Oh My God - Sean Wright's 33rd studio album in 33 months

Album #33 in 33 months is called OH MY GOD. It's a haunting collection of songs. You can listen to it and download it for free at Last FM.

SEAN WRIGHT REACHES 500,000 MUSIC PLAYS OF HIS SONGS

Time for a celebration. For me personally. Just want to thank everyone who's listened and downloaded my music. I began writing and releasing an album of new songs every month in April 2007, and offering them all as free downloads.

In that time, on the web, I've have found a growing audience on MySpace, Jamendo, Last FM, garageband, ilike, Facebook and elsewhere. I have in excess of 500,000 plays on my music pages, and over 200,000 FREE downloads of my songs.

To me, that's a lot of listening and downloading! It's been remarkable! Thank you for your support. I aim to keep offering FREE legable downloads of all of my music.

Sean Wright

PS - If you're on twitter or facebook, stop by to catch up with my latest tunes.

Sean T Wright's music and ports of call elsewhere on the internet:
http://www.seantwright.com
http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/Sean_Wright
http://www.last.fm/label/Sean+Wright
http://twitter.com/Sean_T_Wright
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sean-T-Wright/161667027335
http://www.ilike.com/artist/Sean+Wright

Come A Little... Closer. New song by Sean Wright

Back to the beautiful basics of acoustic guitar and cello dominating the song. It's called COME A LITTLE... CLOSER. Listen and download for FREE.

Sean Wright - LIVE FROM MY LOUNGE - 32nd album in 32 months

Very excited about my new album - LIVE FROM MY LOUNGE. It's my 32nd album in as many months. It contains 12 acoustic songs, which were recorded as one take recordings. I also filmed each song, and plan to release the videos on youtube soon to co-incide with the album. Listening and downloading will, of course, be free.

Sean Wright recording new songs with Ylavain

I'm collaborating with French indie songwriter Yvalain, creating a new exciting album. I'm still at the rough ideas stages, but more news when full tracks surface. Meanwhile, check out Yvalain's music.

Sean Wright and Josh Woodward's collab song FROM YOUR LIPS Number Two on Jamendo Album Chart

My latest song FROM YOUR LIPS (written with Josh Woodward) was released last week. It has gone in at Number 2 in the Jamendo short album chart and number 8 in the overall Jamendo album chart. I feel proud. First, because folk have been bothered to listen and download the song. Jamendo has a lot of songs (over 200,000)for free download as a creative commons site. Secondly because Josh's music is so awesome that it should be heard as widely as possible. Finally, when I wrote the lyric and melody, I wrote from the heart; it's good to see folk "getting" that emotion expressed in the vocal performance.

From Your Lips by Sean Wright & Josh Woodward

Hey, a new song to download for FREE! I wrote the words and recorded the vocals 1st November 2009 for FROM YOUR LIPS. The music is from the instrumental version of the track Border Blaster from the album BREADCRUMBS. Released early Oct 2009. It's a wonderfully rich and dynamic album that you should check out if you haven't already." http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/54034

Finally, "From Your Lips" wouldn't have happened, if Josh hadn't been so generous in offering up instrumental versions of his tracks. A big thank you to him for making it so. When Josh first heard the song, he said," Wow, very cool. I love how you twisted the verse structure into something completely different by waiting for a couple chords to start. It's surreal, but it works."

Sean Wright's 31st Album in 31 Months

Album #31 in 31 months is called EMPIRE OF ASH. It was mainly inspired by a recent visit to Italy. You can listen to an download for free at Last FM.

SEAN WRIGHT ALBUM 30 IN 30 MONTHS

My 30th album release in 30 months is called DRUM AND BASS. It was great fun to record, taking me into new songwriting structures, software, and ideas. Listen to it for free, and download for free at Last FM.

GHOSTS FROM THE FUTURE by Sean Wright

My new album (album 29 in 29 months) is called GHOSTS FROM THE FUTURE. The title song was inspired by my friend, the producer, songwriter, and visionary Mark Ty-Wharton (aka Mark Tinley). The album features 12 new tracks, with lyrical collaborations from Reine Amodeo, Julie Tawse, Geneva Keith, and Flav Collins. The album is free to download and listen to at Last FM.

Sean Wright's Summer of Collaborations

I'm busy writing songs with other musicians, poets, and songwriters. I'm recording a new electonica album with Alaska's djx, putting together new songs with New York poet Reine Amodeo, and writing with a whole bunch of folk from all over the globe. Check out my summer collaborations here.

I'm also working on a new album called Drum N Bass - a kind of mad challenge from my friend, producer Mark Tinley.

PARKOUR - new album, number 28 by Sean Wright

My 28th studio album in the long-running album-a-month project is called PARKOUR. It contains 12 new original tracks, inspired around the Parkour motif of extreme sport, dedication, and addiction. All the songs were written, recorded, and produced by me, excet the track "Sound Drowning Me (Fire)" whaich was co-written with New York poet, Reine Amodeo. Listen to and download for free.

