Bio
A little about me
I live in South Wales with my wife and three kids. I write when I can, I feel all the time and I'm desperate for increasing vulnerability.
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My music displays this need for personal growth, a desire to fully know myself and the world around me and approach reality as well as I possibly can - with all my fears and failures.
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I hope to build bridges with my music, from me to you.
Homeward Found
From 2012 to 2015 I wrote constantly whilst traveling and performing in all sorts of places. Two handfuls of these songs made their way into a debut album releas in 2018 under a music collective called "Homeward Found." The project created a collaboration of around 20 musicians, producers and engineers, all giving generously of their time. It was a great chance for me to see my raw writing turn into fully-fledged tracks with the support of brilliant arrangers, composers and producers.
Raw questions
Alongside the Homeward Found years was our travel across Europe, performing in various University events weeks. We wrote songs and stories that would fall alongside evening talks. I found myself mesmerised by people's honest questions and felt songs of openess and yearning draw out of me. My favourite challenge was to write a piece on the topic "Is God a psychological crutch?"
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This created a short album called "Response" which you can hear on soundcloud.
Photo credit: Luke Tattersall 2022.
Used with permission.
Singles
Since then we've had the joy and challenge of raising three young children, with our firstborn arriving 2017. Writing songs on my guitar was a given, and many of the songs in "Sepia" were written in these formative years, but performing, recording and releasing became less of a priority for us.
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However, in 2020, during the initial lockdowns in the UK, I felt that an old song of mine should be resurrected to encourage and empathise with the difficulties we all faced, which was the self-recorded and produced single "Close to Death."
This was followed by "My Little Baby," a Christmas single in 2021, written from Joseph, Jesus' father's perspective.
Sepia
Most recently, after a magical walk in the valleys where I currently live, the last 5 years of songwriting came into focus; the frosty and decaying ground seemed to weave a thread through my experiences in life and speak to my soul.
Life isn't just hard, it's confusing - but in the midst of all that there is an undercurrent of abundance we can barely imagine.
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Sepia is now my current body of work and consists of 12 tracks interspearsed with photography and poetry. Four of these tracks have been recorded in a studio in Cardiff and now make up "Sepia - Live in the Studio EP" as a teaser for the live performances of Sepia across the country.
Photo credit: Luke Tattersall 2022.
Used with permission.