The Whore

The Whore

Reading Time: < 1 minutes This is the first track from the next project – A Walk on Part. I know, I should be finishing what I am doing already, but I was messing about with some ideas and the track kind of fell together to the Lyrics I had 

Storm is Coming

Storm is Coming

Reading Time: < 1 minutes This is a taster of something I am working on. Inspired by techno, orchestral metal and Hans Zimmer, creating some pretty intense soudtrack inspired pieces. This started from messing about the explore the sounds in Spitfire’s Iceni Library and went from there. Christian Bodden · 

The Hearse Song

The Hearse Song

Reading Time: < 1 minutes I had been minded for a while to work on a version of this song. I am not quite sure where/when it entered my head, and it took me a while to think back and actually locate what the song actually is (via The Pogue’s 

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.

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 

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