ALBUM 28 BY SEAN WRIGHT IS CALLED PARKOUR

Sean Wright's 28th album release in 28 months is called PARKOUR. The theme running through the album could be compared with many of the qualities Parkour gymnastics exhibit: addiction to their art, the sensation of breaking physical boundaries, and heightened states of awareness caused by extreme sports.

Wright compares his album-a-month project to Parkour. "I can see the links. Tenuous perhaps, but I feel them. Parkour is the physical art of movement, an activity with the aim of moving from one point to another as smoothly, efficiently and quickly as possible. My album-a-month project is a kind of musical parkour, using sound instead of physical activity."

SEAN WRIGHT TRACK OF THE DAY

Over at Garageband, my song "Counting On You" from THE CALLING album is Track of the Day on 14th July 2009, which means it gets promoted all day on the site.

SEAN WRIGHT RELEASES ALBUM 27 - BEAUTIFUL BLUE

My 27th album in 27th months is called BEAUTIFUL BLUE. It features 12 new tracks. It’s a guitar-driven rock album that dips its toes into Neil Young, David Bowie, and Iggy Pop waters. It contains 12 new tracks witten, recorded, and produced by Wright. It also features the co-written song “What Was” with New York poet Reine Amodeo. Free mp3 download of the album available at Last FM.

Sean Wright Top 20 On Jamendo This Week

The Josh Woodward song I recorded earlier this month has gone straight in to the Jamendo top 20 for this week, at no.11. Jamendo is the world's largest provider of free, legal downloads from indie artists, with over 20,000 albums available to listen to and download. Along with Josh's fine music, there are many more cool artists to discover, such as Sean Fournier, Brad Sucks, and Allison Crowe, to name just a few. Check out Jamendo

PS - note added 28th June 2009... "I'm Letting Go" has achieved a 2nd consecutive week in the top 20 at number 13 this week. Yea!

Sean Wright Records Josh Woodward's Song I'm Letting Go

I've recorded indie singer-songwriter Josh Woodward's classy song "I'm Letting Go." I loved this song the first time I heard it on Josh's THE SIMPLE LIFE album. My version is a little slower, with whispered, dark tones that open out vocally as the song progresses. I really enjoyed recording it.

Of course, I didn't do this in isolation. I spoke to Josh about recording it, and shared my version with him, so that he was the first to hear it. Josh said, "I love your take on it - faithful to the original concept but with a different spin."

PS - If you haven't already, you really should check out Josh's music; given as free downloads, every song is beautifully crafted.

BEAUTIFUL BLUE by Sean Wright

My new album - the 27th release in 27 months - is called BEAUTIFUL BLUE. It will be released 30th June 2009. It features a co-write song called WHAT WAS, with New York poet, Reine Amodeo.

Album 26 in 26 months, THE CALLING has been officially released today, although it went up on Jamendo 12 days ago, and was received very well indeed. Listen and download for free.

SEAN WRIGHT'S NEW ALBUM HITS TOP TEN ON JAMENDO

My new album THE CALLING has gone to number eight in this week's album chart at Jamendo. Jamendo is a community of free, legal and unlimited music published under Creative Commons licenses. They have released 20,000 albums under the Creative Commons licenses, making them the world's biggest, legal publisher of new, indie music.

Their motto is: share your music, download your favorite artists!

Read more here

ALBUM #25 - FREEDOM'S ALREADY INSIDE YOUR MIND

Album #25 in the Album-A-Month Project is called FREEDOM'S ALREADY INSIDE YOUR MIND. It's a rock/folk/blues album - influenced by Dylan, Lennon, and Bowie. You can, as always, listen to it, and download it as MP3s at Last FM. It's release is a landmark in numbers 25 albums X 12 songs per album = 300 new songs! Enjoy!

WAR CAN WAIT new album by Sean Wright

At the time that I wrote the 12 songs that became the album WAR NO MORE (album #12, March 2008), I produced my own mixes of those songs before handing them over to producer Mark Tinley. What struck me was the different interpretations of the same songs. Mark did some re-arranging, added synths and different drums on many tracks. In short, he added his genius personality to the album. An album which I love, btw.

I thought it would be right to offer up my own original, alternative mixes of the same songs, mainly because I am a bit of a completest. I think that became obvious with my Album-A-Month mentality.

I re-named the album to avoid confusion with album #12. This version is called WAR CAN WAIT, which is a title I was toying with at the time.

Listen and download for free to WAR CAN WAIT at Last FM.

Sean Wright Protest Songs

PROTEST SONGS is an album of previously released tracks, drawing together the common theme of protest. Whether it’s anti-war, human rights, or suppressed minorities, I've been making my voice and views heard. Listen and download for free at Last FM.

