Preparing For My First Trip To China

I’ve been on some weird trips in my time, possibly the strangest being my trip through Europe with an acoustic guitar and 2000 modelling balloons. Nothing though can prepare me for the trip I am about to embark on.

Lin and I have been engaged now for about 6 a month and a half and I have met her parents online a few times. Her mum said after we got engaged “But we haven’t even met him.” Lin explained that “It’s me that’s marrying him, not you” in her smiling way.

There is a lot riding on this trip on my first trip to China. I have to make a good impression on Lin’s parents and I have to ensure that they know that their daughter entering the best marriage they can wish for her. All this and with the power of language. I don’t speak Chinese and they don’t speak English. As I said to Lin they will probably only get her version of me. In other words, if she thinks what I say is a bit too full-on or “Cormac-like” she can adapt to what they want to hear. Whilst I think this will be mostly the case I know that they will probably get to know the real me. After all I will be with them for almost 2 weeks.

So in preparing for my first trip to China I am thinking that I cannot really prepare for it. Lin assures me that I will have nothing to worry about.

Bring it on!

Ireland – The Good Part Of England

Been a bit busy of late with work. Met my future parents-in-law again on Skype today. My future father-in-law was explaining to my wife-to-be that he was speaking with a friend.
The friend: “How’s your daughter getting on? Where is she?”
The future father-in-law: “Oh aye she’s getting on great like. She’s over in England.”
The friend: “England! Very good! And has she got a boyfriend or anything?”
The future father-in-law: “Aye she has. Actually she’s engaged to be married.”
The friend: “Married? That’s great news! And is he husband-to-be from England.”
The future father-in-law: “He is aye.”
The friend: “Very good! Very good! Where in England is he from?”
The future father-in-law: “He’s from Ireland.”
The friend: “Ireland! Great! I have heard that it’s a good part of England.”

When Lin explained this to me she explained that in China they all call UK and Ireland “England.” I explained that this should be corrected. She explained that I shouldn’t worry about these little things.

They requested we play them a song so we played a simple waltz by Offenbach on violin and guitar. They were very impressed and happy to hear it.

Oh How A Man Can Change

Up until a couple of months ago my house was a total manifestation of utter selfishness. I’d do whatever it was that I wanted in there and that usually meant doing whatever it is that I wanted. Housework was neglected for hours, nay days, actually it was more like years. I shit you not.

I would throw whatever I wanted whereever I wanted. I would lie on the floor and play banjo loudly or else stay up working til about 3am if I wanted – which I usually did more often than I really should have.

I always thought that whoever ended up with me would need to leave me the hell alone for about 5 or 6 days a week for us to get along. I never considered that I’d actually have someone live with me. Oh how a man can change…

Lin has been living with me for about a couple of months and since then I have had a handful of days “off” where I haven’t been tidying up the shitpit that is my home.

Alas it no longer is a shitpit for it is no longer my home. It is “our” home. And such a lovely home it is too. I still have my 3 basses, 3 acoustics, 4 electrics, mandolin, lap steel and mandolin in the living room – along with her electric piano, guzheug and violin.

In the past I would have written/said: Beware the love of a good woman. Now I think it is “Beware of yourself! Don’t get so far up your own arse that you cannot see the goodness of the woman.” (Or man whatever you fancy.)

We hired a van on Sunday and moved the rest of her stuff in. Just as our home was having some order it descended into a total mess again.

About a month ago when I mentioned the idea of us getting a maid Lin explained to me that these are “happy tasks”. I laughed at her goodness.

She’s such a positive girl. A real lovely person. So lovely that she doesn’t even see housework as that bad shit that you have to do to get your life into some form of manageable order. She is really the opposite of me. She is changing me.

Now if you don’t mind I have some happy tasks to attend to.

 

 

Meeting My Father-In-Law

It’s weird meeting your father-in-law for the first time. It’s weirder when not of you speak a shared language. It’s even weirder when you’re meeting him via the web on Skype! I’d already met Lin’s mother about 3 weeks ago in there.

I met Lin’s father last Saturday. “Ni hao shūshu?” (“How are you uncle?” – It’s polite of me to call him that apparently until I am married and then I am to call him Dad!). After that greeting I found that I had exhausted all my Chinese, unless I wanted to count to ten or ask him if something tastes good. So then I sat there whilst Lin translated to him, then to me, then to him. He smiled a lot and I smiled back. I did find it all very surreal. Probably not as surreal for him.

