Technological Roadblocks, or The Kore Of The Problem?

One problem I regularly face when trying to develop a piece of music is finding the right sounds… This has always been an issue of course, but these days with multi-gigabyte sample libraries and multi-thousand patch ROMplers it’s nigh-on impossible to know every sound available in your library – and that’s before you consider . . . → Read More: Technological Roadblocks, or The Kore Of The Problem?

Mu-ling…

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 all in the studio. So, in order to keep my promise to you, and to myself, I sat down at my . . . → Read More: Mu-ling…

So What Have I Been Working On? Part II

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 medley of the piano ideas, it was only fair to record the guitar ones too. They are very rough – . . . → Read More: So What Have I Been Working On? Part II

So What Have I Been Working On? Part I

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’ve been playing, and writing (if not actually writing down) and as an exercise for myself, and because . . . → Read More: So What Have I Been Working On? Part I

I’ve Started A Blog… Again!

I had my first blog in 1994! I wrote about going through a particularly bad break-up. It was excerpted in the “Funnies” section on the back-page of a the biggest industry magazine in my field… I quit advertising and went to Spain to be a singer shortly afterwards!

Since then, I’ve had blogs on . . . → Read More: I’ve Started A Blog… Again!