Thrown into the World

Thrown into the World

Famous philosophers Martin Heidegger and Jean-Paul Sartre both used the term, thrown into the world to describe how humans had no choice of being born and as Sartre said, "Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."

Both philosophers were talking about the struggle that humankind has to go through, just to be human. But, in that struggle, there is a lot of beauty, inspiration, creation, human warmth and connection.

This is what my album is about. The struggle and the beauty of life.

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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 of late, with the massive earthquake a little while back, it stands as a country of unique land forms and a hardy and enduring people.

I've decide to create an imaginary movie of Nepal, and of course I am writing the music for that movie. Who knows, maybe one day someone will make a real movie of Nepal and use my music as the soundtrack.

Here is one track from that coming album, titled In the Garden of Dreams, Kathmandu. You can hear it on my Soundcloud site.

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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 piano is actually a percussion instrument. Hammers hits the strings like a drumstick or brush hits the skins. That's why the two go together so well. Many famous jazz combos have piano and percussion as the basis for their arrangements and settings.

The album contains seven tracks. There's a theme and variation style going on between each track. They all start out with a very similar intro, and move into a reflective and sad style of music.

The tracks are,

1. The Beginning


2. After the Beginning


3. Before the Middle


4. The Middle


5. After the Middle


6. Before the End


7. The End

You can see I love playing with word ideas as well as music.

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