2007 - People 1

Writing for the different weddings and workshops had opened a door into a new way of creating themes. 2007 was a development of that approach combined with a growing familiarity with the workings of the Korg Triton. Heath, Wendi and Victoria are all two voice pieces where the piano track is recorded first and the string part recorded on top immediately afterward. Emma is a solo piano piece.

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Heath (27:59)[audio:heath2.5.mp3 |titles=Heath |artists=music2work2]
Wendi at 40 (22:52)[audio:wendi40strings2.5.mp3 |titles=Wendi at 40 |artists=music2work2]
Emma's (20:04)[audio:emma2.5.mp3 |titles=Emma |artists=music2work2]
Victoria(7:15)[audio:victoria2.5.mp3 |titles=Victoria |artists=music2work2]

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The Early Years - Part 1

This album covers the years between 2000 and 2005, when the whole idea of music2work2 was starting to take shape. My sister Victoria's wedding drove the initial impetus to produce something tangible - Arrival and the Anam Cara were both played during the ceremony. A little more experimentation and another wedding resulted in the development of Jax's theme. Sexercise was written for a workshop on women's sexual energy - I know - sometimes as musicians we have to make sacrifices for the greater good - and finally, Beautiful came along just when things were at their bleakest.

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Arrival (17:50)[audio:arrival2.5.mp3 |titles=Arrival |artists=music2work2]
Anam Cara (1:28)[audio:anamcara.mp3 |titles=Anam Cara |artists=music2work2]
Jax's Theme(5:27)[audio:jax2.5.mp3 |titles=Jax Wedding theme|artists=music2work2]
Sexercise (30:57)[audio:sexercise2.5.mp3 | titles=Sexercise|artists=music2work2]
Beautiful (2:07)[audio:beautifulmp3.mp3 | titles=Beautiful|artists=music2work2]

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Beautiful - 1 Minutes 39 Seconds

Short, delicate piece written for strings and piano that gave me hope

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Follow Your Dreams – that’s what they say. Move to Los Angeles, become a Rock Star – or not. Choose to study, to practice - to the detriment of the normal niceties that are supposed to accompany a life. Everybody has their own journey and no-one’s is the same...

I live in terror of not being good enough, of being the delusional incompetent who has spent his time unwisely and probably selfishly in pursuit of something that was never going to be. I suspect that every creative lives with this, although I’m pretty sure that people like B.B King or Paul McCartney don’t sweat the small stuff anymore.

This piece had something in it that allowed me to continue; to believe that if I just worked hard enough and long enough, that everything would be OK. It’s not really music2work2, more of a marker on the way to what music2work2 would become, but it gave me hope at a very dark time and for that – I called it Beautiful.

The photo is my beautiful wife - Wendi - on our wedding day

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