The Ensorcelled Crow Release

The Ensorcelled Crow Release

Dear listeners, I bring you a new album - fantasy music of the orchestral and synth variety. This short album is inspired by the tale of a crow which became accidentally enchanted when a confused wizard, having brewed one too many a potion, left his magical reagents...

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Moonbeams in Miniature

Moonbeams in Miniature

When the muse is elusive, I always go back to writing miniatures for solo instruments. Hence this little composition was born. You can grab a free copy over on BANDCAMP https://youtu.be/0thNBtDpwFg

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Confession of a Cubase User

Confession of a Cubase User

Sometimes the thing you think you love is not actually the thing you love 😛 . I've been a Cubase user for a long time, almost as long as I've been making orchestral music using the computer and virtual instruments. Yet I keep falling back into Presonus Studio One,...

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Wet Hands for Violin, Piano, and Synth

Wet Hands for Violin, Piano, and Synth

For a time during my younger years I spent SO many hours playing Minecraft. I was feeling nostalgic and wanted to do a little arrangement of this melody from the soundtrack. This is also incidentally the first time that I'm recording on this particular violin - it's...

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Simple Melody on Fresh Gut

Simple Melody on Fresh Gut

I was playing in some new gut strings with simple melodies and I thought - why not capture some of it? I'm trying a slightly thicker gauge string and I'm liking it so far. Please enjoy this little melody by Mozart 🙂 https://youtu.be/qqxLkFgahfA

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An Improvisation on the Reface DX

An Improvisation on the Reface DX

A machine made for fantasy synth? I've recently welcomed this little synth into my studio - the Yamaha Reface DX. I'm a HUGE lover of FM synthesis and so it just makes me smile every time I play on this thing. I'll be customizing the presets in the coming weeks a bit...

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Observation Arcade – Space Synth

Observation Arcade – Space Synth

A Re-release of an older album Originally released in March 2023, you might be asking “why write a newsletter about it now?”. As it happens, the album art for this work has recently received a facelift, hence my wanting to draw some attention to it 🙂 To provide some...

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Little Dance for Baroque Violin

Little Dance for Baroque Violin

Over the past few years I've composed and arranged quite a volume of pieces for beginner / intermediate string players and I haven't shared much of that at all on my social channels, so I thought maybe it's time. https://youtu.be/qteQt9UzZ3M The Score Feel free to...

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Nascense for Baroque Violin Trio

Nascense for Baroque Violin Trio

I arranged Nascence from the Journey soundtrack for an amateur string ensemble many moons ago, and I thought it might be nice to do a version for violin trio (with harp accompaniment). This recording was done on my baroque violin with raw gut strings. Cheers to Austin...

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Music for the adventure of Thraxoxl

Music for the adventure of Thraxoxl

Greetings all! There is an adventure afoot… Thraxoxl, the Lizardfolk Paladin is about to embark on a dangerous quest and this album is his soundtrack. I’d like to invite you to my Bandcamp page to have a listen 🙂 . If you prefer Spotify then you’ll find that link...

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Fantasy Ambient Music for Violin & Tagelharpa

Fantasy Ambient Music for Violin & Tagelharpa

A simple duet for violin and tagelharpa - it’s another track from my current album project which is rapidly approaching its conclusion. I don’t know about you, but I like how the strident quality of the violin compliments the lamenting voice of the tagelharpa 🙂 ,...

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