It’s difficult to convey personalities to each other in that situation. After some time Lin’s mum entered the Skype room and so I got the banjo out (at Lin’s request) and played a couple of songs to both Lin’s parents – Zauchensee Waltz, which is a song I wrote, and Amapola. They made positive noises which seemed to suggest that they liked what I played.

I go to to China next week. I haven’t been further east than the Czech Republic. It’s going to be a big shock I suspect. Music is a great way of communicating. The plan is to buy a guitar, or some stringed instrument and leave it out there so at least I will have something to amuse them all with.

Lin tells me that Chinese is very easy. There are no plurals nor singulars. Also there is only the infinitive version of verbs. I’m pretty confident I can learn a good deal in my first trip. Gonna be a real shock to the system though. A good shock.

Choosing A Great Engagement Ring For A Great Price

As I blogged recently I just recently got engaged to a girl from China. I proposed with a ring I bought on a stall in a shopping mall in Birmingham for 8 quid knowing that I would get her a “proper” one down the line. Lin and I considered all the options:

  1. Getting one made up in England
  2. Going to America to buy one some weekend
  3. Getting one from a shop in Manchester which does amazing discounts to “special” people
  4. Getting one in China
  5. Buying the different bits in China and having it made in China

Buying a diamond in China you pay high import tax so that wasn’t really an option. Incredibly the best value was buying one from an english based  company called Quality Diamonds. Whilst shopping around elsewhere I found that the ring which was “perfect” for us was priced at almost £4k. Not wanting to give my woman anything other than perfection I contacted Quality Diamonds who were able to give me the same ring for less that £2k.

Yes, but would it be a diamond all covered in blood and bits of guts from some army’s mine? Apparently not. These diamonds are GIA certified. So that means that they are “ethicial”. (I know I am doing a lot of quotation marks in this post – I am trying to stop that.)

I got a call from Sarah at Quality Diamonds yesterday. The ring came in the post today along with a certificate and even a valuation. All in a lovely presentable box. The ring looks really amazing. Now I am getting ready to go meet my lady to propose to her again in the same spot at the same time except this time with a “proper” ring. Oh, and a bunch of flowers ;-)

Sting Criticizes X Factor As TV Karaoke

Is Sting my new hero? TV karaoke indeed – I think he is being overly complimentary a bit actually. Here’s what he had to say about the X Factor in yesterday’s London Evening Standard:

“I am sorry but none of those kids are going to go anywhere, and I say that sadly. They are humiliated when they get sent off. How appalling for a young person to feel that rejection. It is a soap opera which has nothing to do with music. In fact, it has put music back decades. Television is very cynical.”

“I tried to keep an open mind, but basically I was looking at televised karaoke where they conform to stereo-types. They are either Mariah Carey or Whitney Houston or Boyzone and are not encouraged to create any real unique signature or fingerprint. That cannot come from TV. The X Factor is a preposterous show and you have judges who have no recognisable talent apart from self-promotion, advising them what to wear and how to look. It is appalling.”

“The real shop floor for musical talent is pubs and clubs, that is where the original work is. But they are being closed down on a daily basis. It is impossible to put an act on in a pub. It has become too expensive through excessive regulations. The music industry has been hugely important to England, bringing in millions. If anyone thinks the X Factor is going to do that, they are wrong.”

Too right Sting mate. And who is he to say all this you might ask? A guy of 11 Grammys, two Brits, a Golden Globe, an Emmy and three Oscar nominations. If you agree with Sting do not watch the show. Go out and see some live music.

Want To Learn How To Use Social Media For Business Benefits?

Want to know more about Twitter, Facebook, wikis, RSS, blogging and social bookmarking etc?I am running a workshop on November 17th called:

Social Business – Making sense of Social Media

Come if you would like to learn how to use social media for the good of your business, or even if you want to learn how social networking for personal benefit.

I will be joined by my Bright Beehive colleague Nick O’Doherty and the event is being put on as a joint collaboration with Idea Space. It should be good fun as well as hugely informative.

My other blog – Bright Beehive Blog – is a great source of information about this area. Click if you would like to become a fan of the Bright Beehive Page.

