Writing Bartholomew Tope
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/track/7gK330cqAieOkV6Sab3Brf?si=6069f35f6047489b iTunes https://music.apple.com/us/album/bartholomew-tope-feat-ian-mcintosh-steven-serlin-james/1680477048?i=1680481100 Music With lyric as yet un-penned, I had a carte blanche to create a musical setting for our unpredictable, grubby Dickensian baddie. So I thought it might be fun to set…
Writing Spirits at Rest
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/track/1PkFKDZxsMzV7exWmyWy17?si=f0711be510a44773 iTunes https://music.apple.com/us/album/spirits-at-rest-feat-steven-serlin-laura-pitt-pulford/1680477048?i=1680481817 Lyrics ‘Spirits at Rest’ introduces the character Caleb Satterley, the parson at the church of St Hedrok’s. A loveable, comic, character, noted for his uncanny ability to misquote extracts from the…
Writing As Year Follows Year
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/track/5mQWk4bTwa1pCMmafn6Buy?si=361d0f62115a4a83 iTunes https://music.apple.com/us/album/as-year-follows-year-feat-savannah-stevenson/1680477048?i=1680481109 Lyrics ‘As Year Follows Year’ develops Anna’s character. Looking out across the water, Anna sings a lament about her lost husband, a fisherman, who is missing at sea. The opening lines…
Writing Hey-o-hey
Spotify https://open.spotify.com/track/4x8ePoqERQ9ODJliM5n3jf?si=74da7c3412764d85 iTunes https://music.apple.com/us/album/hey-o-hey-feat-savannah-stevenson-laura-pitt-pulford/1680477048?i=1680483010 Music When Steve suggested we needed a song to introduce the Highsands fishing community a light went on in my head and I remembered an instrumental sketch which I had composed…
Writing Her Lonely Way
Her Lonely Way was written as lyric first followed by the music composition. You can listen to the song here. Spotify https://open.spotify.com/track/2cIOxtZlmsPH1gnacHVq9I?si=d35a8012db244602 iTunes https://music.apple.com/us/album/her-lonely-way-feat-laura-pitt-pulford-louise-young/1680477048?i=1680482100 Lyrics One morning, on the south Devon coast, I took a…
New Tracks Released
Please have a listen to six new tracks just released by Glenn.
The Cormorant Tree Artwork
Having given Adam a brief in regard the setting for The Cormorant Tree, the feel of the piece, and some of the mythic background, Adam sketched out some initial ideas. Choosing ‘Thumbnail 1’ and ‘Thumbnail…
Writing the lyrics of ‘Smiling in Blue’
We felt we needed a more optimistic song early in Act Two of Spitfire. A simple song, of the period, which will have been written by one of our characters, Eric, who can play the…
