My experiments with clarinet and looping are continuing apace. Recently I have played a couple of sessions at a very cool artist’s café in Huahin (The Ronin Capsule Café) along with my fellow sonic explorer Gary Hall.

you can see a short clip of that here

Gary and I are also very likely to be playing a session in Bangkok at Studio Lam as part of Tommy Hanson’s Healing Sunday in either October or November (details will be added as soon as this is confirmed). I’m very excited about that. Gary plays beautiful piano improvisations and I try to add my own flourishes to that. If you are in or around Bangkok, be sure to try and catch us.

The sort of music I’m playing could well be placed, I think, in a ‘sound healing’ category- not that I make any great claims on its efficacy, that is, It is just that I find it a deeply peaceful thing to do – to inhabit the moments of the vibration and emotion of the sound that I seem to be making. It is coming from the heart and I think it goes back to the heart in its own loop.

Here’s a live, unrehearsed video I recorded, that I think illustrates this. I’d love to know what people think about this and if they can feel the same.

Improvisational sound healing

I am very happy to have been asked to contribute design and illustration work to some titles at Animal Dreaming Publishing.

Two book covers and box design for the World Animal Dreaming Oracle with excellent illustration by Karen Branchflower. Beautiful cover illustration for Earth Mother Dreaming by Amanda Clark.

It is a real joy to work with such good illustration as this.

I am also on the case with a number of book cover illustrations for Animal Dreaming to be revealed in due course.

Quite a few years ago I was involved in the design of Scott’s Bohemian Tarot cards – behind the scenes, and so it is nice to be working with him again.

You can find these titles available here.

It’s quite a while since I added any content here, but I have not been idle. On the contrary, I have been working behind the scenes on two new card decks for the authors Sonja Grace and Dawn Brown. The card illustrations are not mine in both cases – but I am bringing my expertise in card design to the projects and also have now taken on the job of the booklet layouts which surprisingly I find quite enjoyable.

You can find both sets available for pre-order here on the Inner Traditions website

I have also recently been involved in the conceptual illustration work for the Making Magick oracle cards for Rockpool International which you can find here.

In addition to these card projects, I have also been working on various cover design projects for various publishers which I will add into the gallery in due course.