Backstage With Steve Earle’s Guitar Technician, Russ Garett

During his Townes tour of Van Zandt songs Steve had a problem with one of his signature Martin guitars. Steve’s guitar tech and stage soundman Russ Garett gave London based luthier and guitar repairs man Graham Parker a call and Graham was able to save the day. As a result Russ kindly gave Graham a couple of back stage passes. As Graham’s partner was off singing jazz songs to the likes of Jay-Z Graham kindly invited me to come along. I did, with my trusty Canon G9. Here’s the results:

Read the review of the show

Guitar Town – Live In Barbican, London

Here’s a video of Steve Earle playing Guitar Town live in Barbican last night. More to come!

Steve Earle Gig Review – Barbican London 2009

Steve Earle is touring his album of Van Zandt songs entitled Townes. Last night he played the Barbican to a sell out crowd. Steve had a bit of a crisis on his hands with his main Martin and my buddy Graham Parker fixed it for him. In fact Graham fixed it twice. Yesterday he got a call saying that his temporary fix didn’t last too long – Steve changes his strings after every gig. So Graham replaced the nut. Whilst doing so he noticed that the strings were too close to the neck. This caused the strings to slip off the neck every so often so whilst replacing the nut he made amends to the where the strings sat on the neck. I’m getting technical here, I’ll stop.

As a result of Graham’s help Steve’s guitar tech Russ Garett gave Steve two complimentary passes. We met up with Steve and Russ before the gig and had a brief chat. Steve was in pretty good form chatting away about his signature guitar. Graham explained that Les Paul used to get $50 for every guitar made. Steve explained that he got more than that, about $150. “Wow!” Graham and I said. “Yeah but I just give it to charity,” Steve replied. “When you make a load of money doing what I do as a Marxist what else can you do with it?” What a guy!

The gig was awesome. Steve was on great form chatting away talking at length about his relationship with Townes. How Townes heckled him in 1972 when Steve was just 17, how they became friends, how Townes visited Steve’s house and saw Steve looking bad and his arms looking worse.  Steve also said how appreciative he was of the audience’s reception of the album and how his only regret was that Townes wasn’t around to enjoy it with him.

Steve got two standing ovations and seemed really humbled. Graham and I made our way onto the stage and made some movies of Russ striking the stage where Russ explained a bit about Steve’s set up.

Backstage Steve told Graham that the guitar felt great, “Plays like a fucking Martin should!”

Was a great evening out. Great to see Steve play on such fine form and meet the man. A true gent.

Read about the trip backstage.

Graham Parker and Steve Earle

Dating Is Like Gambling – You’ve Got To Know When To Cash In Your Chips

I’ve never been a gambling man. Thank God! My Aunt Teresa (God rest her soul) told me that gambling is the worst ever disease. “For every addiction, whether it’s drink, drugs, or whatever, your body will tell you when you have had enough – except for gambling. You can lose all your money, your house and even your family but it’s up to you to learn when you’ve had enough. Your body won’t tell you”

Dating is like a night at the casino. You go out in some nice clothes after having had a shower so you don’t smell too bad. You awkwardly make your way in and stumble up to a few spots where you think you might get lucky. You win some, you lose some. You win big, you lose big. It’s just a series of ups and downs. Eventually you have to decide when you are not going to get any better and cash in your chips.

Where dating is different of course is that it takes two people to decide whether or not your time to cash in your chips is the right time or not. I have in the past decided “OK this is fine for me, I’ll just cash in my chips now. I’ve had a wonderful time but I think that’s me for the evening.” Then you go to the cashier and get mugged. Then it’s back to withdrawing more money.

To be honest I haven’t properly thought this through. What are your thoughts? Have you got a better metaphor? Tell me: Dating is like…. what?

Things To Get Your Head Around When Involved With A Chinese

So I am getting married to a Chinese girl. (Never saw that one coming.) God has got funny dice…

There are some things to get your head around when you get involved with a Chinese person.

  1. They don’t all smoke because “it’s cool”.
  2. They don’t all smoke.
  3. They are really superstitious.
  4. They may not talk about their superstitions but that doesn’t mean that that they aren’t superstitious.
  5. They are incredibly polite individuals – generally.
  6. The land that they come from, China, is actually huge – 1.3 billion people live there (out of the planet’s 6 billion).
  7. They all believe that they are equal and know that some are more equal than others.
  8. They know that the difference in the east and the west is not a lot – except the east is better of course.
  9. Up until recently all the Chinese people were issued a home by the state.
  10. They seem to all like Disney.

