Saturday, 21 May 2016

Nepal

Nepal 100% of all profits generated from this album will go to Oxfarm Earthquake Devastates Nepal Appeal www.oxfam.org.au/my/donate/earthquake-devastates-nepal/ I've long had a fascination with Nepal. Snuggled between India and China, it's a land of serene beauty, and an amazing multicultural, multi religious, and multilingual country. But it's the incredible landscape that gets me. Even though they have been through a very hard time...

Sunday, 1 May 2016

Songs of the Madman

Songs of the Madman Before I began writing my Songs of the Madman album, I’d always known how much I was pulled towards creating music as a concept. To begin with an abstract idea, then to shape it into something solid and unique, which has form and substance, fits my idea and love of storytelling through music. Some of the greatest music we know has come from a concept formed into something concrete. And not just in popular music...

Wednesday, 13 April 2016

— Emily

— Emily Emily Dickinson. I doubt there would be many people who loved poetry, who didn't know the name of Emily Dickinson. In the art world, she was like no other. Her life, her poetry, her words fit in my ear with a form of unique perfection. As amazing as her beautiful short poems are, what is equally amazing is she lived through the American Civil War and wrote these amazing creations. Obviously, I am in love with Emily, so how could I...

Tuesday, 12 April 2016

From the Beginning to the End

From the Beginning to the End On quite a few of my songs, I have collaborated with an amazing percussionist from Germany, Yatziv Caspi. He has a fresh and unique style, and from the picture above, you will see he is quite diverse in his voice and type of percussion instruments he chooses. We are collaborating on an album of piano and percussion music. It will be released in May 2016. You can listen to one of the tracks, Before the Middle. The...