Music and Mayhem
TheOneTrueVlad 
Sit back and drift away. Let the gentle ambient electronic sounds take you away. Simple spacious melodies with lots of room that still keep you interested with their layers and floating peacefulness. A perfect addition to any after party chill down session.
This track is emotional! Lots of floating and poignant, gentle drifting sections full of subtle warmth that build to epic crescendos. The Warmth is never complete and the percussion adds some angst which drives an uneasy undercurrent matched by the vocals and discord in the keys. The combination of the music, vocals and lyrics build a plot and reel you in to a beautiful love story that intimates at a heavy tragedy past or immanent. You’ll have to listen and decide for yourself. Angelic, rich and atmospheric and full of hopes and love between beauty and darkness. This is a song that gets better the more you listen, as you anticipate where it goes both musically and lyrically. Some people will find the discord in the keys and percussion a bit overwhelming, but stick with it because when you think you understand the song, it won’t feel out of place or even unpleasant, no, it will just fuel the roller-coaster of emotions this track takes you on.
Xenostrobe is the name I use for my Dance/Techno music – this is probably going to be the only track I ever do, enjoy…
I came up with the name for this project after it finished. We did manage to play live at The Portman Hotel, Bournemouth.
A long time ago, I started jamming with Mat Dyche, just messing around with guitars.
Mat would write these great little tunes and I found I could just find something simple to go over the top.
I miss our jams but Mat got absorbed by his life and kids and music fell away…
Blakey who played bass for SUBTXT also wrote a track for this lady.
SUBTXT volunteered to act as the band in the video which was filmed in the railway arches in Brixton.
After filming we went for a celebratory drink, when we returned the gates were locked and no-one had a key.
After ages we managed to find out where there was a hidden key and sent the skinniest of us under the gate to retrieve it.
For a while it looked like we were going to be sleeping rough in Brixton, thankfully we made it home (despite the driver being pulled for speeding on the M3 lol).
I dressed up and joined in for the filming of a local hero – Si Genaro.
The song was put together after a rough version was performed on The Voice.
Bournemouth council lent him the land train and a driver making it a hilarious day of fun.
It had been raining for weeks and the morning of the filming the sun came out.
Moments after finishing the heavens opened again for several more days.
Would you believe this was actually filmed in February?!
On 28th October 2015 I appeared on the Livewire Live Show on Hope FM 90.1 – Nathan J Lark had asked me to come along and perform a couple of acoustic versions of his songs currently released as singles and soon to feature on his upcoming EP. So naturally I agreed and we had a great time in the studio with Tim Haywood and guest presenter AJ.
I have chopped up the hour and half plus show into just the bits with me for ease of listening. The two live acoustic tracks we played are provided separately. I would recommend listening to them in order.
All the sections are taken from between the two tracks we played. The first being No Answer and the second being Gods Of Karma.
Provided with permission of:
Nathan J Lark
Tim Heywood and Hope FM 90.1
Hope FM
Performed at The Music Box, Salisbury, I was asked to accompany the excellent Sound Addiction