Recordings

*New* 

I am excited to announce lots of original music scheduled for 2019! On the occasion of my 50th birthday, I am releasing new material spread out over four CD's. One will be my own material I have written or improvised and recorded over the last 10 years, and the other is a compilation of songs written and recorded in collaboration with my students at the fabulous Sound studio, released July 1st, 2019. Available on all streaming platforms and a few special packaged custom CD's. All proceeds go to support the Sunshine Coast Arts Council. Please support them by supporting us! Link HERE!

Things old, things new, sometimes demos...this is a rotating page of my recorded music.

Lucinda (Acoustic Demo)

This was a song I wrote as a dare. I was arguing with a freind that I felt I could write a song like Lucinda Williams and sing with that kind of a drawl....this is what I came up with, and I got rid of the drawl and made it my own. This acoustic version was recorded for a band to learn the song when we had a few gigs booked. 

Asterisk*

A song written on my beloved 1960 Yamaha ukulele. It was lifted from the woods during a performance last summer. Pretty sure someone just thought it was a lost kids toy. This was a song written in a backyard in Surrey with planes flying overhead and me asking my brother-in-law about golf references. What, like a "dirty birdie?" he said. Yep, like that, and I would put it in the song. The title refers to reading the small print.

Pontiac

Pontiac. The hit! This song was written for the 2011 Rainforest Circus event. I played all the instruments on this, and then took out the main Ukulele (played through a delay pedal) and vocal, and then sang and played along to the backing track live in the woods, while hoping around in-between the characters here. More music over at the Rainforest Circus site HERE.

Put forth a dream

A track from the remix I did of my good friend Marlin's CD called "Happy Face Math." Again, I set up a few things such as a synth, casio keyboard, sampler (with horse sounds) vinyl, and the VHS film "When we were kings." Also an iPod with the great Italian Violinist Silvia Mandolini, and a tape cassette of me calling into a radio show when I was in my 20's. What you hear here, is exactly what I heard when I was flying things around. It was exciting.Listening to music for the first time but being in the middle of it. Later, $45 in 1954 Canadian bills fell out of a "stories of the bible" vinyl record I was using. Some of the accidental timing on this was just crazy. There's no way I could make this stuff up.