Sean Wright's Album Number 25 Named

My 25th album in 25 months will be released at the end of April. It's called FREEDOM'S ALREADY INSIDE YOUR MIND.

Introducing the 10th Dimension

I've been watching Rob Bryanton's video blog posts for a while now, and would like to recommended them. If you like your science and consciousness mix laced with quantum mechanics, infinite timelines, string theory, big bangs and so on, then enjoy Bob's fascinating work. Here's flavour of Rob's 10th dimension work.

Recommending The Wind Whistles

Check out The Wind Whistles - a duo from Canada that I've been listening to and admiring for a while now. You can download their album for free at Last FM and Jamendo.

When The Impossible Seems Okay

CONTINUED AS THE GUEST BLOGGER AT aspergineering.com

I was incapable of breathing now. One moment conscious, the next a vast black void. I found myself floating in the vacuum of space, a deep, dark space with just two pinpoints of light. I kept thinking: I'm dead! I'm really dead!

It was then that the strangest thing happened. I was floating above the pool, looking down at the cover, knowing that my body was beneath it in the water. I felt remarkably okay with the fact. I felt detached, calm, and wondered what would happen next.

I looked to my right and saw my fellow lifeguard. He was calling me, looking worried, eyes darting this way and that. He knew something was wrong, that I was missing, but he hadn't figured out that I was literally less than ten feet away from him. He paced away from my body, shaking his head.

A voice called from behind me. I turned, to see my grandfather, who had died many years earlier. He was standing beside a vast, vast ocean, mists swirling and eddying above the gently lapping surface. Beyond the mist, out there beyond the ocean, an all-encompassing force/energy called not in words but in massive waves of unconditional love and kindness.

"Am I dead?" I asked my grandfather.

"Not quite," he said. He beckoned me.

I walked over to him and watched in amazement as he showed me a "living" letter, a kind of birthday card with a three-dimensional view of the cottage he now lived in. Inside the card/letter he showed me his garden. It was beautiful, a miniature three-dimensional reality of shimmering, glittering light and shade.

"You live beyond the ocean, don't you?" I said, nodding toward the calling force.

"Yes. But if you come with me now, you cannot return."

"But I feel it calling me. It's wonderful, I wish I could just float away, so peaceful and calm and-"

I was standing in the eye of a hurricane, sliding down a mountain in the pouring rain, jumping through the window of a crashing plane, rising higher and higher into the sky, into space, into the vastness of... I had no idea what. All in the space of milliseconds. Time had no meaning. Space was everything. I knew instinctively that I'd ceased to exist in time, but was now in ONE dimension of space. I saw time from three points of view - past, present and future. I heard millions of tunes from the past, present, and future. In the darkness of this limitless space I heard so many beautiful songs, seeing only two pinpoints of light, far away.

The songs didn't enter my head, but were part of me, part of who I was/am/will be. But they were also part of the space, too. Part of everything, of everyone. The songs encompassed all genres and styles, as if I were the channel and receiver of billions of soundwave broadcasts, all simultaneously starting and finishing at once.

So much information! So much sound! A gigantic wall of sound! Not static, but melody and soulful music, music from passionate hearts and mind, music that could uplift and create tidalwaves of emotion.

Tears of joy, tears of sadness, of loss, of birth, of life, of death. So many possibilities. I heard choirs of angels, big bands, acoustic bands, solo singers wailing in obscurity, mega-rock bands bound for world wide fame, small pub bands rocking, pumping, pulsating techno beats, soulful singers of blues, jazz-scat-reggaeltro-synths-pop- - so many sounds in such a small time, like a sigh of deep contentment.

The twin lights expanded in the dark space of sound. I had no choice. I was drawn to the lights. They engulfed me. I found myself standing beside the pool. I looked behind me at the ocean. My granddad said one word, then vanished into the mists of the ocean.

I saw the lifeguard pulling the cover off the pool, diving into haul me out. Before I blacked out, my grandfather's single word echoed in my head. It has echoed ever since. Everyday I hear his one word and I rejoice.

"Sing."

April Fool Anyone?

April Fool's Day is upon us, whence jokers the world over get everything they've been dying to do without feeling guilty! I wonder what pranks the children will play at my expense today?

My friend, fellow musician, fellow original thinker, and producer of album #12 WAR NO MORE in my Album-A-Month Project Mark Ty-Wharton (aka Mark Tinley) has invited me to guest blog at his wonderful http://aspergineering.com/blog/ ... I highly recommend his writings.

SEAN WRIGHT ACHIEVES TWO YEAR ALBUM-A-MONTH AIM

Sean Wright has successfully completed his two year challenge of writing, recording, and releasing a new, original album every month. He began his musical marathon in April 2007, and has released 24 albums.

