Somewhere Else

By 2010 I had finished my masters degree in music composition, composed music for a huge variety of instruments and talented performers from all over the world, experimented with genre fusion with the early incarnations of the Quark band, and was moonlighting on a fairly regular basis as a guitarist with the local celtic band Celtis. I felt like I'd moved on from my singer-songwriter roots, but hadn't arrived at a new musical identity. I identified with the child in A.A. Milne's poem who liked to sit on the stairs because he was neither upstairs nor downstairs, but “somewhere else instead”. The five tracks on the album are a mix of where I was musically at the time – somewhere else. It was recorded by my professor Jürgen Bräuninger at the university of KZN studio and features members of the band Celtis, Ant Cawthorn-Blazeby, Keri Povall and Ron Uken, as well as Géza Kayser and Liuben Gadev on violin and cello (Serendipity).