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"If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it." - Willy the Shake
Only unreleased demos are provided as full length audio, and only as streaming media. Pieces that are commercially available are provided here only as short samples (approx. 1 min.) so you can confirm you are selecting the right score for the piece you want.
| Title | Genre | Listen | Download score | Notes |
| Swinging Schrödinger's Hepcat | bop-fusion | [play] | [download score (pdf)] | Track 1 on the Random Excess CD. Bop-fusion in 5/4 using the whole-half scale |
| Asphyxiation Waltz | jazz | [play] | [download score (pdf)] | Track 2 on the Random Excess CD. [download notes (pdf)] |
| Home in the Hills | jazz-reggae | [play] | [download score (pdf)] | Track 3 on the Random Excess CD. A skanking celebration of the rural idyll |
| On Black Ice | fusion | [play] | [download score (pdf)] | Track 4 on the Random Excess CD. A slippery winter song in 7/4 using the altered scale |
| No More Gun War | jazz-dub | [play] | [download score (pdf)] [download lyrics (pdf)] |
Track 5 on the Random Excess CD. A dub-poem protesting the rise of gun crime in Britain, written shortly after two young boys were shot in South London, one of them in his own bed! Score shows a more developed version of the theme. |
| Missing You | jazz | [play] | [download leadsheet (pdf)] | Track 6 on the Random Excess CD. [download notes (pdf)] |
| Earth Calling | jazz | [play] | [download score (pdf)] | Track 7 on the Random Excess CD. Earth Calling was written as a secular requiem in memory of Nehama's late father. |
| Random Excess | jazz | [play] | [download score (pdf)] | Track 8 on the Random Excess CD. A study in dissonance for solo guitar |
| After Summer Rain | jazz | [play] | [download score (pdf)] | Track 9 on the Random Excess CD. A melodic ballad that contemplates the sparkling sunlight bouncing off pavement flagstones and the leaves of trees when the sun re-emerges after a sudden summer downpour. |
| Money Water Blues | jazz-blues | [play] | [download leadsheet (pdf)] | Track 10 on the Random Excess CD. A blues poem for the '08-'09 recession |
| Ice Cold Dubweiser | jazz-dub | [play] | [download score (pdf)] | Track 11 on the Random Excess CD. Uses the whole-tone scale and chromatisism for edginess and tension |
| Wha'zat? | jazz-funk | [play] | [download score (pdf)] | Track 12 on the Random Excess CD. A funky soul-jazz blues to get yo' groove on in a New York cop show stylee |
| Thunder and Sun | jazz-reggae | [play] | [download score (pdf)] | Track 13 on the Random Excess CD. Nyabinghi jazz fusion |
| Are We There Yet? | jazz | [play] | [download score (pdf)] | Track 14 on the Random Excess CD. This is a through-composed narration of the ups and downs of a journey in the family car |
| Groovy Skavoovie | ska | [play] | [download score (pdf)] | Track 15 on the Random Excess CD. Old time ska. |
| The Forked Tongue of Disillusionment | avant-jazz | [play] | [download score (pdf)] | Track 16 on the Random Excess CD. 1.5 minutes of atonal and abstract 'jazz' |
| Slow Bus to the Smoke | jazz blues | [play band] [play qrt] |
[download score (pdf)] [download score (pdf)] |
A 6/4 jazz blues written on the intercity bus to London, two versions of this tune were written, one a straight forward jazz blues and the other a fully developed composition for string quartet. |
| The Mystic Orchard | classical | [play] | [download score (pdf)] | [download notes (pdf)] |
| Poem X.2 | classical | [play] | [download score (pdf)] | A short duet for clarinet and cello. |
| 'Asta Qeddassa | reggae | [play] | Inspired by Abbysinians' reggae classic, Satta Massagana, but with a new melody, chord sequence and bassline :-) |