Sunday, January 28, 2024

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.


Friday, May 12, 2023

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)

 

 

Friday, August 7, 2020

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

 




Wednesday, July 1, 2020

"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

 


Saturday, June 13, 2020

Where land meets water on Spotify 30th June 2020

The title track of the new EP will be on Spotify 30th June. "Just Mayflies" will be on Spotify probably 5th August, most likely with the other two tracks. I think I'll release the whole thing on Bandcamp sometime between mid July and early August.

Saturday, May 16, 2020

New release soon.


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Well soonish. "Where Land meets water" is complete and I'll be releasing tracks first on the streaming services and then on Bandcamp.

It's a sort of follow on from "Winter Music" but less dark and cold. Music of summer this time.

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Winter Music on general release


After it's release on Bandcamp https://markgriffiths.bandcamp.com/album/winter-music last February, the album has gone on release on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon etc.

You can still listen for free on my Youtube channel Mark Ellery Griffiths YouTube or my Bandcamp Bandcamp page

I wanted this to be a understated pastoral album. It is "small" in the way that many of us in northern climes make ourselves as small as possible as a retreat from the cold. The first track "Across the Snow" is a memory of a walk I took in the 1970s alone as a boy around a local farm. It had snowed quite heavily. There were footprints in the snow, birds and small mammals. I remember hearing the chack chack of fieldfares flying overhead in the peculiar acoustics of a frozen landscape. There are a number of atmospheric recordings on the album recorded on the same day the cover photo was taken. Other tracks reflect other winter moods and memories.  

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 ...