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These are Snowdune songs in the Easy Listening or Pop category. Some are solo projects and some (where specified) are collaborations. Some are songs I've produced for other people or co-written and produced.

Jazz Groove Live Fantasy

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I love working in totally different genres. This is an experiment to see if I can write and produce a piece of music with a laid back jazz feel. I play all music myself on keyboards, with percussion created in midi and keyboard too. I ended up making it a “live” performance with efforts to have many of the instruments quite lazy and not necessarily a perfect “studio” performance – more like how a decent live gig might go. The whole piece was created around the bass line, which as with a lot of my music came first.

I spent a lot of time and practice trying to make the brass and wind instruments sound authentic and to give a feel of a chilled out band playing live.

Folded Over

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Me and Bri Littlehales started this song 5 years ago. We’ve never re-worked a song as much as this, sometimes giving up on it for as long as a year, then spending sessions working on it before giving up on it again only to have another go several months later. The last version was version 50.

The drums have been completely re-written twice. The bass-line used to create the song was also completely re-written. Structure swapped and changed, lyrics and melodies swapped and changed. Finally, we like it.

Credit to Ian Downes for additional vocals on the choruses really uplifting the track. Produced by Snowdune / Bri Littlehales.

Don’t Diss Christmas Dis Christmas Feat. Mike O’Brien

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Charity Christmas Song

Don’t Diss Christmas is a fun charity Christmas song to support two UK children’s charities for Christmas 2013 with 100% of all profits going to them.

Written and performed by Snowdune with main lyrics written and sung by Mike O’Brien. More vocal contributions from many of my friends and family. Produced by Snowdune.

Almost every penny contributed is profit for charity because no one involved has taken any money. The only money taken out will be from credit card and sale processing fees. BUY the song (just £1 minimum).

Dancing With Angels Feat. Rob Dowling

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I heard a demo of this song by Rob Dowling with just him and a guitar. I really liked the song right from the first listen. I felt it was so sincere and heartfelt and asked Rob if I could produce a new version. I’ve been working on this one on and off for 3 or 4 months with help from Bri Littlehales who also plays guitars.

I’ve tried to keep it subtle and free from cliche, rearranging the song in two places, adding all the percussion, a fretless bass, strings, saxophone, flute, and several other instruments. Bri plays 12 string guitar and a bit of electric guitar lead and has helped a lot in mixing, and with the drums and strings. Rob gave a very sincere vocal performance, which still occasionally chokes me up in places.

Please try to listen a few times – the slow ones need time to grow. Rob wrote this song after a breakup with his partner resulted in his beloved children living with their mother. The lyrics and delivery are wonderful.

Update: Dec 2014 – Sadly Rob, the writer and singer on this track has now passed away. We will never finish the other songs we’d started working on together but I was lucky to have spent some time working with him before his illness. RIP Rob (Dingo). I’ve now converted it to MP3 and enabled downloads for anyone wanting a copy. Click the small download icon top right to download an MP3 copy of this song

Lyrics

In the cold light of day
love’s just a phone call away
If you need someone to talk to
I’m always there for you

And I know you’re safe from harm
safe in your mothers arms
If you need someone to hold you
she’s always there for you

Close your eyes, turn out the light
Close your eyes and I’m with you tonight

For in my dreams you’re by my side
We’re dancing with angels
In heaven’s skies on wings of pride
Dancing with angels
dancing with angels
dancing with angels

I had to go away
I’m sorry I just couldn’t stay
but my love for you grows stronger
with each and every day

And I know you’re safe from harm
safe in your mothers arms
If you need someone to hold you
she’s always there for you

Close your eyes, turn out the light
Close your eyes and I’m with you tonight

For in my dreams you’re by my side
dancing with angels
In heaven’s skies on wings of pride
Dancing with angels
dancing with angels
dancing with angels

Together, dancing with angels
together, dancing with angels
forever, dancing with angels together
dancing with angels
dancing with angels
dancing with angels
dancing with angels

© 2013 Snowdune / Rob Dowling

The Now (rough-demo)

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This is a rough and very short proof of concept demo of an idea for a new song which is needing a beautiful spiritual or pure-sounding voice, preferably female. It’s based on 2 melodies I used in Earth Shine but I’m playing it now on guitars instead of basses and would like to make this more spiritual and stay chilled instead of getting big as Earth Shine does.

The lyrics I have so far are sung to the flute melody, which comes in at 38 seconds –

The Now

Be, where, you are
See, what, you see
Feel, the now
Enjoy, the now

The lyrics below may be spoken later in the song. Possibly by a chilled male voice.

The future does not exist
The past exists no more
Now is all we have
Now is all we will ever have

This is just a very rough demo – knocked up in 10 mins. The finished song will be much better and of course longer. Please contact me if you may have just the right voice for this.