In fact, since I finished the rough guitar sketches for my last post I haven’t done much at a…
I spent a very warm Sunday afternoon in the studio knocking out some very quick sketches of the acoustic-guitar-developed ideas that have been floating around for a while. I thought that having done a…
The fact that my last recorded output was five months ago doesn’t actually mean I haven’t been doing anything at all. It just means I have nothing to show for it right now! But of course I…
