Building Sound Buildings

As you may recall, I've been intending to build a new studio since last summer. We got the planning permission a couple of months ago but it's taken until now to be ready to start work on it. But today the builders arrived and started taking down the old structure and I've decided I should blog the whole process. So, for those of you who may be interested in watching the studio develop from an old shell to a shiny new room, I've started a new blog: Building Sound Buildings.

The build will be taking a lot of my attention for a while so you can expect the new blog to be rather more active than this one, but I will try to remember to drop by from time to time and let you know what else is going on in my world.

Maya

Thanks to all of you who have bought the “Songs from the Silk Road” anthology: your support and comments mean a lot to me.

It has been a wonderful process, going through the back catalogue and establishing some kind of control over it, and the whole experience has made me excited about creating new music.

The new material won't see the light of day till 2012, I am afraid, but for now I am happy to announce the first in a series of digital re-releases: “Maya” came out this week, complete with 3 extra tracks and slightly tweaked artwork. It is available from all download platforms (iTunes, eMusic, Amazon etc), but as with “Songs”, we have put it up on Bandcamp where you can download it for £4.99.

Gigs are coming in for the year: in June I am DJing at Sunrise Festival then playing live at Willowman and Glastonbury Festivals; in August I am playing Ozora (Hungary), Endorse-it in Dorset, Sonica (Montengro) and Aurora (Greece) Festivals. I don't know the date and times for some of the sets, but as soon as I do, I will post them up on Facebook and on the website. More dates are being added so do keep checking.