Wright says: "Will I attempt 36 albums in 36 months? I have no choice."


Album-a-Month Project Brief History

Sean Wright's album-a-month project began in April 2007 and quickly garnered a huge fan-base and public support from major musicbiz producers, sound engineers, and musicians. Top online music news source, No Rock And Roll Fun ran an article, claiming that Wright was "possibly the hardest-working man in showbiz." What made Wright's project even more appealing was his artistic decision to offer his whole catalogue of songs as free MP3 downloads.

Producer, Alexander Nevermind's support of Wright's album-a-month project has been unflinching and vocal, praising Wright's music publicly on myspace. Nevermind works behind the scenes as one member of a collective of musicians, composers, and producers known as moodswings.com in the US, a collective whose influence on the world of popular music is far-reaching and immense. Nevermind is also known as dance music producer and songwriter, LaTour, as well as other pen names. Nevermind said he "loved Wright's music and work ethic."

New York-based, Roman Klun said Sean Wright’s project, “all sounds and feels good.” Klun is the award-winning record producer, music engineer and singer/songwriter who worked on Sarah McLachlan's Grammy nominated and Juno Award winning record "Afterglow."

"Love your stuff Baby.
Blaze-on!" Dana Gaynor, top US guitar player (John Lee Hooker, Bobby Rondinelli, and many more)

Jimmy Zavala, legendary harmonica player for The Eurythmics, Etta James, Tom Petty, Rod Stewart, Bon Jovi, Yes, Barry White, Dr. Dre, and many more has said that Wright's music "sounds great."

"I'm completely blown away by your Album-A-Month project! That's amazing!!! I'm listening to some songs on the music player now... REALLY impressive! I look foward to spending more time listening and following your progress," Swapmeet Louie, guitarist and keyboard player for Bo Bice.

"Wow! Guess you can write!!! I am not that fast- my lyrics take me weeks but love your classic rock feel," Alana Grace, singer-songwriter with Colombia Records

"I love the ballad (of Leon Payne). I tell you what! Daddy would have loved your originality. " Myrtie, Leon Payne's daughter. Leon Payne's songs have been covered by Elvis, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, U2, and many more.

Dan Nash of Just Great Management has said: "KUDOS! I love what you're doing and I love how you're doing it. We will be keeping tabs on you and your progress, but I'm thinking that when the 12-months are done, you're going to be sitting on 144 of the best songs in a long long time..."

Dan Nash worked for many years at Atlantic Records and A&M Records with Suzanne Vega, Paul Simon, Foreigner, and many others as a sound engineer. He formed Just Great Management with producer - Niko Bolas, whose mixing, engineering, and production credits speak for themselves - Neil Young, James Taylor, Keith Richard, Rachel Yamagata, Warren Zevon, Tracy Chapman, Billy Joel, Kate Voegele, Steve Parry, Melissa Etheridge, Sting, and many more.

In January 2008, Sean Wright signed a worldwide deal with a top US management company Just Great Management.

In March 2008, Mark Tinley (Duran Duran, Adamski, Dandy Warhols) programmed, engineered, and produced Wright's landmark 12th album in the Album-A-Month Project."Tinley is a creative genius," Wright has gone on record as saying. A year later, in March 2009, Wright released EXIT RIGHT WITHOUT A SOUND his landmark 24th album in 24 months.

Archiving Song Lyrics

I've been uploading a whole bunch of my lyrics to my website www.seantwright.com as a kind of archive of my songs. I'm also adding the tracks themselves beside each set of lyrics. With twenty-four albums released to date, each containing 12 songs, I guess it's going to take awhile.

MIND ON FIRE VIDEO by Sean Wright

I've released a new video of my song MIND ON FIRE from album #19 SWEET LULLABYS. Enjoy.

Just released my latest video called STOP! from album #10.

It's a tongue-in-cheek video of my song STOP! Taken from the album "Long Live Love." Filmed as a comedy response to Neil Young's "Fork In The Road" title track. Btw, I love Neil's work, and do not want him to stop! Figure the rest out if you can.

SEAN WRIGHT'S ALBUM 23 - THIS LAND

My 23rd album release is called THIS LAND. It's got a folk-rock feel. You can listen to it and download ir for free at Last FM.

BLOW THOSE BLUES AWAY VIDEO

This is a video of my song BLOW THOSE BLUES AWAY. It was filmed in Venice. It tells the bitter-sweet tale of love. The song has been released on the albums LONG LIVE LOVE and DYLAN's DEAD.

ESSENTIAL

I've released a new compilation album called ESSENTIAL. It contains 20 tracks taken from the album-a-month project. I've often been asked "where do you start listening to Sean Wright's music - there are so many songs." ESSENTIAL points folk new to my music in the right direction. Listen and download for free at Last FM.

