by MikeD | Dec 19, 2017 | Music
It was on our way to a memorial golf day in Indonesia that my colleague, Adrian Love, showed me some excellent black and white footage he’d shot on his iPhone of a recent rainstorm, including some rather beautiful slow-motion and reversed sections. This...
by MikeD | Dec 27, 2016 | Music
So, this track is a good example of a positive outcome coming, obliquely, from an apparently negative event. I was on a business trip to Tokyo in December 2012, and thoroughly looking forward to getting back to the relative sanity of Singapore. On my final day in...
by MikeD | Dec 27, 2016 | Music
Fast forward to Feb 2013; nearly two years had passed since I’d finished a track, and this was to be a complete departure from what had gone before. I decided to create a classic, pared-down “singer/songwriter” track with only acoustic guitar...
by MikeD | Dec 24, 2016 | Music
I recall listening to my completed mix of “November End” on the Narita airport limousine bus that took me into Tokyo, early one morning (after an overnight flight) at the beginning of March 2011. I was to work there for a couple of weeks to start up an...
by MikeD | Dec 23, 2016 | Music
#5 (and effectively final) track in the “Resolution” series, this took me a little longer than the month I’d committed to, as it was finished in Feb 2011 (rather than the planned Dec 2010 completion date). But, I’ll forgive myself. The...