This album is a dream a very long time in the making. After a decade of writing songs as a hobby, the idea of actually pursuing music properly started to seem vaguely possible. And so, over the past few years,…
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Oceans Rising – New song & music video release!
Something that started out as a tune I made up on ukulele whilst in China, gradually evolved into the unique, multi-layered soundscape that exists today…
Error of your ways
‘Error of your ways’ is a song I wrote a long time ago about a particular experience with a particular individual. I’ve been dreaming of how it would sound properly recorded with an awesome saxophone solo for far too long,…
Oh, Coal!
This song is a satirical piece about the Australian government’s unwillingness to let go of coal as our principal source of energy. I was inspired to write this song after getting involved with the non-for-profit Climate for Change, and reading The…
Searching
Pablo and I recorded ‘Searching’ over a span of several months, in Jerez and in Barcelona. Given our very basic recording set up, we were pretty happy with the result, but we thought a music video would give the song…
The Hanging Tree
You may have read or seen The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins? Well, in the third book, Mockingjay, the protagonist, Katniss Everdeen, sings a song from her region called ‘The Hanging Tree.’ It was a song her father…
Why am I doing the whole ‘music thing’ now?
You know the typical story of a creative genius locked into a dead-end job they hate, then one day they just walk into work and announce “I quit! To hell with you all!”? ….Yeah, well that didn’t happen to me.…