Guillotine the Princess (Single)

Just uploaded the 1st new track of the Chiropteran album I’m working on as a single to Bandcamp.

Abusive families

Had a major meltdown yesterday, that had been building for a while, curtesy of my fiancé’s family. It was caused from their reaction to me protecting and supporting the man I love. They are lazy, selfish, privileged and abusive imbeciles that obviously don’t respect others. In order to move past this I need to get this off my chest and thinking the most productive way I have dealt with this sort of thing in the past was to get it out in song form. To do this I’m planning a new Chiropteran album with the working title “Amputate the Weldons & Co.”, as for heath reasons I need to remove them from our life. I have 5 songs ideas already and only started planning and writing today.

Weeping With The Willows

I’ve been depressed about climate change, continual pollution and the damage it is causing for a while. I thought I should express myself instead of bottling it up so I write a song: Weeping With The Willows. To accompany it I made a video of a drawing I produced for the song.

I have been writing other things as well but felt I should leave them and focus of this which is pressing on my mind atm. I will get to the other tracks later and feel they have a very different mood so will release separately. I’ve put Weeping With The Willows up by it self on Bandcamp.

Existing

Finished the 4th Chiropteran album entitled Existing, it is 9 tracks long 4 of which are instrumentals. I had been working on some of the songs for over a year and had made film clips for 2 of them using earlier mixes of the songs. Different to previous work I used a cello instead of violin or bowed guitar.

End of T1 2019

I’ve finished the trimester!!! Just now waiting for final grades. I have enrolled in one more course, Emerging Topics In Conservation, to finish the bachelor.

I was walking home from the doctors after seeing the Physiotherapist about my bad back when I was attacked by a dog. As I was entering my street a Border Collie ran over to me, jumped up and bit my arm near my elbow while the owners watched. The dog was called back after it bit me and I continued walking as was in shock. I sustained two puncture wounds and was put on a course of antibiotics. I’m trying to get past this but my fear of dogs is at a new high.

Trying to continue on with my music while I’m on break. Just finishing off my Chiropteran album and released 2 tracks as a tester and a reason to push myself to complete it all.

Chiropteran’s 4th

I’ve been getting back into my music and have gone through ideas I wrote done months to a year ago. I’ve got about 8 songs that I’m working on and planning to release them as a Chiropteran album with the working title of ‘Existing’. I think that title is weak so planning to change it before release. The album will include some recent songs like Better Than Crutches but I’m hoping to rework them a little because I’m not happy with how they sound yet.

Continuing recording

I was spurred on after the retake of Better Than Crutches to move on to other songs I had written. The next one I chose was entitled Fit In and was an attempt at explaining my difficulties with operating in human civilization. I’m not sure about this one musically, I’ve tried to create something that doesn’t sound normal however still almost traditional. I think I’m just going to leave this one for the moment and have a look at it much later. I have some more ideas to move on to but not sure what direction musically to head in. I seem to be all over the place and I’m far from confident in my abilities. Really wondering why I do this, no-one likes my music – not even myself.

Better Than Crutches

Finished a compete retake of a song I wrote about my wonderful partner. I’m much happier with this version due to it’s lightness, I was always trying to produce something that he’d like. A lot of his favorite music is pop, rnb and rap, definitely different to my music. I’ve also made a film clip which is just a slideshow of photos I’ve taken of him.

Bats Are Vital (take 2)

Just finished and I think this is a much better this time round. I tried to make good arguments in a more accessible way.

Bats are Vital (retake)

I’m trying to do a retake on Bats Are Vital!!! the song I did a few years ago when I was very angry. This time I’m trying to produce a piece about how vital they are and try to win people over instead of pushing humans away. The idea started from a uni class where we have to find ways to educate the public about scientific facts.