Beginnings is essentially about birth and light out of darkness. It is also a metaphor for rebirth and allowing yourself to change to live the way you want to live. To quote the great Charles Bukowski, “Can you remember who you were before the world told you who you should be?” It is about allowing yourself to see the person you want to see and setting them free. It is a call to arms; “Be Happy”

Release Date: 20th October 2023

Discovery, is about the journey through life and what we learn along the way. The nature of being is difficult and enthused with suffering – that is the human condition. The track seeks to diffuse some of that by focussing on positive ways to deal with life. In seeking to acknowledge that every life is different, at the end of the day, we all share a common humanity and are not so very different despite what we might perceive as being different on the surface.

Release Date: 10th November 2023

Aspiration, is inspired by hope and the desire to give your dreams full reign. It is about allowing yourself to dispel negativity and work towards self-fulfilment by jettisoning those negative emotions and events which seek to hold you back. Finally, in offering a vista of hope, it seeks to promote joy with a warning that once you’ve achieved whatever you define as success, you don’t let it go to your head and thus retain your humanity and decency.

Release Date: 1st December 2023

Reflection, covers both the time in life when you feel yourself reflecting on all of those life experiences that have gone before or the myriad moments you cogitate on events that happen to you. Again, it is the human condition to worry and try to make sense of life’s joys and perceived injustices. Depending on someone’s level of sensitivity, the normal course of life necessitates making sense of it all. The music had to reflect the sensitivity of emotion but conversely to be dramatic to acknowledge that reflection also encompasses fear, anger and falling short.

Release Date: TBA

Acceptance, is perhaps the most important movement of the album. It represents acknowledgement and, finally, acceptance of all that has gone before. It offers hope and inner peace by the message that we can’t be perfect, and our interpretation of our shortcomings might not be the way others see us. Those people or events that seek to diminish us or reduce us are consigned to irrelevancy. Even when we feel we have not measured up to our own vision of ourselves, we can still rise above that by smiling a lot – because of our smile we make life more beautiful!

Release Date: TBA

Release, is a joyous acknowledgement that life has been lived and accepting that it is now over. The first section is a soaring melodious rock moment which represents love in life and the fact it endures when we are gone. The second folk part is the nether land between life and death. It was inspired by a young girl who looked like a little pixie dancing at a festival – all beads and twirling hands. The finale, rock out section, was the departure from life and entry into whatever lies beyond, hence the dramatic nature of the music.

Release Date: TBA