Songwriter. Composer. Cripplepunk AF.
Here’s another curiosity from the archives. I was still getting to grips with my new studio, and figuring out how to make software sounds sound lesss softwarey, for want of a better word
It’s just a little piano work, a foreshadowing of my return to more serious instrumental composition. It has a spooky charm, as do most things of this time. I think I imagined it like an opening suite, probably taking cues from Tubular Bells, as I often do.
Streaming wherever you get your music x
I’ve been making for so long, that a whole bunch of my career happened pre-streaming. When I recorded my first solo single, there were just a few places you could share music online – remember Overplay, anyone? Most of this music got lost as I moved into the modern chapter of my career, with the gloves and all the adventures that brings.
That inevitably means that a lot of people who know my music now, don’t know where it began. I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, but thankfully my original Mac, collecting dust in my studio, still works and contains a huge archive of songs and recordings.
There’s definitely a right time to revisit old work. You can’t force it. I went through a long period of being quite dismissive of my past, only looking forward. I’ve been through a lot personally over the last year, and it’s been a time of taking stock and reflecting. In that, it now feels like a good time to introduce – re-introduce – a younger version of myself to my modern audience.
Ghostships was my first single as a solo artist. It’s a dark downward spiral meditation on the bleakest ends to relationships. The death of a relationship. a Ghostship.
It’s from another life, with a meaning that is long gone to me, but songs take on new meanings. This song – I’m told – still means a lot to a few people who remember it. It deserves a new life, a new audience to find their own meanings in it.
It’s a very lo-fi recording, but it has a charm. I’ve got the stems, I may remix it, but for now, this is the original release, made little louder and tighter for streaming.
There’s lots more on the way, I hope you enjoy this little curiosity from my past life x
Streaming now, wherever you get your music.