ALBUM #22 - A MILLION MYSTERIES by Sean Wright

I've completed album #22 in the album-a-month project. Twelve new, original tracks make up A MILLION MYSTERIES. Listen and download MP3 version for free at Last FM.

SACRED SOUND - ALBUM #21 IN THE ALBUM-A-MONTH PROJECT

I released album 21 in as many months today. It's called SACRED SOUND, and you can listen to it and download it in MP3 format for free at Last FM. It's a departure in musical direction for me, with all the tracks focussed on continuous sonic undertones. Music for meditation and connecting to our quiet places within.

SEAN WRIGHT RELEASES ALBUM 20 IN 20 MONTHS

I released my latest album today. Yep, the album-a-month is still ongoing! Album 20 is called INTO THE MOUNTAIN. It contains 12 new, original tracks. You can listen to it for free at LAST FM & JAMENDO. It's also free to download in MP3, bittorrent MP3 or OGG. Happy listening...

SWEET LULLABYS: Album 19 from Sean Wright

 

Album 19 in the album-a-month project is called Sweet Lullabys. It contains 12 new, original tracks written and recorded during October 2008. You can hear it in full at JAMENDO or LAST FM

Sean Wright's Idylic Meltdown

Album 18 in the album-a-month project is called IDYLIC MELTDOWN. It contains 12 new, original tracks. You can listen to it all at LAST FM, or listen to a five track EP version at JAMENDO.

SEAN WRIGHT'S SIPPING ON A RED BULL EP

I've released an EP today called SIPPING ON A RED BULL. It features five tracks from the TV LIFE album. You can hear at

1. I Believe In Love
2. Closer.
3. Shining
4. Miracle
5. Sipping On A Red Bull

DYLAN's DEAD? by Sean Wright

I've got to that point in the album-a-month project where I'm thinking: this track would go great with this track, and so on. Before I knew it, I'd put together 9 previously recorded tracks. The tracks knit together well, and I like that. They have a folk/country feel, some of my best lyrics and melodies, and more than anything they're very personal and emotional songs for me. I've called the project DYLAN'S DEAD? It's a rhetorical question. It's a big nod of the head to the legend. Anyone who knows about me and my music, also knows I have a handful of music gods I pay regular homage to - Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, and John Lennon. You can listen to the album and download it for free at LAST FM and JAMENDO very soon. Some of the tracks are very popular on Last FM already.

STRANGE CHANGE Album Released

Album 17 STRANGE CHANGE was released today. It's up for free download and listening at Last FM, and now here at Jamendo.

Sean Wright's Strange Change

Here's the new coverart for album 17 - STRANGE CHANGE. All being well, it'll be out at the end of August.

Album 16 Released

I've released my 16th album in 16 months. It's called UNDERGROUND. You can listen to it for free at LAST FM.

Sean Wright releases 15th album in 15 months

Album 15 in the album-a-month project was released today. That's 180 new, original songs written, recorded and released since April 2007. The album's called WELCOME TO STRESSVILLE. "STRESSVILLE brings me back full-circle to a harder-edged rock that could be said to mangle the Foo Fighters, Queen, and Bowie," Wright said. " It's cutting, poetic and anxious as hell." Listen and download MP3 versions of the songs for free at Last FM.

Welcome To Stressville by Sean Wright

The title of album 15 is WELCOME TO STRESSVILLE. Just finished recording the eighth song for album 15 in the album-a-month project. 12 days to go before release, with four more songs to write and record. Songs so far...

1. Welcome to Stressville
2. Haunting Me
3. This Life
4. Love You Baby
5. Arrow
6. Robot Man
7. Chameleon
8. Coming to Get You!

Sean Wright's Album 14 Released

Album 14 in the album-a-month project was released today. That's 168 new, original songs written, recorded and released in that time. The album's called BREAK THE CHAIN.
Listen and download MP3 versions of the songs for free at Last FM.

Break The Chain Complete

I've just finished recording the final song for album #14 - BREAK THE CHAIN. It's called "Boomerang." The album goes out at the end of the month.

Two new songs

Two more songs written and recorded this weekend - "Pie In The Sky" and "Tell Me." I think the BREAK THE CHAIN album is shaping up to be my most chilled and relaxed to date.

Album #14 Going Well

Album #14 is going well - with seven songs in the bag. Just five more to write and record before the end of the month.

Sean Wright begins Break The Chain album #14

I've begun work on album #14. Song one has been recorded. It's called "Break The Chain." I think it'll be the title track, too.

SEAN WRIGHT RELEASES ALBUM 13

LEGEND is my 13th album in 13 months. LEGEND contains twelve new, original tracks. The album chronicles the month following the death of my father.

LEGEND is a painful and emotional album for me. The songs are the most personal I've written and recorded so far in the album-a-month project. It is a tribute to my dad and his noble and brave battle against cancer. He'll always be a legend to me.

