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Let me introduce you to my most recent music. I'm recording demos for a new album, although the project keeps getting delayed. If you click the green titles to the right you can freely download and listen to these works in progress. Feedback is welcome.
If you haven't already heard it, Call it Love is a great place to start.
My day starts at 5am, often to the accompaniment of National Radio. The marine weather forecast read by Lloyd Scott at ten past five has been background to the making of more cups of green tea than I care to consider. I wrote this song in the winter of 2007, based on some interesting guitar chords; E-shapes with fingering variations. I loved its soaring melody, but my initial attempts to record it were never satisfactory. Coming back to Offshore Weather a year later, I put down what was intended to be a scat piano track to help me record the vocals before I started messing with the guitars. But the piano insisted on staying, and ultimately I didn't use acoustic guitars at all. Recording this has been an exciting little adventure for me - it's developed in directions I certainly didn't expect.
The QUICK LISTEN button above will immediately play half a minute of the song. It's not hi-fi, but it'll give you an idea of what Offshore Weather sounds like, soaring melody and all (33 seconds, 385kb).
You're welcome to download the complete song. This is a higher quality encoding and weighs in at 9.7MB.
Lyrics
From the coast we see every change in the sky. Seas rise and fall and the clouds motor by; we watch their long shadows, but never ask why offshore weather doesn't reach the inland country of the heart ... read the full lyrics
Progress
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Album summary
This retrospective brings together some of the music I've created across the past three decades. It includes songs from my two most recent albums, Inappropriate Touching and Lean On The Angels, several tracks created since then, plus some older material.
Click on the tracks to the left to for details, lyrics, and individual downloads.
Hear what the whole of Three Deck Wreck sounds like by listening to this 3.4MB sampler. Every track's included in this two minute preview of the entire album.
You can freely download Three Deck Wreck in MP3 format. This is a 75MB download in a single zip file that also contains cover art and liner notes.
If you prefer, I can ship Three Deck Wreck to any destination on the planet for eight euros. Click here to find out what that is in your money. For this price you get a CD in a slimline jewel case with a colour sleeve and bio details.
Highlights to listen for:
- Most popular download: Tiny Heroes
- Most popular songs live: Low Ebb and Give Us a Stone
- Oldest composition: I Love You written in 1976
- Oldest recording: Brokenhearted from 1980
- Newest recording: Mister Ryan from 2007
- Instrumentals: Four Notes from Felix and Spaceship Spirit
- Kiwiana: Lost Forests of Childhood and Howling at the Sun
Leigh Harrison is currently repaying karma from a past life by working as an IT Generalist in this one.