Bass reeds for Necro Deathmort

Necro Deathmort - 'Overland' (Profound Lore Records)

Necro Deathmort approached me a while back to arrange 'Vortex', one of their tracks, for deep wind instruments and record it for their new album. It was a fun task, particularly as Contra-Bassoonist, Thomas Stone, arrived equipped with a tube to extend his bell-end to get down to a bottom A! Baritone sax, contra-bassoon and bassoon went down and the finished result is pretty epic. It was an honour to be involved!

You can hear and pre-order the Album HERE.

Dodson & Fogg

I recently did some sax playing on 'Mystery' from the new Dodson & Fogg album. They have a rather marvellous video for it which you can see here....

Manning- 'The Root, The Leaf and The Bone'

Guy Manning's new album is now out on Festival Music and I had the pleasure of playing bassoon on track 3, 'Autumn Song'.



You can find a short Q & A about it here

The album is the latest in an impressive discography from Manning and features an array of guests alongside his regular band.

A Sweet Niche Album Launch 07/12/12

Earlier this month I had the great pleasure of doing some mental squealing harmonics at the end of the fabulous A SWEET NICHE's set.  They launched their new album, EYE MUSIC II, at the Miller in London Bridge and completely rocked it.  The night sold out completely. A Sweet Niche are the way forward! 

Guapo Bassoon

Just recorded some bassoon for the new Guapo album- spectacular band and, from what I've heard of the album so far, it will be immense. Very chuffed to be asked to parp on it!

Circumstance - 'Of Sleeping Birds'

I recently played for Circumstance's new location based sound piece,' of Sleeping Birds'.  Super interesting project.  A sound track was pre recorded and then 'mapped' to the centre of Cambridge.  Sarah Anderson and Duncan Speakman (the brains behind the project) created 40 beautiful hand made speaker boxes which housed a speaker and a GPS enabled android phone. Four groups of ten members of the public then followed a guide on a specified route around cambridge.  The effect was really quite magical.  Sarah had done some very odd stuff to my tenor sax parts and her duvet solo and we got to experience the finished work in all it's glory.