Blue - 2013

I wrote Blue in the summer of 2010. I'd holed up in a flat in Berlin to work on songs for a new album. I knew the sonic world I wanted the album to live in - big orchestral textures with choral parts and horns - but I hadn't executed a recording with chamber instruments before, and didn't know quite where to start. Berlin turned out to be the perfect location for focusing - I didn't know anybody or speak the language, so I didn't have many distractions. All there was to do was write, and occasionally bike through the city for inspiration. During my time there I wrote and arranged the songs that would become 'Blue'.