I find the last point particularly strange considering Disney’s anti-communist stance.  There are loads of other things I have learnt about the Chinese but I’ll save them for the years to come. I have never been to China. Am going at end of November… to meet my parents-in-law. Met them before on Skype of course you understand. How the world has changed…

So I am getting married to a Chinese girl. (Really never saw that one coming. Not in a million years.) The Chinese, being the superstitious people that they are believe that they can only marry on certain days. Actually they believe that some days are ok for getting married on, others are lucky days and there’s the definite days not to get married on. As a sign of confidence we are getting hitched on one of the regular days.

Then there is the fact that we are having two ceremonies: one in England and one in China. Lín had to check that it’s ok for us to have two ceremonies and it’s is – it could very easily have been bad luck to have two ceremonies so it’s best to check.

So I am getting married to a Chinese girl, in England and then in China. As I say, you can’t plan these things. You can only go along with what life throws at you. I’m enjoying the journey. Speaking of journeys, the Chinese involves me dressing up in a red robe and riding a horse and Lín tucked away in a carriage being carried by some locals. I hear there’ll be 500 guests at our wedding in China. Cool!

Time To Get Honest, Time To Grow Up

I met a Chinese girl at the start of October 2008. She was very cute and very sweet. I had no plans to settle down in England so I never thought it’d turn into anything serious, but as with everything in my life I just went along with it.

With that defeatist thinking it took a lot of growing up for me to realise that this very cute and very sweet girl was also very adorable. I really had a lot of growing up to do to realise that this girl was worth holding onto. I had a lot lot to get my head around though: she’s Chinese for a start.

What does that mean? It means that she is an only child and her parents live on the other side of the planet. It also means that I’ll probably not be able to have a deep and meaningful conversation with them within the next five years at least anyway. So yeah, a hell of a lot to get my head around.

I am sure there are quotes out there that someone can help me with but the one that springs to my mind now is that love knows no bounds. I just got sucked up into the whole thing. I was so reluctant at the start. I was actually dismissive, but the more honest and true she kept being, the more adorable she became. And the more precious.

A year ago my life was a horribly selfish affair. I had been living in London for a long time and the whole London thing had turned me into a man who’d become so jaded with wasting time he’d be selfish with every second of his day. I didn’t care too much about what people thought of me: as long as I was getting the most out of any given situation. I know I was not always like that. I stepped up the gears to adapt to London life. Now, after spending time with a girl who can only be described as pure, I dissolved back into my old self. My old self of the Irish countryside and all the time in the world to spend in the happy moment. How could I possibly not hold onto this girl?

Yeah, yeah, like it’s all my decision. Like it’s my choice that we end up together. Absolute nonsense. Love is a two way street, and often there are roadworks going on. I nearly lost her. Loads of times. In fact she even dumped me once (or twice) (or maybe even three times) but there is a very strange belief in China. If you are to be together then it has been decided before you were born. So somehow, on this path that shouldn’t hold any traffic, with these two people who’s worlds are the furthest apart – both in terms of geography and in terms of culture – love was flowing; the traffic was continuing.

I’ve been blogging for a long time but have never blogged about my love life. Now that changes. Lín and I are getting married and I want to track this time. I want to capture it and share it, as well as making my blog a bit more wholesome. It’s a leap of faith, but isn’t that what marriage is all about?

Growing Up In Public

Image by Walt Jabsco

Image by Walt Jabsco

When I first started blogging in 2001 I put up a recording I made with a friend who was acting as someone else. I was playing the part of a mock-interviewer. In a way that first foray into exposing myself online I used a mask. Since that time I have slowly been revealing more and more of the real me: real opinions and thoughts. Up until about recently I kept two things secret: who I worked for and who I dated. In 2007 I then came out of the employer’s closet and told people who I worked for. Now I am taking that final step into the online world and I have decided to blog about my love life.

She Sells Sanctuary – Banjo Mix

I was so inspired by The Cult’s gig at Royal Albert Hall the other day I learnt She Sells Sanctuary and played it in New Cross Inn on Tuesday night. The crowd seemed to like it. Thanks to Seb for the camera work :-)

The Most Awesome Video Ever

Thanks to Katie Grayson for sending this to me. I wonder if it is good collaboration or some crazed dictitatorial director. Either way it is amazing.

