In the lineage of Erik Satie · Claude Debussy · Ludovico's quiet school · Federico Mompou · Harold Budd
Music made as sanctuary — turning a difficult beginning into quiet hope.
I write calming neoclassical on the piano. Mostly it's about resilience and a hard start — ordinary things, made a little more visible.
There are a handful of records — “Herbal Life” — and they belong together.
Plays now and then, small rooms only, mostly around the UK — a hall, a back room, sometimes someone's front room. Nothing big. If you'd like to host one, get in touch.
“Herbal Life” started the way these do — the idea of resilience, at an odd hour.
It is calming neoclassical, so nothing hurries — the piano is allowed to just sit in the room.
It isn't a message — it's company for a particular hour.
I don't choose hope; it keeps choosing me.
It is calming neoclassical, so nothing hurries — the piano is allowed to just sit in the room.
If it slowed you down for forty minutes, it did its job.
Ambient work asks you to be patient in a world that isn't. That's a strange way to spend your twenties, thirties, whatever this is.
There's no roar of a crowd in calming neoclassical; there's a person, somewhere, listening alone at midnight. I try to make it for them.
It's a quiet life. Mostly I'm grateful for it.
The method is dull and I'm proud of it — a piano, a quiet room, the delete key.
Most of a session ends up deleted. What survives is the piece.
Owed to Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Ludovico's quiet school. The rest I took by accident.
