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Notes

From the room.

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Cover Lover

I have always loved making covers There’s something about experiencing the familiar in a wildly or weirdly new light, building a new world and story for the music, or song, with instruments and voice. It can give completely different meaning to a story – like Greta’s cover of “…baby one more time” reworked as murder […]

October 2026

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I care even more….

It was lovely to read this, but it also got me thinking. You know, when someone trusts you with their music, and their art, it’s a great honour. It’s also a massive responsibility. An artist has every right to do whatever they want with their music – their only responsibility is to make it, not […]

July 2026

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Isobelle Austin “Sun on my Skin”

Sometimes the timing of things feels significant. Today, 17.07.26, Isobelle releases her first piece. It holds personal weight, as it coincided with one of the most difficult periods of my life, when over the course of fifteen months I was my mum’s primary carer through terminal cancer. I met Isobelle at the beginning of this […]

July 2026

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Greta Svabo Bech – Beautiful Obscenery album

Release 17 April 2026 Written, performed & recorded by Greta, with Production, mix & master by Fred. One mic recordings to tape – introspective outer space, from a French country garden.

June 2026

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ASM (A State of Mind) 9-fiddy-Number. ft. Fredo

This one was a minute ago (2010!) “The 9-Fiddy Number” – a beat I was producing, over a couple of years, with the great musicians I had around me at the time. The beat had another soulful female vocal version, but ASM were keen for it to appear on their “Platypus Funk” album, which featured […]

June 2026