The Cult – Original Line Up Perform At Royal Albert Hall: Review

The Cult performed their entire Love album as part of their “Love” Live Tour and then some of their later stuff. The band consisting of Billy Duffy (guit) and Ian Astbury (voc) with John Tempesta (drums), Mike Dimkich (rhy guitar) and Chris Wyse (bass) played a blinding set and a rocking encore. The sound was awesome even in the nosebleeds. Duffy played on two White Falcons, one of which is the original he used for the Love album  which he claims never comes out of the cupboard. For the first encore he played a selection of Les Pauls.

Astbury and Duffy then came back out and introduced the additional members from original line up Jamie Stewart (bass) and Mark Brzezicki (drums). Was nice to be there for that. I managed to capture some of She Sells Santuary before I ran out of memory for my camera.

  1. “Nirvana”
  2. “Big Neon Glitter”
  3. “Love”
  4. “Brother Wolf, Sister Moon”
  5. “Rain”
  6. “The Phoenix”
  7. “Hollow Man”
  8. “Revolution”
  9. “Sanctuary”
  10. “Black Angel”

Encore 1:

  1. “Electric Ocean”
  2. “Wildflower”
  3. “Sun King”
  4. “Rise”
  5. “Dirty Little Rockstar”
  6. “Fire Woman”
  7. “Love Removal Machine”

Encore 2: With Jamie Stewart and Mark Brzezicki

  1. “The Phoenix”
  2. “Sanctuary”

Beat It / Ace Of Spades – On Banjo

Performed this last night in the New Cross Inn.

Longplayer Live – Review Of The First Performance

It has been said that no artist completes his work he merely abandons it. What about scientists doing artistic projects then? Jem Finer, banjo player of the Pogues and graduate of computer science has come up with a piece of music that is due to run for 1000 years (without looping) called Longplayer. Yesterday was the first live performance of a piece of the music.

The performance lasted 1000 minutes running from 08:20 on Sat 12 Sept 2009 until 01:00 Sun 13 Sep 2009 BST. Using 234 bowls and six players Longplayer Live was performed in the Roundhouse in Camden.

I had been to Longplayer’s flagship location at the Lighthouse in Trinity Buoy Wharf, London before but it gave me no preparation in terms of what to expect for the live show. The Roundhouse was transformed into a temple.

Bowls sitting on six wooden circles differing in size spanning the Roundhouse. People sitting around, mostly meditating. The space was delicately lit. The sound PA was arranged in a circular fashion which meant that the sound was bouncing off the walls in the best fashion. In fact if there were any space made for this piece of music this was it.

I got talking with Douglas Benford who was about to go perform. He explained that the performers had a visual score and rotated every 10 minutes. He also explained that he was on in about one minute so I let him go.

I took some pictures and then chilled out.

When I was leaving I noticed that I had slowed down. I wasn’t feeling rushed. I was in the now.I got talking with Laura Williams who had been performing. She elaborated on the arrangement of the music explaining that the visual score had got to do with pegs and pieces of wood. She said that musically it was very interesting to play as you could hear all the harmonics shift along. After some talking it turned out that Laura was the lady behind the Aluna project. She then explained to me that the earth, moon and the sun were in the same place every 19 years. For fear of my head exploding due to all the mathematics I left.

I turned to my friend and asked her what she thought she said “It was like a temple.” I have to agree.

This project is truly staggering and mindblowing project. Every time I look into it again I am left astounded.

Handy links

Interview with Jem Finer – Made during the piece by Documentally

BBC Review

Final hour and a half of the live performance

Kurt Cobain As Bon Jovi On Guitar Hero

Please tell me on how many levels the wrongness of which this is, thanks.

(Note that he is wearing a Daniel Johnston Hi How Are You tshirt as he wore towards the end.)

Walking The Cow Video

I recorded this song a couple of years back. It’s a great song by Daniel Johnston. I have always meant to record it “properly” but hey Daniel has yet to do that also. I stuck the song on my iPhone and walked about the London Eye with my Canon G9 on video mode. I would have liked there to have been more of my legs but I also would have liked to have had a tambourine from the second verse onwards. I am pleased with the outcome. It’s difficult walking at that pace in amongst all those people. I might get back into recording again. It’s been over a year since I recorded something properly.

All Bosses Should Ban Facebook Says Theo Paphitis

Picture by spentrails

Picture by spentrails

“The explosion in online activity has resulted in an orgy of self-indulgence and exhibitionism” says TV Dragon Theo Paphitis and all bosses should copy him and “ban Facebook from the workplace.”

