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It has been a while since I last posted on the website, but that does not mean that I have not been doing anything. On the contrary, it has been a very active time in which I have worked on…

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

The music goes on in 2026. 2025 was an interesting year in which I began collaborations with AI and discovered SoundCloud. I have had 230,000 plays on this platform in the last 10 months, and as of…

/album/3724066/the-age-of-drifting-and-other-stories

This is an album of individual songs - sometimes with opposite interpretations (Nimby, Yimby; The War on Diminutives, Diminutives are Cool). There are also some with stories which make sense of the lyrics. As always there is a wide…

Here are links to two festive music offerings:

eklektika christmas - an album of songs in different languages and styles, with explanations behind each of the songs.  

LINK:   /album/3655660/lp14-eklektika-christmas

2026 - The Year of Small Repairs - 5 songs to…

Here are links to a new concept song cycle, “Five – The Fifth Season”. This deals with the impact of climate change in general, and in a fictional village called Keltersfeld in the state of Brandenburg, Germany. The songs deal…

Horizon IX is the fourth in the song cycle, Eternal Thresholds. It is the most ambitious work I have released so far and is a progressive rock album set in the future which starts quietly and grows as it…

The third in the set of music under the overall title of “Eternal Thresholds” is now available. The album is called FUTARIA and is a look at the challenges in the world we will face in the future. I can…

Soundcloud Top 40 – September 2025. 112,000 plays in over 50 countries since February 2025

1. Rain – alternative /track/4308405/2-rain-alternative-new-age
2. Not going anywhere /track/4290618/not-going-anywhere
3. Start /track/4249748/start
4. Barking up the wrong tree /track/4292142/barking-up-the-wrong-tree
5. Rain – Russian /track/4308410/15-rain-dance-russian
6. Kreislauf (DE) /track/4299108/kreislauf-des-lebens
7. Rain –…

BRIDGE OF KNOWLEDGE

The previous album release, “The Bridge of Knowledge”, has now had over 6000 plays on Soundcloud over the last three weeks. Surprisingly the song with the most plays is the one in Latin, “ianua et munitio”  (over…

NEW ALBUM: THE BRIDGE OF KNOWLEDGE: /album/3621286/lp10-the-bridge-of-knowledge

THE STORY IN ENGLISH: /files/1366715/The Bridge of Knowledge EN

THE STORY IN GERMAN: /files/1366716/The Bridge of Knowledge DE

A musical story about one man’s quest to find meaning and purpose in life.…

Soundcloud Top 40 - To celebrate almost 100,000 plays in over 50 countries since February 2025, I am providing a Top 40 of my songs with links. I have been both surprised and encouraged by the responses, and how different…

It has been a while since my last post, and during this time I have been very busy with a variety of projects. I have released a lot of new music on SoundCloud, and this is the most motivating place…

Ionian

I am not sure what you will think of all of this! I have been experimenting with AI and have some more releases - the first is an EP called Ionian: the story is all in the files below…

Not just with friends, but also during my working life I have seen so many people move on, and have moved on many times myself. This is a song about moving on - when you get to the point that…

Ex Machina

I have been experimenting with AI and this song is about an AI Companion app - how it can offer you uncritical support. But what happens when the app develops and wants more? Or develops feelings for you…

It's all in the lyrics! Thanks to Melissa McIntosh from Aberdeen for inspiring the theme of the song, and for doing some of the lyrics in Doric - the old traditional language of the region.

Link: /track/4258601/all-the-same

Here is an acoustic version of “In Limbo” which I released recently. It has had a lot of plays particularly on Soundcloud.

I have decided to do some simple versions of some of the songs - they are versions which…

I have only recently started writing and recording songs, and needed help to get started, especially with recording and distribution. When you look for this help you are never sure what will happen and you are quite vulnerable. It did…

He had been driving for hours. The scenery was monotonous and the road was straight with very little traffic. Gradually he felt himself drifting into a daydream state until he felt himself detached from himself. It was as though he…

You have a big secret. As you walk around during the daytime nobody can see it. But the pressure is driving you crazy. You have tried so many times to say something but you are afraid of how others will…

The gong at the beginning represents inner calm - something missing from someone with burnout. In the song there is mention of time and there is a strong connection between time and stress. The beat in the song is a…

Please find below the links to “Storm” which is a single version of the 14 minute long “Ride the Storm”; and a new version of “Bachelor Party” - we realised that the previous version was too slow!

Storm: /track/4192256/storm

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I spent such a long time working in schools, and saw so many children turning into adults and leaving, that I thought the time was right for a song about them - and the people who worked with them. This…

I was interested in this subject after hearing all the things that happen these days on bachelor and bachelorette "events" - and family members Ross and Megan, who have themselves have had plenty of experience themselves and with others agreed…