News and Updates

26-October-2005
I'm working on a longer piece, which will probably be in 3 sections, each of 4 to 6 minutes. The first section is almost complete and features some interesting choir like sounds, with the electronic sounds weaving in and out. The effect is intended to be beautifully atmospheric, with no drums the instrumentation carries the rhythm. The next part is also coming on, more on that soon.

I have also updated the biography page.


21-July-2005
The Studio, Creative Process and Biography pages have been updated.


12-July-2005
The site is being updated. The first change is to improve and streamline the graphics, which will make the site easier to update, which I hope will mean more frequent updates. A page giving a brief synopsis of the trance project has been added. Next up will be some more new pages.


21-April-2005
The "Track Descriptions & Excerpts" page have been updated along with my biography. The track descriptions for the new tracks are now posted on the "Track Descriptions & Excerpts" page.


12-April-2005
I have spent the last few months, since the begining of the year working on some new material. Two new tracks are now complete. The first Azimuth is a trance track, the follow up to Mollases. The second, Aftermath is best described as neo-classical. It has lots of strings, trumpet, harp and various synthesizer sounds with no beats and is written in 5/8.
The Penboa Studio page has also been updated. More updates to follow soon.


03-Sep-2004 Web-Diary August 2004
From Glyndebourne to Cesky Sen (“The Czech Dream”)

August, and a month of extremely varied cultural events, starting with an evening at Glyndebourne listening to Carmen a perfect English Summer’s evening. Two days later in Zürich for the Street parade and I swapped Bizet’s anthems for Trance anthems, with the 30-degree summer temperature providing the perfect weather for the occasion. The atmosphere was fantastic, 1 million people in a city with a population of 350,000 is very spectacular.

The following Monday I took the train down to Ticino, in the south of Switzerland, to the Locarno International Film Festival. Watching films in the evening on that huge screen in the Piaza Grande with 7000 other people is a unique experience. The best film I saw was called Cesky Sen (“The Czech Dream”), a film about the Czech obsession with Hypermarkets. The film was made by two film students, who persuaded advertising agencies, public-relations agencies and other marketing specialists to devise a high profile marketing campaign to announce the biggest and cheapest Hypermarket in Prague with the same name as the film and the slogan “don’t come”. Making fun of your culture is healthy, but watching the film in Switzerland I couldn’t help but feel that you could make a similar film about some aspects of contemporary British culture. The advertising executives describing Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel as an advertisement for God was very entertaining (they need to get out the office more to avoid becoming entirely 1-dimensional). Given that the Czech Republic is in many ways a young culture trying to find it’s identity after throwing off the chains of communism the film is quite poignant as well as being extremely funny. The shoppers react amazingly calmly when they find out they are in the middle of a large field with nothing more than a billboard.

Developed some ideas for the next set of tracks siting in Cafe… Watch this space. I’m listening to a mixture of Trance (I bought all the Street Parade Compilations), Mahler and Schönberg for inspiration.


01-Aug-2004
The two excerpts from the trance track Mollases have now been replaced by a single edit taken from the new mix. The new mix was produced using a Lexicon PCM91 Digital Reverberator, to provide the reverb, instead of software reverb plug-ins and gives a much better impression of depth and space in the mix.
I have also just finished an edit of another trance track Sand Dream, which has also been mixed with the Lexicon PCM91. The edit combines the introduction and breakdown to make an interesting ambient piece. I will post this shortly, as I may make a few more changes before releasing it.


24-July-2004
Finally started updating the site. The extracts from the tracks Utoquai, San Lorenzo and Gondola have been re-mastered. A new Mollases edt will be posted shortly, as I have made a new mix of the track.

The Contemporary Dance Elements 1 CD is now finished. All the tracks have been re-mastered, which improves the sound and Gondola was also re-mixed. I have included the excerpts of 3 of the tracks, which are of approximately 1 minute 30 second duration, at the beginning, followed by the 2 ambient intros from Utoquai and Gondola and a 3 minute 30 second edit of San Lorenzo. These are then followed by the full tracks. I think this should make the CD much more useful for people who need a short piece.


30-April-2004
The page Track Excerpts has been added, here you can find a 90 second mp3 taken from the new Penboa track Utoquai. Two extracts taken from the most recent trance track, Mollases have also been added.


23-April 2004
I have now added the Future Music Review, a page on the creative process and a revised Studio Profile.


21-April-2004
The new website is being constructed!... Over the next few days expect many changes.