Time-wasters will time-waste and they don’t need Facebook to do it.

Social sites do offer great opportunities for people to collaborate. Now even McKinsey are writing about ‘How companies are benefiting from Web 2.0′. With these guys championing it you can bet that the big companies of this world will be listening to some well invested research rather than the rants of a man who sells stationary and whose wife (Mrs. P) plays online bingo every night – by his own admission.

Hackpact #3



My photos are getting a bit more adventurous for hackpact.

The Cult – Love Live Tour

Here’s the setlist from the Cult’s gig in Prince’s pad First Avenue in Minneapolis:

  • Nirvana
  • Big Neon Glitter
  • Love
  • Brother Wolf, Sister Moon
  • Rain
  • The Phoenix
  • Hollow Man
  • Revolution
  • Sanctuary
  • Black Angel

Encore:

  • Electric Ocean
  • Wildflower
  • Illuminated
  • Rise
  • Fire Woman
  • Dirty Little Rockstar
  • Love Removal Machine

Basically it’s the Love album with some of their rockier stuff at the end. I’m going to check them out in Royal Albert Hall in London next month. Should be great. Have you seen them on this tour? What did you think?

Hackpact #2

Hackpact

My coding friend alex (aka yaxu) has instigated a month long event called Hackpact. For fear of mixing his message I quote:

In the tradition of daily live coding practice a few people have formed a hack pact to make something new every day in September.  I’ve got a London Haskell User Group talk coming up on September 17th and a livecoding gig at the planetarium in Plymouth on 21st September, so my daily hack will be focussed on getting my Haskell stuff in order and practicing with it.  I’ll document my progress on this blog.

In other news, a couple of film crews attended the last pubcode, and the bbc feature has appeared on their website.  Features excellent livecoded algorithmic dancing from Yee-King and Click Nilson.

I wanted to get involved but this month I will struggle with time. I requested if I could post images. alex encouraged my input saying “The point isn’t to dedicate loads of time, but to have discipline to practice creating something every day.”

So get involved if you want to! Here is the link to my Hackpact activity.

The Moon Is On Fire

Photo by FatMandy

Photo by FatMandy

Saw The Moon in Montague Arms a couple of Fridays ago. In fact it was the night before I went to see U2 in Wembley. The Moon have been going through a number of line-up changes lately but now they seem to have hit on a great line up.

Big Jim is still on guitar and Seb is on Drums. Now Phil has moved from other guitar over to bass and Joe Moon is still providing the vocals.

The Montague Arms is a great venue. Recently been voted the best rough pub in Britain. It’s a cavern of unpredictability and the perfect scene to see The Moon perform. Joe Moon was on fire that night. Bucklepping like a wild eejit on crystal meth he lit the place up with his energy. The band were sitting the grooves down as solid as anything.

I was there with my mate Dave who was in total awe of the Montague. (If you haven’t been there, go!) Dave then turned round to me during The Moon’s set and said, “These guys are great. Every song is completely different to the next one.” We then talked about the overall sound: Stooges; The Fall; Punk; Ska; Michael Hutchence!

Between The Moon and Zombie Met Girl, there is a musical greatness happening in South East London. Unfortunately I missed ZMG who were supporting that night – though I have seen them and they are awesome.

The Moon are on fire. If you haven’t seen them, do. If you get an opportunity to see them in the Montague, go. If Zombie Met Girl are on the same bill, be there.

At Notting Hill Carnival

At Notting Hill Carnival

Bad Disco on Radio 3 tonight

My mate Ed Bennett’s ‘Bad Disco’ is being played on Radio3 tonight at 10:45. Check it out on the Radio3 website.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces an intriguing selection of instrumental and electro-acoustic music recorded by the Ulster Orchestra in Belfast.

Michael Alcorn: Mambo (1998) 9:03
Ed Bennett: Bad Disco (2008) 6:43
Piers Hellawell: Degrees of Separation (2004) 10:52
Ulster Orchestra
Fergus Shiel (conductor)

Michael Alcorn: Synapse (2003) 6:59
Andriessen: Dances (1991) 24:07
Marije van Stralen (soprano)
Ulster Orchestra
Gavin Maloney (conductor)

All The World Is Green

Recorded Sept 2008 in Montague Arms, New Cross, London

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