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I've changed to a wordpress blog. So any posts will be here from now on.

meetup group: suburban mysticism

I've started a meetup group at meetup.com. Meetup.com is a website where you can find groups of like minded people in your local area, or create your own group, with the intention of meeting up.
It may be the start of something amazing, or maybe it won't get off the ground at all. We'll see.
Here's the brief:

"Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained"
William Blake
I've started this group with the goal of getting people together to enjoy playing and singing as a collective, to learn, and to create music with a mystical feel. Simple and natural, yet mysterious and magical. Ultimately to be recorded, and for a one off performance.
The concept of the music: Suburban Mysticism
Spiritual, mystical and otherworldly, praising esoteric heavenly entities, performing rituals, casting magic spells, fulfilling ones own desires.
Whether you have any spiritual beliefs, or not, is beside the point, it's a search for a mystical experience within the music. If you do have any interest in the metaphysical, perhaps you would like to contribute?
If you have a passion to play or sing, but have no formal training, then you are welcome.
Some musical intuition would be required from group members, and more advanced musicians are required to take turns in conducting sections of the ensemble, or themes and ideas (your ideas / arrangements are welcome), as well as performing.

To read on, and if your in the London area and are interested in joining, go to the group homepage:
London-Exotica-and-Mystical-Music-Workshop

Sunflowers: A five part story

a spoken word story, with a noisy, distorted soundtrack is available for free from here. It's a five part story (all of which will be free), the first episode, episode, can be downloaded this week, followed by an episode each week from here on. It's a sort of a lovely fantasy kind of thing, to start with at least...I do hope you'll grab it and enjoy it.


Here's part 0:



If you want to be notified of the next episodes via twitter, click here.... Or just check back, put a note in your diary...etc. Thanks to P and R at unchartedaudio for sorting this out.

warm and fuzzy here

Horrorlab: A short film

The warmest of warm wishes

The song is for Rowan. Apologies to him and the parents for the bum note.

Update: The divshare link keeps on failing for some reason, you should be able to download it from here. "Warm Wishes"

Tension as spider attempts to cross shower curtain rail

He must make it to the other side. But why?
Background sounds by Ennio Morricone and extractor fan.