This song is about ten years’ old. I was very happy with it when I wrote it and recorded it. It’s a contemplative piece, dealing with feelings of failure and lost direction in adult life. I wrote it when I was working at an amazing place, the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington (where two tonne …
I wanted to write a dance track, so I did. This is a throw-back to my clubbing days. Though, come to think of it, actually I didn’t really have any clubbing days. I used a sample library for some of the bass, drum and synth sounds. I quite like the different vocal treatments that I …
I was travelling around southern Spain, visiting flamenco guitar makers, so that I could set up my flamenco guitar business. On one day, I drove from Granada to a place called Gata de Gorgos and then headed back to Málaga before a flight the next morning back home. However, it got late, and I had been …
I wrote a piece for solo flute called Pajarillos. Pajarillos is a district in the city of Valladolid in Spain, where I studied with my good friend Claire in 1986-7. Claire lived in a flat in Pajarillos with three other ladies, Conchi, Ana, Gema and their landlady Olvido. Olvido was shy, nervous and appeared strict. …