David Wright and Bekki Williams collaboration

Bekki Williams and I have at last talked seriously about a space music collaboration! I'm often asked by fans why we haven't done this before, and it's only because we're both busy with other projects - not to mention "Life".

Not going to give a time frame yet, but it now looks very likely that there will be a David Wright and Bekki Williams instrumental music album at some point in the future.

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.

New David Wright studio set up

For those who are interested in such things, here are a few pics taken last night of the newly streamlined planet studio.

In Search of Silence CD for 2011 release

With a number of instrumental music projects already on the go for 2011, pleased to report that my next studio album is going to be called "In Search of Silence". It's actually inspired a quite stunning photograph I saw last year, and when the license has been approved for its use, I'll upload a copy for you all to see.

In fact, originally I wanted to call the new space music album "Turn Down The Silence", but it didn't quite fit the cover image, hence the change to "In Search of Silence". I'll probably use the original album title idea as a track title instead.

Musically, I'll be looking to do something different again, and with other projects on the go as well, it'll be interesting to see where "Silence" goes. It'll certainly be all new material though, and I'll be calling on my guitar loving friends Andy Lobban and Nigel Turner-Heffer to add lead, bass and acoustic guitar, and I may also be looking at other acoustic instruments as well, we shall see.

More details to follow in the new year both here and on the ad music online store.................

The Trinity project to start recording in January 2011

Pleased to report that I'll be working with my good friends and Code Indigo electronic music colleagues Neil "Geigertek" Fellowes and Nigel Turner-Heffer on a brand new instrumental music project under the name "The Trinity". We'll be writing and recording good old relaxing instrumental music in the best tradition of gentle space music and there is a whole series planned for release through the new age music distributor new world music. The first four will be "Music for Angels", Tranquil Spirits", "Angels and Moonbeams" and "Serenity". We hope to have the first of these ready for release by June and will be aiming for at least two to released in 2011, maybe  more. We'll see how things go. More news to be posted here in the new year.

Walking with Ghosts to be remastered for 2011 re-release

One of my most popular instrumental music albums "Walking with Ghosts" is being reissued in 2011 in 24 bit digitally remastered format. Both AD Music and our new age distributor New World have sold out so another repress is required. As the artwork details needed updating, I decided to go back to the original tapes and remaster with current mastering technology. In truth, I was always quite happy with most aspects of the original space music album, so there won't be massive changes or new remixes or anything like that, I'll simply be looking to improve the overall mastering quality and tweak a few things here and there. Another project I'm looking forward to starting in 2011.

Sci fi book space music soundtrack

I've been in discussion with American writer Matt Howarth who's completing a new sci fi story that I'll write the space music sound track for. It's an interesting concept; the book will be available as a pdf on the electronic music soundtrack CD, so, at this stage, beyond having a very basic overview of the story, I don't have character or plot details yet, or even a working title, so, can't really start work on the space music until I do.

But really looking forward to starting work on this project and I do have some ideas including following a very "film soundtrack" style score incorporating recurring themes and traditional electronica music atmospherics as well.

I certainly won't be trying for a Vangelis "Blade Runner" or Hans Zimmer "Last Samurai" style soundtrack, but as both are amongst my all time favorite film soundtracks, it's a fair bet to assume I'll be seeking insprirartion from those two awesome works.

As and when more information becomes available on this instrumental music project, I'll post details here.

Blizzards in Bungay

Having succumbed to a dose of flu just a few days before Christmas, it at least gave me the opportunity to catch up on some outstanding blog postings working from my laptop looking out over a snow storm over Bungay!

But before I start though, I'd like to wish all my family, friends and fans a very, very merry Christmas and prosperous new year. See you in 2011.

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..........