Genre Fluid

Just packaging up six of my most recent songs and musical collaborations that cross over some diverse styles. I’m releasing them as a maxi-EP or a mini-LP, depending on whether you’re glass half-full or half-empty, under the title Genre Fluid for the bargain-bin price of $5 or a dollar each if you want each song separately.

It’s Not Our Time for the Sea is the most recent of the collection with lyrics by Andrea Thomson (from C5 the band) and me. It’s about the abusive relationship between man and Mother Earth, a mish-mash of prog, pop, funk, rock and dare I say it hip-hop and gospel.

My Light, My Sky is about displaced friendships with lyrics by yours truly and Simon Oliver, whom you may know from Clive-upon-Sea’s Fragments album, which was produced by yours truly. This song is a largely percussion-free acoustic singer-songwriter tune, a bit of a Floydian slip if you ask me with some pedal steel guitar suggested by long-time Sciencebase online friend Steelfolk, aka Dr Keith Walker.

Ticking Clocks kicks off like a prog rock song but flips into lounge lizard jazz with Adam Stewart from C5 the Band on drums and synth. It’s lyrically a kind of sequel to She’s Leaving Home.

Take the Waters was inspired by a conversation with Rachel another member of our choir The TyrannoChorus. The track is another singer-songwriter thing with pseudo-choral harmonies, maybe next time I’ll bring the choir together for my songs.

Old Nick is Quick is an uptempo punky little number about getting away with it, or not, as the case may be.

Festival Friends are Cool as Folk is a fingerstyle guitar instrumental improvised after I took part in a guitar workshop with Nigel Wearne.

Here’s that link again – Genre Fluid, the max-EP, or mini-LP.