Trust In The You Of Now

I've been working on the music again. Sadly not prepped enough to get on with the actual *proper* Smallcreep work, but still just fitting in sessions to better acquaint myself with Logic 8.
And today that's resulted in another piece that I'm happy enough to put out for general consumption. It's a seven minute piano improvisation (with just a couple of overdubs of pre-delayed note washes to fill it out) that's just very very peaceful; very typical of my improv work really; recorded in almost total darkness, just me playing against the silence - and probably something that might appeal to anyone who likes folks such as Lyle Mays, Keith Jarrett or Mark Hollis. As with the previous tune it's been given a name derived from the superb Brian Eno / Phil Schmidt tool "Oblique Strategies", which I've had a history of using on many projects - from design to music to writing.

The piece is called "trust in the you of now" and you can download it here...

Enjoy.

Backlash Back On Track

After much thought, Smallcreep has returned onto my "To Do" roster...
With Rob and me listening to more and more diverse stuff, and with a few nudges from friends and fans (yes - the band actually has fans...) we've agreed to go pick things up on our unfinished 3rd album, BACKLASH.
It was a project that went on for about 6 or 7 years, spawning so many ideas it became unmanageable. We threw out about 30 of them and started over. And the same thing happened again.
So we left it and carried on with our lives.

But lately, we've both discussed it and decided that we actually were incredibly proud of the stuff that was happening and coming out of the sessions, and so we aim to revisit the 60 or so remaining ideas (almost finished, semi-finished, rough sketchpads and more...) and try and nail the album we always meant to make.
There's studio setups to sort out and a shedload of files and roughcuts to review, but "THE MIGHTY 'CREEP" (© Kris Barford) are up for it and we're looking forward to doing great things again.
And bickering.
We always bicker.

We'll be putting out updates - and possibly some sneaky peeks of the new stuff here at the new Smallcreep '09 blog...