Oxford Dawns Electronica Collection.

 The Oxford Dawns Electronica Collection covers various dance style, synthwave and up-tempo oddments from the 21^st century.

 

 Oxford Dawns on Youtube

Youtube Channel

 The Youtube channel has been up and running for nearly a year now, here's the link

https://www.youtube.com/@markgriffiths5122

Our last day in the fields

 I've just released "Our last day in the fields", a sort of hauntological folk ambient album from 2017.

 

https://markgriffiths.bandcamp.com/album/our-last-day-in-the-fields-2017

Release Plans & experiment

One thing I wanted to do is to give the kind of back ground and news to support my new You Tube channel & bandcamp sites.

I have no idea whether it will reach anyone or whether the Facebook page is a better bet, but I'm putting the same thing up on both sites, I'll then review later to see if anything is being read

So to plans.....

I'm intending to put up music on both Bandcamp (free or pay what you like) and Youtube every 3 weeks for 2024. I still have alot of old stuff which people seem to like and I'll be going through that and for this year is probably going to be the bulk of what is going to be published.

I have material from 1982-83, also “From the Trees” from the early 90s and a few other previously unreleased tracks from the mid 90s. There is then material from about 2005-2010 that was published only of Soundclick so far.

I’ll be working my way through those between working on new material.

Old Tides (Ambient)

 A new ambient track, the notes read "Underwater, old tides pull and push the wreck of a wooden ship. I can still feel them."

(Also seems I have a lot of catching up to do on the blog).

 

 Old Tides (Bandcamp)

 

 

Where land meets water EP

The full EP is now out. Free download on Bandcamp and it can be streamed on Spotify (see below). It's also available on Amazon, Apple Music, Deezer etc.

This is what I wrote for the release: "“Where land meets water” celebrates my fascination with the landscape, nature and atmosphere of lakes I have visited here and abroad, particularly during my childhood in the 60s and 70s. There is something special about them, not just their natural history but that they are places where happy memories are often made.
 

Lakeside Picnic 1966
A memory of a visit to a lake in Surrey in the south of England. Sadly none of the family can remember which one and looking at pictures of the lakes I think I recognise several so I can’t retrospectively pinpoint which one. The date may or may not be correct. The happy memory abides but is de-localised in time and space.
 

Where land meets water
I think I’m more in the present day with this piece but instrument wise it is firmly in the past, piano from the early 20th century, an electric fan organ from the 50s, mellotron from the 60s and an ARP synthesiser and string machines from the 70s.
 

Lullaby for a mayfly
This heavily features the tiny Hohner Organetta from the 50s. It uses an electric fan to blow air through it’s reeds and has a wistful of accordion/ harmonium sound.
 

Just Mayflies
In this I tried to create a picture of mayflies dancing over the water. But it also reflects that we are just mayflies ourselves and after the revels of the day by the lakeside eventually we all have to go home.

Bandcamp

https://markgriffiths.bandcamp.com/album/where-land-meets-water

Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/album/6rdhKLUaKDrbSUUDGo8MWJ?si=karQDYJJSDqKe_zbmSzeGg

 

"Where land meets water" out on Spotify

At last the first track from my forthcoming EP is out on Spotify. “Where land meets water” celebrates my fascination with the landscape, nature and atmosphere of lakes I have visited here and abroad, particularly during my childhood in the 60s and 70s. There is something special about them, not just their natural history but that they are places where happy memories are often made.

https://open.spotify.com/album/1WA0jzvJ938cRR3VCmwoO3?si=8t2i-pSiRPix_JBGtSyr9w