A selection of previously unreleased music from 1988 through to 2021, showcasing my evolution as a composer.

“Reverie” is a short piano piece in C minor, recorded in a music room at school during the autumn term in 1988.

“Spooksound” is a short Halloween-themed piece in F minor, recorded on a Roland Alpha Juno 2 synthesizer at school in October 1988.

“Cozmik” is a short electronic piece, recorded on a Roland Alpha Juno 2 and a Yamaha TX81Z with a Yamaha REX50 effects unit at home one weekend in September 1989 (I was very lucky to be able to borrow some music gear from school that weekend).

“Spacewalk” was originally intended to segue on from “Cozmik”. It was recorded over the same weekend as “Cozmik” in September 1989 with the same gear. “Spacewalk” was later re-worked as “Caelesti Somnia” (from my “Chakra Dance” EP) in the spring of 2003.

“Astrovizion” was recorded over the autumn half term holiday in October 1989 on a Yamaha DX27 synthesizer that I’d borrowed from school.

“In the Forest” was recorded during the spring of 1990 in a music room at school, with my old Artley flute, and a Roland digital piano. It is based on a variation of one of the themes from “Cozmik”.

“Windflowers” was recorded in the chapel of Harris Manchester College, Oxford, in November 1994. It expands on themes from “In the Forest” composed over four and a half years earlier, adding an extra flute part. I played the chapel’s grand piano while recording onto cassette, and then played back the cassette while recording the first flute part (with my Trevor James flute) onto another cassette, and then played that cassette back while recording the second flute part.

“That which was not to be” was an improvisation I played on my Roland Alpha Juno 1 synthesizer (with a patch I created called “Soft String”) at my old house in Wiltshire back in February 1998. It was recorded straight to DAT.

“Faerie Waltz” is a short piano piece I originally composed in the early 90s, but recorded onto Minidisc in February 2003 on my Mickleburgh piano (as shown in the album artwork) at my old house in Wiltshire.

“Love, the Healer of Time” is a short New Age improvisation I recorded with my Roland JV-1080 in December 2015 at my old house in Shropshire. The end of the improvisation mirrors that of “In the Forest”, composed over 25 years earlier.

“Faerie Waltz II” is a short piano piece I originally composed around 1994 while at Oxford, but was recorded in the summer of 2017 at my old house in Shropshire on my Korg SP-250 digital piano.

“Cozmonautiks” is an unfinished electronic piece, which I recorded in February 2018 at my old house in Shropshire, and features my Roland Alpha Juno 1 and Roland JV-1080. Its melody was originally composed around 1989 or 1990; my intention back then was to record an album called “Cozmik” featuring the title track plus “Spacewalk”, “Astrovizion”, “Cozmonautiks”, and a number of similarly-named space-themed pieces. Hopefully this will one day come to fruition, over three decades later!

“Boolean Chemistry” is another unfinished piece, which I recorded around April/May 2018 at my old house in Shropshire, and features my Korg SP-250 piano, and my Roland Alpha Juno 1 and Roland JV-1080.

“Tree of Life” is the original version I composed and recorded back in August 2019 for a performance art piece, before re-working it into a longer piece a couple of years later. Incidentally, “Tree of Life” borrows part of the chord progression from “Windflowers”.

“Avon Valley Dreams” was recorded in March 2020, on my laptop, using a VST emulation of the Eminent Solina String Ensemble. I composed the melody back in the summer of 1994, while on a train to Bath that was travelling through the beautiful Avon Valley. Every repeat of the melody changes key anticlockwise around the Circle of Fifths.

“Stalownia” was recorded in April 2020, intended to be the opening theme of an album in memory of my late wife Sonia, but is, as yet, unfinished. It features a melody played on my Trevor James flute, and accompaniment from my Kurzweil K2000R and Roland JV-1080.

“Floating with the Angels” is a New Age improvisation I recorded in the spring of 2021, that provided the inspiration for “Angelus Meus in Caelis” in memory of my late wife. It features my Roland JV-1080 and Kawai K5000S.

“Bousey Wow” is an electronic improvisation I recorded in the summer of 2021 on my Roland Alpha Juno 1 synthesizer, with digital delay from my Roland MX-1.