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Each track is going for around $1 (or more, if you’re so inclined!), and you can pick up the whole album for $5 or more. You can also get your hands on a physical CD if you like — just let me know!

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You can also listen to one of the (early) improvisations I played on this theme by downloading the recording I made on my phone here.

This piece is a rondo in D minor. Let me know what you think!

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I’ve uploaded an archive of my music for easier download. This archive currently contains eighteen tracks, eight of which are no longer available anywhere else! The tracks included in this pack are:

• Ambient
  • Clockwork
• EDM
  • Falling
  • Plus que juste un rêve
  • Raining in the east
  • Rebellion
  • The call
  • Twelve nineteen
• Pop/Rock
  • Evening with you
  • Fallen embers
  • Just to say
  • Quiet rituals
  • Standing on the brink of forever
• Orchestral
  • Dawn
  • Ink and parchment
  • Journey
  • Untitled hymn
  • Whispers of love (2008)
• (Fun) Droopy the dragon

I may well create other ‘songpacks’ for download, so keep checking back. There’ll always be a couple of exclusive tracks in each pack, so it’ll be worth your while. I hope.

Download all eighteen tracks now!

I have wrapped my heart in ink and parchment,
and cast it into your sea.

A companion piece to “Drifting”. Also in 7/8, with many of the same stylistic elements. It’s much more brooding, however, and simpler in its execution.

Him the Almighty Power/Hurl’d headlong . . . /To bottomless perdition, there to dwell — John Milton

(Although it wasn’t inspired by that quotation, it fits well with the track, in my opinion.)

This is an orchestral piece in loose ternary form (you could argue for a loose rondo form, too). There are lots of time signatures all mixed together, and often layered on top of each other. It’s scored for a Romantic-sized string section, flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, french horn, trumpet, timpani, tam tam, cymbals, snare, bass drum, and harp.

A very simple waltz which crescendoes throughout.

Dawn. Another day at sea. He’s lost count how many days it’s been. Fifteen? Sixteen? Not much water left now.

He lies on his back in the lifeboat, listening to the rhythm of the boat: the splash of the waves, the idle flapping of the hastily rigged sail, the ropes on the mast.

The sun climbs higher.

His vacant eyes stare up at the harsh blue sky, the angry white of the sun burning his pupils unnoticed. An albatross hangs in the air in the distance, turns towards him, circles his boat.

The hours pass, and the albatross is gone. Just him, the sun, and the rhythm of the boat.