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Shorts No.1: Far Outside Broadcast.

A little condensed Ambient Soul.

I’ll try and keep this short.

Call it the modern attention span, call it busy lives, call it what you like, but maybe sometimes you good people don’t have 4 minutes odd to listen to a new piece of music.

Don’t worry, I don’t take it personally if you skip over. But, it does present a challenge for us modern musicians and composers - how can we show off our work in short and long form?

This came up when I was speaking to my good friend and mentor Ashley Bates the other week - we decided we both like a nice ‘build’ into a piece and for it to develop over a period of time, but then we’re both of a certain vintage so maybe it’s us?

Anyway, I had a bit of a muse and a ta-da moment: start a little series of ‘Shorts’ - 90-second condensed pieces, which could easily be TV intros or longer advertisement pieces, but stood on their own as proper tracks of music that I could share with you guys here and on those dang Instagram Reels, where the top end is that 1 min 30.

So, here’s the first one. Wonky out of tune piano, wheezy Thom Yorke style synths and some Mezzanine style strings veering into a blaxploitation film ending. Complete with a slightly late-for-Halloween creepy video. Brrrrr. Scary ladies.

I’ll be doing some of these - perhaps 30 seconds and 60 seconds too - and sprinkling them liberally around the longer-form pieces as we go along, with the prospect of possibly releasing them as a collection if it makes sense.

What do you think? Long or short? What would you prefer to hear? Let us know!

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