About the artist

Born into a very musical family in Glasgow, Scotland. My uncle was a world class choir conductor who taught the entire family to sing except myself (my voice broke a little early saving me from endless Gaelic singing festivals).
Started buying albums in 1980 at the height of the synthesizer scene. Met my first synth a year later and narrowly turned down buying it and joining a New Romantic/post punk group in favour of university. Toyed around with mini-keyboards, guitars and anything I could borrow in my spare time at university and as a Radio DJ at Radio Airthrey used dead studio time to experiment with overdubbing and tape loops. Started building my own home studio around a midi set-up in 1994 and produced a terrible CD of accumulated ideas since University call "Digital Delay". Having cleared out all the backlog of ideas I then produced a further CD a year later called "Deep" which appeared in close friends and relatives Xmas stockings as a present. I was then posted overseas for 18 months to Madrid and Hamburg which gave me the space to create "Destiny" which to date has been listened to on every continent on the planet by friends and relatives and still sends most of them to sleep at night. After a short break I built a new studio in my basement in St. Albans. The first output of which was a homage to mankind's greatest achievement in 1969 "In the Wake of Apollo... "Having shared my ideas with Chris at High Barn, I then took part in sessions for the Hanna album, contributing a whole section to a song and some additional keyboards on the lovely "Whisper". This lead to my CD "Difficult Listening Hour" which moved away from my more atmospheric keyboards into a more dynamic sound. 5 years later I have a new CD that combines the atmospheres of previous albums with the dynamism and originality of the last one, and is called "moving on then..."