Something I composed with the idea that God would have looked upon us today and thought "What the hell have I created?".
Releasing the Chariot of the Gods
A juxtaposition of soundscaping and orchestral composition. I liked the idea of aggressive drums and disturbing sounds, exploding into a Gladiatorial style build up.
A piano composition that I intend to orchestrate one day for my Piano album.
I'll re record the piano before then in order to work on the orchestration.
I imagined what it would be like as the storm built up.
With todays climate changes, the prevalence of storms is a normal daily occurrence.
Originally composed it for the piano album, but as it was intended for an artist to sing, I managed to ask John Giles my Toyshop Murders writing partner to come up with the lyrics. Sadly...as the story goes, the artist didn't stick to his word and then I thought "I know the perfect person to sing this". Steve Balsamo has been a friend and colleague for many years. I MD'd Steve's touring when he was signed to Sony and we worked together on the Jon Lord gig and the Celebrating Jon Lord concert. I recently did some work with Steve on some new compositions for his solo work and his Balsamo, Collins, Riley project.
This was also written with a certain artist in mind. His musical choices baffled me so I set about trying to compose something that fused elements of Josh Groban and a Celtic vibe, whilst trying to be a little bit more aggressive. I'm still not sure what to do with it, so who knows where it will go
Written for a wonderful gentleman who sadly left us in 2022.
What Sam didn't know, was not worth talking about. A vert keen fisherman, a truly wonderful character who served in the Royal Air Force and when he could...he would attend D Day parades, He was a lover of Americana and was the Deputy Sheriff of Dodge City (I kid you not). He worked in radio and presented a show weekly where he would chat to people around the world about their love of Country music. The Video is under videos.