In addition to working on the “Strange Stars” theme/ album I’ve also been working on ideas for a largely autobiographical set, “Janus”. “Adieu” released a while back was the first, today I released the second element “Titus Alone”.

I’ve released a new track, “Point with no reference”. It’s actually an old track. In the early 80s I created a short piece of cosmic/ space synth work called “Depayse”, it was probably on my first cassette release.. Later in the 80s it was reworked for a compilation promo for the Electronical Dreams label “The Dream is just beginning” and re-titled “Point with no reference”. It’s now reworked yet again. By accident when messing around with one of the keyboards I used in the second version I quoted from one of my other pieces of the time and left it in. My first synth was used to take the bass part it had taken about 25 years ago. After all those years the structure remains very simple and close in feeling to the original. The text that accompanies this version is “Somewhere in the far reaches, a place with no name, something sings a song of eternal solitude.”

I’ve started releasing material from “Strange Stars”. So far two tracks have been released, “In Flight” and “Approaching the Strange Star”. I’m currently working on a third track which is a remake of one of the first tracks I produced back in 1982, so in theory that will be the next one released. Assuming that another one off track I’m also working on doesn’t overtake it. One of the beauties of the current ways of publishing and the newer audiences is that you are not locked into the constraints of 40 minutes plus of coherent work. What I’ve yet to sort is the home for these postings. It could be blogger.com as an unattached space, on MySpace or now within Soundclick. Hope to sort that soon.