The Splendid Splice – some thoughts about music in crisis
2020 is turning out to be the dawning of the Age of Isolation. Musicians who perform and teach are having a tough time. Music is traditionally a social activity, but…
More sounds from behind closed doors
I was looking for something in the Fossil Songs file when I came across this specimen of disposable compositions from early in the millennium, and with plenty of time on…
I remember Aberystwyth
Exiled for almost 6 weeks, with no prospect of returning to the Land of Cymric Mists and Bara Brith for at least a month. So here's a little memory of…
Be careful, or else…
It could happen to you - by me and me, lazing on the deck in the sunshine.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR4fbgqXXGk
Sea fever
This is Nance Wilson singing John Ireland’s setting of the famous John Masefield poem. I’ve reharmonized it for the piano accompaniment. Nance did it in one take on a flying…