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May 14th, 2024

“Don’t delete anything!” – Simon Ballard, Mute Song Publishing A SHORT NOTE ABOUT DEDICATIONS & TITLES I never sit and make music specifically for people – the music just appears. Then, once the pieces have been decided, and the sequencing of tracks begins, a period of reflective listening enables ideas, images, and people to appear. READ MORE




2024 Leaf Label Releases

April 18th, 2024

MINING – Chimet After a lengthy gestation, and many years in the making, Chimet has already been making waves(!) digitally, but is soon to be available on CD (and in a unique double-LP format) from May 17th. It’s a project involving myself, Craig Kirkpatrick-Whitby, and PJ Davy. Together, we have endeavoured to bring our varied READ MORE




Abreagierung 50°56’01.6″N 0°47’33.4”E + Daylight Music: The Church Tour

March 29th, 2023

Piano. Today is Piano Day. Happy Piano Day. Abreagierung 50°56’01.6″N 0°47’33.4”E is a piano + memorymoog track that now resides within the Piano Day Compilation Vol. 2 alongside some very distinguished artists, including Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Yann Tiersen, Hélène Vogelsinger, and others. This track would have otherwise been homeless had it not been for Nils READ MORE




Making Irrealis

May 27th, 2022

DÉBUT FRIENDSHIP, COLLABORATION, AND THE UNREAL These pieces were made barely moments after recording a piece for another project – caught impulsively, but also on the precipice of velleity from which much of my work seems to emerge. There is a liminality to these proceedings, but on the conclusion of each piece, there seemed an READ MORE




Désinances released on Sähkö Recordings

July 24th, 2021

Désinances is a collection of solo piano pieces taken from two contrasting recording sessions. The first was intended as a set of raw materials made specifically for a collaborative project with Franck Vigroux, and provided the impetus for the making of this album, with the second following on shortly afterwards. Both occasions yielded different musical READ MORE




Bandcamp Bundle + 1674 exclusive Fender Rhodes EP

June 5th, 2020

I hope that you are all keeping well, and have found the opportunity to tune in to all sorts of music these last few months – especially via Bandcamp and their generous gesture of waiving their fees for artists. Aside from today’s enticing all-inclusive bundle on offer from The Leaf Label, I have added a short set READ MORE




Be ready, always: on working with Keith Tippett

April 9th, 2020

ENTÊTE This blog is a mixture of personal reflection, thoughts on process, on how working with Keith Tippett has helped reshape the topography of my piano/performance practice, and deserved praise for the work and pianism of one of the most significant musicians of our time. BACKGROUND Since discovering Keith Tippett’s music (Mujician I, II, III / Dedicated READ MORE




Keeley Forsyth: DEBRIS

January 17th, 2020

There are moments in one’s life that occur only once. Having the chance to collaborate with Keeley Forsyth is, unquestionably, one of the defining moments in my musical life to date. The first time I heard Keeley’s songs, they were impulsive recordings that had been performed directly into a laptop via its built-in microphone – READ MORE




Help the grand piano to stand on its own (four) feet for the very first time

October 6th, 2019

Not so long ago, I visited Sarah Nicolls at her studio in Brighton, and was introduced to her ‘inside out’ piano: a grand piano with its frame and interior displayed on the vertical plane, opposed to the traditional, horizontal position. There are many benefits to such reorganisation – not least for the opportunity to become READ MORE




October Concerts: Mike Westbrook / Keith Tippet

October 4th, 2018

SO… Mike Westbrook’s music changed my way of hearing music when I was a student at Leeds College of Music, and Keith Tippett is the reason I play the piano the way I do. And, if that weren’t enough, I am appearing under their auspices within one week of each other. First up: OCTOBER 6 READ MORE