Listen to LEGEND for free.

SEAN WRIGHT TALKED ABOUT ON SONICSTATE

Well it's sonicstate.com's eighty-third talk show. Hear Mark Tinley (Duran Duran, Adamski, The Stranglers, Dandy Warhols, Gary Numan), Richard Hilton (David Bowie, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Elton John, Robert Plant) and Dave Spiers of GForce discussing all manner of music and synth-related topics. Oh, yeah, and the conversation eventually gets around to me. Cool, eh?
Listen hear.

SEAN WRIGHT INTERVIEWED ON DIGIVEGAS.COM

The www.digivegas.com interview has gone live on show eight-six. "I had a great time. I discussed the album-a-month project and many other topics, from working with Mark Tinley to old-school recording techniques compared to the digital revolution. Plus eight of my songs were played on the show too!

Here's what didgivegas said on the website link to the podcast.

"Sean Wright is my guest for DigiVegas episode 086. Wright is a British novelist, songwriter, singer, guitarist, and record producer. He's been around for a very long time, cutting his first record in 1978.

Possibly the most prolific musician in such a short time in musical history. He began writing, recording, and releasing an album-a-month in April 2007. Think about it, 12 songs per album, times 12 albums, equals 144 songs written, arranged, recorded, produced and delivered in 1 year. That's an average of a song every 2 and a half days IF he doesn't take a day off."

Listen to Sean Wright's Digivegas interview.

Sean Wright's "Why" re-mixed by Mike Euphony

The opening track of the WAR NO MORE album, "Why" has been re-mixed by dance production legend Mike Euphony (Heaven 7, Euphony, Warped Science).

Mike's latest project HEAVEN 7 was formed in 2005 by producer Mike Euphony and vocalist Vicky Fee. Together they are responsible for the creation of numerous hardcore anthems such as This Life, Dance with Me, Speak of Love, Kontact DJ and many more. Mike has also had hits with dance legend Al Storm

Mark Tinley is the original producer of "Why" and WAR NO MORE.

Hear Mike Euphony's re-mix of WHY.

Legend

Still working on album #13 LEGEND, but not much to say at the moment. Still up and down over the recent death of my dad.

Sean Wright featured on LA Story

LA Story have featured my music. It begins...

Musician and author Sean Wright is a killer musician who has this album a month project going on. (yes, really!! ) He’s incredibly talented and I have reviewed a couple of them but I can barely keep up with this man — and he’s writing books too. He’s genius!

Read more.

Sean Wright's "Why" featured at Rally Car driver's website

The opening track of my WAR NO MORE album "Why" has been featured on Rally Car driver, Dean Herridge's new website. "Why" is the intro/outro soundtrack for an interview with Bruce McKinnon on Dean's new 2008 rally car campaign. Listen to the soundtrack and interview here.

http://deanherridge.com/
Check out the rest of the WAR NO MORE album here.

SEAN WRIGHT COMPLETES 12 ALBUMS IN 12 MONTHS

I'm gonna write in the third person now, cause I snatched this release from my press release over at Last FM. Not lazy, but ridiculously busy with a hundred and one things to sort out with my dad. You can listen to and download the album for free right here.

Album 12 - WAR NO MORE - by Sean Wright was released at the end of March 2008, heralding Wright's remarkable achievement of writing, recording and releasing 12 albums in 12 months.

"War No More is a very special album," Wright said. "It's my first album that carries a strong anti-war motif throughout. It tells a story that switches narrative, from my strong personal views to the wider perspective of my alter-ego Jimmy, who appears in many of my songs. It completes a very traumatic and paradoxically creative year. It culminated with the loss of my father to cancer on the eve of the album's completion, as well as working with the innovative production genius of Mark Tinley (Duran Duran, Adamski, Dandy Warhols)."

Wright began his album-a-month project back in April 2007 and so far he hasn't stopped.

War No More Credits:
All songs written, recorded and performed by Sean Wright.

Programming, mixing, and production by Mark Tinley for funnymachine.com.

Guitar solo on track 12 "Bells Ring" was played by Kamal Laroiya.

Underground sample on track 6 "TrainLeavesWithoutMe.wav" by
"Acclivity" http://freesound.iua.upf.edu used under the creative
commons licence.

Peaceful Release

At 9.25 pm GMT my dad passed away peacefully. I have little left to say right now, except I'll miss my best friend and guide. The hole his departing has left inside me hurts like hell.

Knackered

I didn't sleep much at all last night, up tending to my dad. It's bad. His kidneys are knackered. I pray for a swift release. Can't get him into hospital until tomorrow morning.

Struggling

My dad is very poorly again, the cancer reasserting itself with vengance. He had another blood transfusion last weekend, but it seems like it hasn't helped much. His kidneys are packing up. I cancelled the family hols to Scotland. I need to be with dad.

