I am attempting to have new music ready and available every Sunday this year – 52 things. Most things will be new tracks, some videos or live tracks.

This is number 12. It is about waking up to the thaw after a winter hibernating on a ship frozen into the arctic. I think.

I’ve mostly used the first couple of months of the year to finish off half produced tracks that I had lying around (Plus the six new tracks from this year’s FAWM). With track number 12, Thaw, I’ve finally re-mixed everything I had planned on.

The next step is to dig around all my old demos and see if there’s a song or two there that can be worked up into the finished article.

After that, it will all be new material.

This is a terrifying idea. I’m going to spend most of the year going mad trying to write new songs.

This week’s new song is ‘Dance Dance Dance’ a song about dancing while the world ends.

The chorus is in 5/4, and the verses go through a couple of different time signatures.

Recorded in a hurry using reaper, which I would heartily recommend to anyone look for a new music program.

This year I’m challenging myself to release new music every sunday – mostly it will be finished songs, but not every single week.

This week, the Thing is three more demo songs that I’ve written for February Album Writing Month.

The Time Traveller Suite part 2 – Rise Another Leaf

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This follows on from part 1 and is the middle chapter of 3.

Cutting up all of our Dreams

DownloadCutting Up All of our Dreams

This one’s about little monsters who come out at night. It makes use of a couple of different time signatures. I’m not quite happy with the groove in the second section, but the basis iof a working song is there.

Everything I Write

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A simple poppy indie love song that makes use of a drum loop kindly shared with the world by my fellow Fawmer TizzDizz

Probably my 2012 FAWM will only consist of 6 songs, but that’s on a par with previous years and these are 6 I wouldn’t have written other wise, so I’m more than happy.

You can download any of the demos for free by clicking the links.

You can click here to hear the rest of the 52 Things so far.