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I’m happy to report that my “Delicate” guitar tracks will soon be appearing on a Focus music release, as part of an album with the same name, it appears. I’ll post a link to this when one becomes available.

I’ve just finished a month of occasional recording sessions for the soundtrack for the upcoming “Hatton Garden Job” film, courtesy of Bob and Barn. Thanks chaps!

I’m pleased to say that my “Acoustic Kitchen” album is now scheduled for release with DeWolfe in the next month or two and that a couple of co-written tracks will also be out soon on a Universal album “Oddball Songs”. My thanks to Ben Somers for these latter ones.

 

My Swamp Sessions album is now up on the DeWolfe website, I am very happy to report.

 

My “Acoustic Kitchen” album is now well on the way to completion and is set for release with DeWolfe later in the year, I am very happy to say.

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I’m very happy to have been part of the recording sessions for the soundtrack to the upcoming Guerilla games release RIGS. It looks spectacular from the trailers I’ve seen and all of the guitar playing and most of the bass is me, along with a spot of saz and bouzouki.

Thanks to Bob and Barn for this!

It looks as though, at least some of, my national anthem tracks will be out with Focusmusic in time for the summer olympics, I am happy to report.

 

15 tracks of swampy goodness are now set for release by DeWolfe. Since this album’s  inception, at the end of last year, I’ve acquired a cigar box guitar, got some harmonica playing down and built and recorded a washtub bass. The final album features about 16 different instruments, along with miscellaneous percussion, and I’m proud to say, is 100% me.

 

That was a quick turnaround! The final recording sessions were only a few days ago and now it’s on air…..The latest episode of Dispatches, about air pollution features guitar by me. My thanks to Bob and Barn for asking me to take part in this.

It looks as though the tracks from my “Delicate Guitar” ep are going to be released by Focus Music later on in the year, I am happy to report. I’m quite pleased with these tunes, now that I listen back to them. Some time infront of Wavelab doing edits is now called for…

I’m making progress with an album of “swamp” music, destined for DeWolfe, at present. A page dedicated to the album is here and I hope to have my first major draft of tunes completed in a week or so. I’ve built a washtub bass and got myself a cigar box guitar and these tunes are turning out to be raw and rootsy.

I’m putting in some studio time with film and T.V. composers Bob and Barn at the moment, working on an episode of “Dispatches”, which is to air in the next few weeks, and on a short film, shot in Paris. It’s good to be back infront of the Neumann, in their delightfully retro-carpeted studio.

I’m happy to say that some of my music has recently featured in episodes of the excellent R4 series “Natural Histories”. Snakes and giant squid come to mind….

I’ve just started working on an album of acoustic Americana for DeWolfe. It’s going to feature acoustic guitars of various shades, banjos, dobro, resophonic guitar, mandolin, harmonica, cigar box guitar and maybe some appalachian dulcimer and banjo-lele. Something will appear in the “current projects” once I’ve got a few tracks recorded.

 

I’ve finally got round to starting my long planned gypsy jazz project. I’m going to be recording a selection of tracks that typify the most important tunes and styles in the gypsy jazz repertoire. There will be swing tunes or course, but also later more bop tracks, a waltz or two and perhaps something along the lines of one of Django’s solo guitar improvisations. I’m going for a fairly vintage sound and I might do some real old school mixes, but I’ve also got a couple of ideas for electro swing remixes of some of these tracks.

There is a more detailed page here.

 

 

 

Some real progress is being made with this album now, and we should be pitching it to potential publishers in a couple of weeks’ time.

Fingers crossed…

 

I’ve got about half an album’s worth of tracks for this project now. Time to look for a publisher….

More information can be found in the “current projects” section of the site.

 

I’ve been making some good progress with this project in the past week or two. There will be tracks for those “busy cooking” scenes, something to go with more exotic cuisine and tension building underscores. A musical toolkit for the kitchen, with acoustic instruments, played live, and percussion built up from kitchen appliances and utensils.

…in progress as you read this; light, carefree melodies, underscores and stings – wrapped around a core of acoustic guitar.

 

My idea started with an eight bar chord progression that I was messing around with on the guitar one day. I took the chords, split up the voices, mixed them around and, quite strictly, kept to this as the harmonic basis for the whole album.

Consequently, it’s got a coherence about it that I really like, despite the tracks all being very different from one another. I’ve kept everything very “organic”; no synths or samples.

At present, I’m quite pleased with this one- just looking for a publisher….

There are some audio clips to be found under the “current projects” menu heading.

 

I’m happy to hear that tracks from Pete Newman Clarinet Project featured on Tom Robinson’s BBC Introducing Mixtape recently on Radio 6.  I realise that the BBC link below may expire soon, but here it is for the time being…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b053lbjf

I’m pleased to say that it looks as though a couple of tracks are going to feature on an upcoming Universal album release. Recorded last year, tweaked a bit this year and probably not to see the metaphorical light of day for a good couple of months- such is the prolonged nascence of production music tracks.

I was quite busy a few months ago with sessions for Universal’s recently released World of Animation album. Lots of variety for me on these sessions and I’m grateful, as ever, to Bob and Barn for the job!

It seems that the Freakonomics podcats (that was a serendipitous typo that I decided to keep) really like their gypsy jazz. Another track of mine has cropped up on a recent episode; interesting radio, good music!