Behind the curtain
I have always loved music. At least I don’t ever remember feeling any other way about it. Before the awkwardness; before the emotional fire storm of teenage hormones and battles with confidence; before...
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"...and I find myself knowing the things that I knew. Which is is all that you can do on this side of the blue.." Joanna NewsomI have often found myself saying that you rarely learn things just once....
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"I just want to lift you up..."
It was just after the millennium had rolled through and we were all still here. The world hadn't ended, despite the warnings of computer systems malfunctioning. It would be another 12 years before such...
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Still holding on to the rhythm
Somewhere in the back of my mind I knew it had been a while..... In all the excitement of recording my new album ( announcements to follow soon I promise ) some part of me quietly acknowledged that it...
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If music plays and there is no one there to hear it ...
It's Sunday, I love Sundays... This morning I woke up thinking about writing music and the engagement of listening.I can never really claim to own the music I write as much as anyone can claim to own...
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Behind the blue
Watch lyric version of 'Still Here' Cover photo : Sunrise over Nusa Lembongan taken from the east coast of Bali in 2008. It had been eight years since I'd stepped foot on the island of Nusa Lembanogan...
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The Well You Seek
Wishing Well by Rainy Stream Download Watch video I climbed these gritstone boulders and traced these Parmelia saxatilis lichens for years growing up in the Peak District in Derbyshire. Familiarity...
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We Are Home
Home had appeared one day beyond the mangrove, far away from the cold hills and valleys of Derbyshire where I first learned to grow my roots of place. Struck by the soul of a kind new friend and...
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The Bridge To The Fire
Get Your Fire by Rainy Long before I had felt the warm sand under my feet I called to the fire, before the deep forest sleep and the soothing turquoise waters I had , quite unwittingly, set a...
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The Way Of The River
Riverway by Rainy Many years ago I sat down with a friend to write a song around the symbolism of a river. He had posed the idea to me after several years studying Buddhist principles. We'd often meet...
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Slow Down
Slow Down by Rainy For as long as I can remember writing music has become a way of reflection. An exploration into how and why I think or feel a certain way. Some songs spill out as if they were...
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A Mandala Solstice
Winter solstice is upon us once again here in the northern hemisphere. It's time for the waning days of the Holly king to dutifully hand over to the waxing Oak, readying the coming of the light.It's...
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The Making Of Grainy
Ben & ‘Grainy’ at the ‘Fell For The World’ album launch in the New Bristol Brewery I've loved albums ever since I first started exploring my parents mysterious vinyl collection as a kid. There is...
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