Brian Wilson Concert

Just got 2 tickets for the Brian Wilson concert in London in September - can't wait!! Easily one of the greatest composers of our generation, his recent albums "Smile", "Lucky Old Sun" and "Gershwin Reimagined" are simply outstanding. Even though I compose instrumental music and space music, Brian's influence on my music has been quite profound, and his music has been a part of my life since I was just 12 years old. Rock on..................

Trinity Project gets off the ground at last!!

After a lot of delays caused by outside distractions, Neil and I finally managed to spend a productive evening in the studio and compose 15 minutes of music for the "new age" project we're doing "Music for Angels", and the track, titled "Lazy Heaven" is a great start. Definitely has strong space music overtones with a great feel, so we're very pleased by the start we've made.

There was some gentle ribbing and amusement to begin with, (and several cups of strong coffee!) as I managed to totally mess up my studio midi settings - it's been over seven years since I last set up all the external synths for simultaneous multi-recording. But we were soon up and running and and by midnight we had a pretty nice track.

More news to follow as the album progresses.

Sci fi soundtrack for Matt Howarth story - update

I received the first draft of Matt Howarth's sci-fi story, and an enjoyable read it is too! Plenty of ideas for music and titles and I will be starting work on that soon. Maybe I will perform some of the ideas at the up and coming Schallwelle Music awards in March, we shall see. I'm not going to give away anything at the moment, aside from saying its about an earth colony on a far off world in the future, mans first colony in fact. That's all I'm gonna say for now and I'm looking forward to putting together an evocative and descriptive space music soundtrack to accompany the book, which will be on the CD as an e-book/pdf. More details to follow................

New Code Indigo album?

I keep being asked; "When will the next Code Indigo album be released"?
Truth is, I don't know! But I'm really hoping it'll be end of 2011 early 2012. We're hoping to get together during 2011 to start recording instrumental music for an album that already has at title; "A Different Colour", but as yet has no defined theme or direction, mainly because it is still very much in early development. And all Code Indigo albums have always had a fair amount of discussion on theme and direction before the music really got going. And even then, things tended to change.

Biggest problem is that band members are spread around the UK doing many other space music projects, and while we all really do enjoy working together as Code Indigo, sometime the practicalities of meeting up just get in the way.

So the plan is to get together during the early part of the year, which we've got to do anyway to prepare for the Bungay Bash, and get things moving. Hopefully something will be on the go soon, and we'll have good news for the Code Indigo fans with withdrawal symptoms!

For those who may not have been aware, there is an exclusive Code Indigo track "Gaia" on the 2009 elive sampler, available from Groove, plus an exclusive remix of the awesome "Eden to Chaos" from Timecode.

Just a Illusion on YouTube

Great instrumental music video to of "Just an Illusion" just been been posted to YouTube. The guy zrnho certainly know how to make great space music videos.

Welcome to my blog

Going to attempt to write a daily blog - not sure how successful that will be, but I'll give it a go. Set this blog up a while ago so about time I made use of it. I'll probably expand a little on items the are feature on the AD blog that are relevant to me, and will do some product reviews on items used in the studio. Of course, I'll also talk about music in progress. See you later..........