During these strange days, I've been busying about making a lo-fi hip-hop album (of all the things) - several tracks are still being tweaked and tinkered with - but a handful are ready to ship out and share...

If hip hop instrumentals, lo-fi beats or night vibes and suchlike are your sorta scene, I'd be infinitely grateful if you'd lend a listening ear below, to the first tune I've upped since ye ancient days of Myspace

It's a track inspired by the ghostly opening notes and tones of Stan Tracey's Starless and Bible Black (of all the things) from an album inspired by Under Milk Wood. A piece I was introduced to through David Hepworth's Essential classics - on a trip to the Welsh borders.. Tracey's stately chords have been haunting me since first listen - so the only way to shake them off was to create something of a similar riff.

Quinn Martin style Epilogue: through the digital rummage sale that is eBay I managed to bag a repress of Stan Tracey's album for a third of the going market rate due to a misspelling  - 'Stan Tracy' blind-eyeing the searches

Salutes due to Wilko Wilkinson for the use of his artwork of amazingness