This a little collection of pieces I have been working on from just before Wilfred was born until today. They pretty much have been my musical release through a fairly bonkers three months as I think you'll be able to hear.


I have to thank Simon Hopkins for his guitar activity on 'my hot ghost', it was exactly what it needed and there was no way on earth I was going to be supplying it. So I shanghaied him into a bit of completely unprepared for improvisation when he was supposed to be working at mine. Thank goodness I did.


They are all quite long, I decided to let myself go with the structure of these things. I wanted something you could get lost in. I certainly did. 


'my hot ghost' is about Bertie rather than Wilfred. He has been a real companion to me as I have re-learnt the facts of living. It sounds way sadder than I meant it to be. I simply wanted to point out that no matter how close a being is, they are always separate, themselves, unknowable - he is my hot ghost.

If you have ever spent a very hot summer evening in a city thinking about where else you should be, perhaps missing someone, then this is the music for you.


True I find it a terribly sad music, but in the best of ways. Not melodramatic, but a quiet resignation.


I think Roland is a great composer. I will be putting his albums up here shortly, in the meantime you could go visit last.fm to get the full experience.

I'm pretty damn excited by this one. I think I mentioned that I was working with Jim Noir on a little group of tracks. Well this is the first one off the line. Feels just right for a hot day like this. 


Don't blame Jim for the singing, he hasn't suddenly got all rubbish that's me. I thought he'd appreciate the extra little bit of human-ness that singing tends to bring. 


Anyway this started life as little bundle of loops and bits sent from Jim to me, including the wonderful fuzzy bass foot you'll hear throughout. I then added all sorts of melody lines, way too many in fact and then spent the rest of the time editing them back until something smaller and more sensible emerged. 


Now to my skewed ears it sounds like a bona fide pop song, minus the singing and more usual verse-chorus thing. What d'you reckon?

True it has taken quite a while to sort out (four years) but I managed it in the end. A finisher completer me. The final push was that Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz both mentioned it in the last week or so. That was when I realised that had forgotten to put it on the new site. Did a new graphic for the cover (can you even have a cover anymore?).