NOW: May 2010 Recording a spanish language album called Almas Buenas in Buenos Aires.

RECENT :Imminent release of preacherman house single (When You Go You Take The) Garden With You from forthcoming Drongomala album titled Some Khunt Nicked All My Stuff

FUTURE:

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THEN : From first tape recorders, keyboard and guitar I went on to lead Baby Bartok and played hundreds of gigs all over the UK. We did Publishing deals then blew up because of a difference of opinion on 'Public Enemy'. During the 90's I was immersed in the Drum and bass scene in Edinburgh.

I then helped set up the label Wonderlust in the UK and put out 3 tracks on a compilation called Radio Wonderlust. I was called simply Drongo then. After I formed my own label Flying Mountain and went further afield to South India.

In 2003/4 I recorded and composed with top classical South Indian musicians in Kerala, India living there for two years. Two records came out of this - Scale and 100 Fields along well as two books (Deriving Tonal Harmony from North Indian Ragas and some diaries). The record features some of the best up and coming talent in South Indian carnatic/classical scene.

In Oct 2005 I worked with some rappers on the Elemental album from Oakland, California just after New Orleans had flooded. Azeem (now getting mad hype in Cali in 09) shines through as an emerging auteur on this record.

Crash landing back in Manchester I got together an electro punk band The Good Hurt. Short, glorious, bloody and full of electrcity - you can't get this in a power gym. Of an afternoon and night in Manchester I also produced a number of exciting projects with artists such as Louis Oak Anderson who I produced and performed with on the record "Up North in the Coalshed". TheWhatSupreme,Sensei C and many others.

At the end of 2007 I recorded Lucky Man Alive in Cario. 1 day in Cairo - meet a percussionsit and violin player on the hop and do 7 tracks.

As the White Crane Flies an electro-jazzflute record with Boofa and Iain Dixon completed in May 09

May 2009 - finished a soundtrack record called '1200 Miles As The White Crane Flys'. It features Ian Dixon the jazz and primitive flute genius of Manchester. 4 years later and my online collaboration with a friend Boofa in NZ sees the light of day.

Aug 2009. Release of the second 'lost' EP from the The Good Hurt of Manchester originally recorded in 2007 but mothballed after the band imploded.'. Check it out.