That was the ethos behind the title anyway and that’s what the finished product is its Real Music, the way it used to be made. Local artists such as David Best and Jeremy. Combining interesting lyrics, melancholy themes, acoustic guitars, vocals and synths. Sit in front of a stereo mic, press record and just play the songs, how hard can it be? Harder than I thought but in the end I got something half decent together and have managed to finish it, warts and all. Originally from Milton Keynes, now based in Highgate, London. So anyway all of this led me back to the beginning, and an attempt to record some real music. My conclusion is for various reasons, there simply isn’t enough real music being listened to nowadays, things really need to change. However, these guys often breakthrough in spite of the industry and not because of it. Some great young singers are breaking through and building audiences, Tamino, Matt Corby and Allen Stone. I’ve watched the two biggest influences on my own music David Best and Jeremy Peter Allen never get a chance or an opportunity in an irredeemably corrupt Music Industry. Listening to Bob Dylan and Ryan Adam’s, hearing records made a few years ago sat in front of a mic inspired me to move away from the direction I was going in and towards just making simple records again like I used to when I was first starting out. Recordings easily become the opposite of what they set out to achieve, they stop communicating who we are, they become synthetic and lack character. All the details are in place but the broad strokes all end up out of place. Trying to create a perfect record, a fruitless quest which always seems to end up at largely sterile music. So many projects over the years have missed the mark in one way or another that I recently just became sick of endlessly comping in vocals, creating copy and paste music void of life. There is context to the name of this record that I’d like to briefly cover. In October I moved into a new place and began recording what has become 'Real Music'.
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