Breaking News October 2011

I have just completed a new album entitled ‘Great Big Guitars’. The title should tell you all you need to know. This contains some of the coolest tunes and some of the best playing I have ever done. You can see I have abandoned false modesty.

It contains all instrumental music some of which is solo acoustic, some of which is electric and some electronic. I am guilty of making most of the noises you will hear, with the exception of some samples and some sequenced parts.

For those that are really interested I play a Wise acoustic, Ovation 1867 Custom acoustic, Godin LGXT electric/acoustic/MIDI, 1974 Gibson Les Paul custom, and what was once a Squier Telecaster [till Scott Wise got to it]. The music was all recorded in my humble Cubase studio, which is where all the synths, sequencers and samplers live.

The music tries to get to the parts that other guitar music doesn’t get to. It’s also supposed to be fun. Ideally one could listen to this music while you are doing something creative like drawing or making things. As far as I am aware it has not been used to torture prisoners in military prisons. Besides – they normally keep people awake and there is a real danger they would fall asleep with some of this stuff.

It is a free download or you can pay as much as you like. You can decide. I do not expect to be able to retire to the South of France very soon.

I tried to persuade Robyn Guthrie [of the Cocteau Twins] that producing this album would be a good career move for him. I guess I failed to convince him so I did it myself. I hope you enjoy listening to this music as much as I have enjoyed making it.

Best wishes to all and thank you for your interest in the music I make.