SEAN IN TOP 100 POWERPOP WEEKLY VIDEOS

Must be something in the video waters, cuz I've charted at number 62 in the Powerpop Weekly Top 100 Music Videos. View here.

NME EXPOSURE FOR SEAN WRIGHT VIDEO

Hi there -

Hope you're enjoying the lovely spring weather! Just a quick update about my video "YouTube Lover." It's been recommended by one of Britain's biggest weekly music newspapers - the NME. Check out the link here.

WAR NO MORE update

Quick update on the WAR NO MORE album: all is on track for an end of March release, with Mark Tinley deep into the final bits and bobs of production. Really excited about album #12. It's got an electro twist that could only have come from the innovative mind of Mark. You have been alerted, folk.

Sean Wright On The Road

I'm playing live shows at this year's Broadstairs Folk Festival, singing acoustic versions of songs from my album-a-month releases.

Tuesday 12th August 1300 – 1400 Harpers Wine Bar

Weds 13th August 1930 – 2130 Folk Rock concert/dance Pavilion on the Sands

Friday 15th August 1300 – 1400 Ye Olde Crown

Broadstairs Folk Week began in 1965 as one man’s passion – the late Jack Hamilton decided that the lovely seaside town of Broadstairs was the perfect location for a folk festival.

During Folk Week, life in Broadstairs is set to music. In the parks, pubs, gardens, beaches and promenade; musicians - from the highly professional to the inexperienced amateur - get together in impromptu sessions whilst Morris dancers, Appalachian clog dancers, rapper sword dancers and many others demonstrate their skills on the streets and along the prom.

Album #13

I've recorded four new songs for album #13 over past week. Yes, I'm going to keep running this album-a-month musical marathon to see where it leads... Can I write, record and release a second year's worth of original songs every month? We'll see.

So, the songs so far for album #13 are " When The Morning Comes," "Sitting On The Moon," "Dirty Days," and "Johnny The Boxer."

SEAN WRIGHT RELEASES ALBUM ELEVEN

Album 11 - CUT ME UP - in the album-a-month project is released today. You can check out the tracks and download free MP3s of the songs at LAST FM.

Final track completes album #11

The final track for album # 11 - CUT ME UP - is called "Please." I finished recording today, and tomorrow I will master the track.

Wondering

Now I'm getting near to completing the year-long challenge - 12 albums (144 songs) - I'm wondering whether I should just keep on writing, recording and releasing an album every month. That wondering didn't take long. I'm going to keep on going and see where it leads.

Sean Wright Appears on BBC Sue Marchant Show

I was a guest on BBC Eastern Counties radio yesterday - that's Norfolk, Suffolk, Northants, Cambridgeshire, and Essex counties. The show went out live at 8:10 GMT for 40 minutes. I was interviewed by Sue Marchant about the album-a-month project, my books, war, and future music projects. I sang a live acoustic version of "War Can Wait," a song featured on album #12 - WAR NO MORE. Three more Sean Wright songs were aired - "Make A Stand," "I Keep Wondering," and " Love's Alive."

Thanks to the folk who emailed me about the show, with their views and thoughts.

Sean Wright records three new songs for WAR NO MORE

I've recorded three new songs since the weekend, all of them for album #12 - WAR NO MORE. The songs are "Nothing Worth Fighting For," "Don't... This Time," and "Ready Or Not."

Ready Or Not, by Sean Wright (13 Feb 2008)
(for the WAR NO MORE album)

You can run and you can hide, ready or not here I come
You can spin and you can slide, ready or not here I come.
You say you want to pacify me, ready or not, here you come.
You’re taking off like a Chinook copter, ready or not here you come.

This is a war zone, This is the terror from your mind
This ain’t a chess game, ain’t no winners behind your victory sign.

They say you’re a pacifier, ready or not here I come.
They want to throw you into the fire, ready or not here I come.
You’re a sonic boom rainmaker, ready or not, here you come.
You got showers spewing from your mouth, ready or not, here you come.

This is a war zone, This is the terror from your mind
This ain’t a chess game, ain’t no winners behind your victory sign.

Your victory sign…

Na na na na na na na na na x 2

You can run and you can hide, ready or not here I come
You can spin and you can slide, ready or not here I come.

This is a war zone, This is the terror from your mind
This ain’t a chess game, ain’t no winners behind your victory sign.

Verse - A/D/F/G Chorus - C/G/A

Easy To Walk Away by Sean Wright

Sometimes I write a song that I feel has it all: personal heartfelt lyrics, catchy melody, thumping groove, rich in textures and emotion. That song is called "Easy To Walk Away." It will feature on album #12 - WAR NO MORE.

