Do you know the feeling of wanting to discover secrets that aren’t being spoken aloud? For a while I thought it was an esoteric way of preserving knowledge. I imagined there were savants to seek out, to turn to. And in search of traces, I became passionate about chasing and searching for the threads of … Read more
Foreword Sometime in early 2022, in the middle of the fourth or fortieth wave of the corona virus, I got a message from my old friend, Stefano Schiavocampo. He told me that he was editing for a magazine in Dublin and he’d like me to contribute. “Me?” I thought, “What would anyone need to hear … Read more
The process of discovering sounds has always been an aspect of music I’ve been connected to, even when I wasn’t aware of its potential and possibilities. During childhood and adolescence, I experimented with instruments, recorded and improvised. It was a somewhat chaotic, intuitive process without pretensions. In my early teens my parents offered me a … Read more
I sit at the piano and a melody flows smoothly from my mind. I think “How great,” and quickly write it down, then continue playing and writing, playing and writing. Feels like I came up with something special this time. I become emotional with excitement and am very pleased. Then a moment passes, and nothingness. … Read more
Two months ago, after releasing my new album, Songs & Stories,Vol 1, I asked Irish composer Craig Cox to listen and offer his thoughts, without any prompting from me. Craig and I have worked together on several projects since I arrived in Ireland in 2012. His response resonated with me, so I will comment on … Read more
I go by the name of John Moods. I would like to share with you a little journey through my current thoughts – a small piece of my ever-shifting consciousness. Through my life’s journey I have come to realise that the source of my anxiety always stems from not knowing something. What I am, who … Read more
“It was like somebody realized you could take the surface of a song, paint a door on it, open it and walk through.” Mary Gaitskill, Veronica I’m going to start with a secret: I haven’t written a single good song since last August. It was the night after the sudden death of one of … Read more