New Album:
Separate Together
Now Available
An uplifting, multicultural musical journey celebrating humanity’s shared experiences of wonder, connection and self-discovery through travel. Framed in the mellow styles of smooth jazz, chill lounge and cool vibes.
My full catalogue of songs
I have over 70 compositions over my three band/projects
Collaboration Release: Co-write with Judie Tzuke and Redrama (Lasse Melberg)
Released: 21 October 2023
‘You’ve Got to Be In It’ is a song that I co-wrote with Jude and Lasse Melberg. You can hear the song on the excellent new album from Judie Tzuke: ‘Jude the Unsinkable’
This photo is Jude, Lasse and myself at the song writing session. Such cool people and a great time.
Updates
From the land of the ice and snow….. to Knebworth to see Led Zeppelin
From the land of the ice and snow….. to Knebworth to see Led Zeppelin The date 11 Aug always sticks in my head: Not a birthday or anything equally trivial, but the first concert I attended. Led Zeppelin at Knebworth Festival in 1979. Still in high school my buddy Grahame,
Every Noise
Talking about Napalm Death and grindcore I always refer back to the website created by a former Spotify Data Alchemist called Glenn McDonald. He mapped out all the genres that are used to classify music on Spotify. You can see it www.everynoise.com Can you believe there were, at last count
Des Moines and Napalm Death?
I recently visited Des Moines, Iowa. It was pleasant wee polite city in my view. Clean and neat, if a little gentrified downtown. They must have got a rude awakening when Napalm Death came to town on tour. This was their tour bus outside the venue Woolys. I gotta try
Latest Release from Zdiar
About Me
I write music…..because music
I am a musician, songwriter/composer, producer/arranger and music fanatic. Everything I do has music involved in it to some to some degree.
I am on a life long mission to indulge, learn , play, write, compose and absorb music of all types from all people, and cultures and backgrounds. Music is the universal language.
I have been inexorably drawn to music since I was a kid despite coming from a totally non musical family and having no early musical education. I didn’t start playing piano till I was 16 and didn’t write my first song till I was in my mid 20’s.
My Top Ten Everything
Actually sometimes it’s 10, sometimes it’s more, sometimes less, but you get the idea. In this latest episode it’s…..
In previous episodes
MY MUSIC
The Space Between
Your life can change in an instant... the space between.
Consent Under Coercion
Is the human race self destructing? We seem to consent under coercion
CONNECT
Every Stranger
It’s about instilling and restoring trust in fellow humans and each and everyone of us of ‘doing our piece’ by holding out our hands and making connections with each other.
What They Say
“Beautifully crafted music showing extremely well the compositional capabilities of this artist”
“Consent Under Coercion is a damn fine album”
The Balance of Risk is an excellent and very diverse album.
Photo Gallery
A visual guide to my music, history, travels and stuff
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