The chances are that I will never appear on Desert Island Discs. But just in case, and like many people, I have spent odd moments over the past ten years thinking about the eight records I’d choose if I was. Continue reading
Music
Themes and cadences of writing
I remember once reading an article arguing that every song-writer made recurrent use of a particular series of chord progressions, individual to the writer. They might not be unique – there is, after all, a finite number of chord progressions – but they were distinctive enough to define each song-writer’s work. [read more]