News
July 11 2025
I’m excited to finally release my new album Clouding!
https://mixamylo.bandcamp.com/album/clouding
The album is made up of seven piano-based tracks in a neoclassical and filmic style..
I hesitate to write the overused word ‘journey’ to describe it, but that’s what it is.. Based on an emotional connection with someone that rose and fell, each piece is really personal to me – and I hope the music will resonate with you too..
It’s been a while in the making, almost three years, from the first improvised notes (that ended up as the track Cinco Dias) recorded on a piano in Italy on my phone, to the adding this spring of beautiful strings by the fantastic musicians Helen Riley and Harriet Bradshaw (violin/viola and cello), and finally the producing, mixing, mastering, and also double bass, electric bass and guitar on a track or two, by my multi-talented bro Alan Lowles.. Huge thanks to them, and to Nikki Gibbs for the great album shot, and my other very talented bro Rowan May for the cool design..
If you’re up for listening, sharing, and possibly buying it, here it is on Bandcamp, and thank you for supporting an independent artist:
https://mixamylo.bandcamp.com/album/clouding
It’s also on Spotify – I’d love it if you could ‘follow’ me on there, or wherever you listen to your music, thanks!
https://open.spotify.com/album/5WnP439boPXPZ3f2vueDQ6
And let me know what you think of the music, would love your feedback.
Mix x
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June 29, 2025
ARTMIXTURE COLLECTIVE, SOFT PROMINENCE, CLOUDING
I’m starting up a regular ‘blog’ email again after a while off. If you’d like to receive it every week or so, great, send me a message (in the Contact form).
After nearly a month away in France and Italy, I’m steaming into lots of creative projects, and collaborations.. I really feel like collaborations are the way forward; it’s a solitary thing sometimes, being an artist, and of course it often has to be, otherwise nothing would get done.. But I love the idea of a tribe, connecting people in ‘the arts’, working on stuff together, supporting each other, and using our combined energy, with a little bit of social meeja, to spread the word..
So I made a tribe.. It’s called Artmixture Collective, and if you’d like to follow us, pop yourself here:
https://www.instagram.com/artmixturecollective/
and/or here:
https://www.facebook.com/artmixturecollective/
and here!:
https://www.youtube.com/@artmixturecollective
We’d love your support, thanks! At the moment we’re 25 visual artists. musicians, poets, photographers, producers, composers – and one puppeteer! – and I’ll be adding new members soon.. And let me know if it’s something you’d like to be part of..
The first collaboration was between artist Emma Plunkett and myself, combining her beautiful video art with my original soundtrack to create a piece, Soft Prominence. Watch it and read about it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLx-yzxbf5w&list=RDlLx-yzxbf5w&start_radio=1
And the second, out very soon, is my instrumental album Clouding.. Massive thanks to fellow Artmixturians Alan Lowles (mixing/mastering/double bass/electric bass/guitar), Helen ‘Bels’ Riley (violin/viola), and Nikki Gibbs (album cover photo). The album also features cellist Harriet Bradshaw.
If you like piano-based neoclassical/filmic music, you might like this! Here’s a taster:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaBng1BF364
Thanks for reading, and I’ll be back with more arty news soon.
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Nov 11, 2023
SPANISH PIANO MIXTURE is now out in the world!
This book of original solo piano music is suitable for players of all ages, and of an intermediate to advanced level. The 21 pieces were inspired by travels around northern Spain, in particular Barcelona, Bilbao, Cadaqués and the national park of Ordesa in the Pyrenees. Many of the compositions feature a flavour of Spanish music, and are a mixture of lively rhythms, dreamy ballads and dramatic sounds. There are influences of jazz and classical music throughout, and a wide range of keys, tempos and time signatures.
Click below to have a look or purchase your copy!
Feb 8, 2022
PIANO MIXTURE is now published!
A collection of 21 original piano pieces for the intermediate player. With handwritten music and cool artwork, it is a fun, inspiring, varied book that will help develop musical skills and expression. The pieces are a mixture of styles, from wistful ballads to jazzier compositions using swing style rhythms, and are in a wide range of keys, tempos and time signatures. Suitable for all ages.
Click below to have a look or purchase your copy!