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I've recorded an album of railway journey inspired train songs & videos and this is the third track to be released. It celebrates the winter solstice. I hope you enjoy it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BQNCOHezEI "Bring light back to the earth, hail the sun. The sun returns! The light returns! The earth begins to warm once more." Train Track #3 … Continue reading Winter Solstice Rainbow
Our musical year started in January, this time with an exhibition. Goole Museum and Gallery hosted Syd Young’s Relics and Rails, a lifetime retrospective of paintings, photographs and music memorabilia. The launch included a sonic landscape provide by Jeff Parsons and a duet with Syd of one of his own compositions from 1977. Later that … Continue reading 2023 in Music
Players' Night at the William Gemmell The last gig of the year for us Hull Jazz Christmas Special at the William Gemmell Club. All the boys were back home for Christmas, and formed an impromptu Howard brothers trio. Thanks to Dave Ellis, Dave Short and the House Band. Great to see Sophie at the helm … Continue reading Hull Jazz Christmas Special
11.02.2023 The Warehouse IN Holbeck, Leeds The programme said: "Primal. Spellbinding. Passionate. Take a pinch of a romantic song cycle, stir in some studio theatre and a touch of jazz, then filter the whole thing through a hessian sack of deep, dark Central European folklore… and you might be somewhere in the region of ‘Bag … Continue reading Manchester Collective: Bag of Bones