Looking Back.

I’ve gone all ‘proggy’ and moody with this latest tune. I’ve been doing a little soul-searching lately and have come out the other end a much more well-rounded and happier person, you know, if people could actually program the deep meaning of words such as ‘gratitude’, things would be a whole lot easier (for me anyway). So, to cut a long story short, I’m so wonderfully grateful for my life, my gifts and the people I’ve been blessed to share this latest version of my story with. hope you enjoy the music.

NEW MUSIC…. ‘Free To Fly’.

…We may not be blessed with physical wings, but when we cut out the noise and breathe, we CAN fly. Hope you like the music…

Torn…

Sorry about the lack of arty posts recently, I’ve been very busy with commissions and dealing with personal stuff, thankfully things are getting back on track.

I my have mentioned it before, but aside from my art, I’m also a guitarist. I used to gig regularly with blues/rock/folk bands and every now and again I’ll spend some time in the studio recording. We recorded this one last year sometime. It’s for the incredible Lloyd Sandersons album ‘Left Phase Blue’. The songs were all written by my songwriting partner Peter FitzGerald and myself. feel free to have a listen…

…And here’s a painting of my old Gibson acoustic (just because)

The Chase….

I don’t know why, but I had the overwhelming urge to put a ‘dance’ tune together, hopefully managing to put a little of my own spin on it…

United We Stand…

New music, very much in a ‘world music’ style. My (musical) reaction to events currently taking place in the world…

 

More New Music…

Here are a couple more tracks I’ve been working on lately…

New Music…

    In between everything else going on in my life, I’ve managed to record a few new tunes, I’ll be putting an album together later on in the year, not sure which tracks’ll make the shortlist at this point though… Enjoy.

 

 

 

 

Turn And Face The Sun

My latest recording….I listen to a lot of new age/mike oldfield type of music whilst I work and very much enjoy creating my own stuff, see what you think……..

Eastern Moon… New music.

Anyone for a belly dance?

Reborn…

I’ve been a musician for nearly 25 years now and have had many a great time playing with bands and goofing around in recording studios, nothing beats the thrill of playing live but I’m a 40-something, married father of two young boys and have to confine my musical escapades to sneaky musical doodles on various bits and pieces of software, (until I’m a 50-something old fart who yearns to bring back the good times from his youth by playing in one of those dodgy ‘tribute’ bands or a blues band or something….) nevertheless, it exorcises the music-demons in me and I get to share it with the world on youtube- YAY for youtube… Here’s my latest musical effort, it’s kind of a Gothic/New-Agey/Mike Oldfieldy/Instrumental of sorts…

Art AND Music…

I don’t talk about my musical side very often as this is basically my art and illustration blog, but as it’s for the preview of my new book I thought I’d mention that I’ve recorded a new tune to go along with a few interior pages of ‘Journey Into Faerie’ written by Sally Odgers and Illustrated by me… here it is:

 

http://journeyintofaerie.blogspot.com

moozik….

regulars’ll know I play guitar and the studio’s recently put an album out for Lloyd Sanderson called ‘Left Phase Blue’. Pete (studio owner/entrepreneur/all round good guy) has just put up a music clip of us ratbags playing one of the songs from the album. If you’re intereted, pop over to Lloyd’s site and have a listen. Click on the Youtube player at the bottom of the screen. If you’d like to hear more snippets of the songs, click on the podcast player over to the right of the main page.

http://www.lloydsanderson.com/

Plucking Guitar strings on a new CD….

It’s been quite a while in coming, but the music my pal Pete and I have been working on for Lloyd Sanderson for what seems like years has culminated in a CD at last. If anyone’s interested, swing by and have a listen to a few snippets:

http://www.lloydsanderson.com/

just hit the play button on the media player. Warning: This is old fart’s music, don’t play this if all you like to hear is pop/pap or boomboom music. (laughs). I’m playing guitars on the songs-quick, grab yer’ earplugs! And if you’re still interested after listening to it, there’ll be an unplugged video going up on the page next week some time…

(Above) Here’s the cover art I produced for the CD (I’d like to thank photoshop etcetc..)

Have a great weekend everyone.

Aaron.