Last Night [Requiem Ensanglanté Demo]

Last Night [Requiem Ensanglanté Demo]

Reading Time: 2 minutes Last night was first a 15-minute wait in the pissing rain… For a 3-mile journey on a number 19 bus… To a party in a house nobody knew… And probably shouldn’t go to anyway… …The bible in my pocket and a bottle in my hand… 

Bridgerton

Bridgerton

Reading Time: < 1 minutes This is my entry for the #MyBridgertonScore competition by Spitfire Audio. This is the first time I have ever scored to a preexisiting video and has been quite an experience! There’s a lot I would do different next time, but at least I have done 

Battle March of The Cyborgs

Battle March of The Cyborgs

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Just finished this. It’s synthwave, with Orchestral elements.  This is how I see the Cyborg XG-44E stuff progressing. Christian Bodden · The Battle March Of The Cyborgs That’s all for now.

Manuel Segura Francesci

Manuel Segura Francesci

Reading Time: 2 minutes This is my Father’s old Classical Guitar – he has had this as long as I can remember and I have taken care of it as we are clearing and managing some of his goods. The label inside contains the following: Manuel SeguraFabb. GuitarreRoma E 

Experiments in Scoring

Experiments in Scoring

Reading Time: 2 minutes I’ve been working for a while with the amazing BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover from Spitfire Audio in some of my tracks lately. For those of you who have not encountered this, Spitfire are a company who produce deep sampled libraries aimed predominatly at film scoring 

Portable Studio

Portable Studio

Reading Time: 2 minutes If there’s one good thing to come out of all this, it’s been quite a surge in and reduced software. Native instruments, IK Multimeda to name a couple of have given away some good stuff and Ableton have chopped a massive 40% off the price. 

Neutron Storm

Neutron Storm

Reading Time: 3 minutes So, for a change I decided not to buy a guitar, much to the amazement of my partner and my son. For many many years, any spare cash I had was religiously spent on synthesisers, and this Christmas I decided to revive that great tradition. 

So Tell Us…

So Tell Us…

Reading Time: 6 minutes So tell us about this new project then? I started writing this about 20 odd years ago – I guess quite a lot was the standard teenage/early 20s angst type stuff – it was all based around leaving Cambridge and moving up to Leeds, growing 

Feast of Fools

Feast of Fools

Reading Time: 2 minutes Laughing, shouting, screaming, pouting,Spinning, wheeling, double-dealing,Up and down and in and out,Nameless faces, I can’t count,Dancing, prancing, dicing, chancing,Running, jumping, leaping, bumping,Never stopping, never dropping,Going on and on and on,This is all my life is for,Had enough and still need more,This is all I’m going 

21st Century Carol

21st Century Carol

Reading Time: < 1 minutes So. It’s here. It’s been a pretty chaotic few weeks, what with Christmas preparations, work exhaustion, my heating breaking down and various other general life issues, but I have actually done it. 21st Century Carol by Requiem Ensanglanté I came up with a weird idea 

Hometown (The Soil That Grew Me)

Hometown (The Soil That Grew Me)

Reading Time: 2 minutes For 50 square miles she lies spread out before me,Like a dog to her master, this city’s enslaved me,High on the hills I see the lights all around me,I wish when I spoke, that this town could hear me, Home town. In the shadow of 

Goodbye

Goodbye

Reading Time: 2 minutes You wrote your life upon the pages,Of a book no one has read,You dreamed your dreams upon the stage,Of a theatre in your head.Farewell your life in the dusty streets,Of a town you used to call your home,The dead-end streets that gave to you,All you’ve