In Progress
People who know me well, know that the music never stops really. There’s always something that I’m pursuing towards the next song or the next instrumental, whether that’s learning a new plugin, getting to grips with a new piece of recording equipment, just practicing a tricky new piece of music ready to record or play live, or simply just all of the above.
On the recording front, I’ve been putting together the next new release, which is a compilation of four songs from the partnership with my friend, the late John Ward Helliwell. These are very near finished now, just some sleeve notes and visuals to sign off with John’s family, and to release them out into the world as an EP.
John wrote the words in the late 80s, when we both worked in Huddersfield, and we used to commute to town on the same bus from our digs near Denby Dale. Here our discussions began about music and my songs in progress, and it was here that he offered to take on some of my more ‘difficult’ pieces.
The saddest part of this though, is that I can’t talk to John and include his version of events on the sleeve notes, and perhaps gain more insight into the deeper meanings behind each of the songs he wrote. I have interpreted them, of course, when I came up with the music, and so they stand up for themselves, to some extent, but it would have been good to hear his back-story also.
Coming very very soon…
