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This is a mix put together using tracks from my favourite albums of 2007. As such it was quite a tricky thing to do as the selection was not made with a mix in mind. But, as is often the case while working on a mix, I found myself pondering something completely unrelated and slowly this exerted an influence that helped focus things in a previously unthought of way. In this instance it was the idea of author Marcus Sedgwick that the days between Christmas Day & New Year are The Dead Days, quiet days when nothing seems to happen yet it is the time “when spirits roam and magic shifts just beneath the surface of our lives.” Hopefully the mix reflects this.

Happy New Year to you and while you wait its arrival, listen or download to Music For Dead The Days (right click and save)

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What if I’d remembered her wrong?

Originally inspired while walking early in the morning through fog shrouded woods in the Cotswolds; after a while I found myself thinking about a friend of mine I’m very fond of but haven’t seen for sometime. Anyway, approx running order goes something like this:

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