some Songs WRITTEN OVER RECENT DECADES
After leaving my band, 'The Little Heroes', I kept writing new songs, though I knew they would never see the light of day - largely because I didn't want to perform any more. As much as I'd had some success in the music biz, my passions lay elsewhere - I wanted to be free of the stifling weight of being looked at by audiences and music industry people. I wanted to do other things - learn how to meditate, travel to interesting places, write books and make my images - explore the big horizon of 'anything-can-happen' - which is what I've done.
Nevertheless it always rankled a bit, that my new songs would never be heard.
Then Ai emerged, and gave me the opportunity to unearth the lyrics and musical ideas I'd been writing over the decades, and give expression to the demo's I'd made.
It's given me great pleasure to hear my songs sung back to me - to give voice to some of the songs that had collected in my journals and on my laptop.
Each of them have been carefully programmed and gone through hundreds of iterations to find their final form. From my point of view, it's like collaborating with an extraordinarily versatile band.