Image by Angus Clyne
Here’s another track from The new album I wrote with Evelyn Glennie – it’s called ice drive and features some insanely good toy piano playing!!
Ice Drive
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Winter Wonderland with Evelyn Glennie released today!
Evelyn Glennie (Photo by Julian Macedo @PowderPhotography)
Winter Wonderland is a new album I’ve recorded with my friend the brilliant percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie.
It’s released today on iTunes and it’s rather Christmassy…! Here’s a track called Dalbergia…This one features an amazing Halo DrumHere’s just one more for now called Frost Flowers…
Hope you like the tracks. They’re all on iTunes here.
By the way, the photo above was taken at the weekend when we performed together at my Not So Silent Movies… series at Kings Place.
Christmas music in space!
Here are a couple of Christmas tracks to download by way of thanks for all the great support this year!
Here’s a track called ‘Look Up’ (download using the down button on the right):
This is all about the happiness of flying down a mountain when your heart is full to bursting… Cady Coleman the wonderful astronaut is taking this track up into orbit on the International Space Station this week.
Think of her as she makes her incredible commute on the Soyuz rocket.
I’ve had a great month writing music in Oman as I worked on the sound design of the 40th anniversary celebrations, and have just completed my first album with Evelyn Glennie the percussion virtuoso. There’s a huge project next year which is very very hush hush but it involves being locked in a studio for two weeks conducting a symphony orchestra… more soon!
If you’re going to the Sundance Film Festival – here are two films I’ve got showing there:
http://sundance.bside.com/2011/films/bobbyfischeragainsttheworld_sundance2011
http://sundance.bside.com/2011/films/theflaw_sundance2011
And if you follow the Oscars, the Tillman Story has been shortlisted for the best Documentary!
http://indiegeniusprod.com/BestMoviesEver/tillman-story-trailer/
And… Here’s a carol I wrote called ‘the Orange Tree’… please download if you like.
Stumble It!
The robin laughed in the orange-tree:
“Ho, windy North, a fig for thee:
While breasts are red and wings are bold
And green trees wave us globes of gold,
Time’s scythe shall reap but bliss for me
Sunlight, song, and the orange-tree.
Have a peaceful, wonderful Christmas and stay in touch!
Orange Tree in Winter
Here’s a Christmas track to download by way of thanks for all the great support this year!
The robin laughed in the orange-tree:
“Ho, windy North, a fig for thee:
While breasts are red and wings are bold
And green trees wave us globes of gold,
Time’s scythe shall reap but bliss for me
Sunlight, song, and the orange-tree.
Dickens’ Christmas Carol Overture
Here’s an overture I wrote for a production of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol starring Clive Francis, designed by Tim Bird.
Stumble It!
If you’d like the mp3 drop me a line below!
Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge’s name was good upon ‘Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
Mind! I don’t mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country’s done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail.
