Includes the singles IMPOSSIBLE TREES, 

INFINITE SELF-PORTRAITS and COMPLICATED.

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Epic tactile sounds and songs collecting moments from bright nights and dark days.

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Weaving textures created from spliced and looped fragments of my old demo tapes to build foundations for the new songs that I wrote on a partially broken piano during late nights in Portugal. The tunes were then reconstructed using retro-future sounds to push past easy nostalgia and find the strength to embrace melancholia and own it.

I wanted to tackle the difference between loneliness and solitude where the latter can be a positive way to build up strength simply by having time to think clearly - to believe in better days, to find new ways of living and rediscover the dreams of the broken hearted.

A workshop late summer in Caldas da Rainha.
A beachside bar in Baleal.
The always crowded Bar Popular in  Alvalade early Autumn 2016 –

here's hoping it will soon be crowded again.
Watching the Perseid meteor shower and not seeing much.
Watching the Gulbenkian orchestra play a late night concert in Terreiro do Paco. Finding and adopting two abandoned puppies on the roadside, one so deep in the brambles that all I could see was eyes glittering in the torchlight.
One of 8 people squashed into a small taxi early hours Lisboa, an art collective's New Year's warehouse party at the end of the taxi ride.
A car on a long drive to Coimbra to play a gig, 
Arriving late at the Walthamstow Garden Party to miss the act you came to see.
A candlelit kitchen somewhere in Portugal singing and playing guitar. 
Shaping moving images in a penthouse in Antwerp.
Brewing the world's strongest coffee on an island in  the archipelago Stockholm.
Staring intently at Mark Rothko's pictures in Tate Modern.
Sunsets in Paris.

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Special thanks if you appeared in any of the above scenes.

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Artwork: Eterno Rojo by Gianfranco Spada 2019