Don't Know How by Sean Wright

I've written and recorded a new song for album #12 today called "Don't Know How." It's in the same musical vein as my song "People on the Street" which opened SPARKS FLY - album #9. Lyrically, it's very different to "People..."

Sean Wright on BBC Eastern Counties Radio

I'm appearing on BBC Eastern Counties radio next week - that's Norfolk, Suffolk, Northants, Cambridgeshire, and Essex counties. More details soon.

New Songs

I've written and recorded three new songs over past few days for album #12 - WAR NO MORE. The songs are "War Can Wait," "Why?" and "Queen Of The Verb."

Here's some lyrics...

Queen Of The Verb by Sean Wright (31 Jan 2008) WAR NO MORE album

(Verse 1)
Laid back and blonde, ready to explode
A bombshell exterior, he thinks you’re inferior -
He thinks you’re inferior!

You wear your tweed jacket, (wow) words volleyed from your racket (wow).
You command the stage, coming on like a raging sage.
Coming on like a raging sage!

(Pre-chorus)
Queen of the Verb, Princess of the Noun -
Lion-tamer with a word whiplash sound.

(Chorus)
She wants to drag you to the underground;
She wants to drag you down, down, down.
She wants to drag you to the underground;
She wants to drag you down, down, down.

(Verse 2)
Upbeat and dark, ready for war;
A nightshift mentality, she thinks you’re inferior -
She thinks you’re inferior; she thinks you’re inferior!

He wears pin-striped suits, gun strapped to his back.
You hate his protocol, he thinks you’re going mad.
He thinks you’re going mad; he thinks you’re going mad!

(Pre-Chorus)
Queen of the Verb, Princess of the Noun -
Lion-tamer with a word whiplash sound.

(Chorus)
She wants to drag you to the underground;
She wants to drag you down, down, down.
She wants to drag you to the underground;
She wants to drag you down, down, down.
She wants to drag you down to the underground.
She wants to drag you down, down, down,
Down, down, down, down.
Down, down, down, down…
To the underground.

(Na, na, na,na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.) ad lib - wants to drag you down.

Chords - Am/C/G/D.

LONG LIVE LOVE by Sean Wright

Album #10 - LONG LIVE LOVE - in the album-a-month project is released today. 12 new tracks. You can hear them and download them in MP3 format for free at Last FM.

Overlap

As I near completion of the year-long Album-A-Month Project, I have noticed an overlap in the final few tracks. This overlap happens because one project almost ends and another starts. Some songs don't seem to fit one album, so I record them and stack them up for the next.

This has happened especially with WAR NO MORE. It's three tracks good, two months before it's due for release. Still, this is no bad thing as I'm working with Mark Tinley (producer), and we are exchanging all kinds of ideas, so this album will take longer than normal.

Final track completes album #10

I finished the final track of album #10 - LONG LIVE LOVE. It's called "How Can Freedom Be A Dirty Word?" Now on to the mastering. The album will be released at the end of this month.

Isolation - The Dark Side

I've just finished writing and recording a new track called "Isolation - The Dark Side" for album #12 - WAR NO MORE. I'm very excited by the final album in the year-long album-a-month project. Having Mark Tinley (Duran Duran, Gary Numan, Adamski, Dandy Warhols) on-board as producer of WAR NO MORE is very cool.

The idea behind Isolation is simple: imagine we have destroyed our planet through the ravages of another absurd World War, and YOU and you alone have somehow managed to escape to the moon, and now you look down, but Earth is not there...

It's an image I see clearly in my head. It's a striking metaphor to my mind.

War No More

Three new songs are in the throes of pre-production and development with Mark Tinley. Mark is producing WAR NO MORE in the album-a-month project. WAR will be released at the end of March. I'm very excited about the collaboration. Mark has come up with some fine ideas and insights. He has worked with Duran Duran, Dandy Warhols, Gary Numan, Adamski, and many other artists.

So, the three songs under the microscope are "Let The Demons Out!", "How Many Jimmys?", and "Isolation - The Dark Side."

Sean Wright Signs Worldwide Deal

January 18th 2008, Sean Wright has signed a worldwide deal with a top US music management company. More details soon.

New Song

I wrote and recorded a new song called "Stop!" today. It'll feature on album #10, LONG LIVE LOVE, out at the end of this month.

Two New Songs

I've finished two new songs since my last post - "I Wish I Was A Letter," and "Our Love Will Grow." The flavour is country-rock with a smattering of roots folk going on in there. Album #10 has certainly got a country/folk feel running throughout all the songs. Two songs left to write and record to complete LONG LIVE LOVE.

Two new songs

I've recorded two new songs over the past few days. They are called "Some Days You Win" and "Turn Of The Screw" respectively. Both have grass-roots country-rock feel to them. I dusted down my harmonica for both of them. Great fun.

I recorded a different version of "Turn of The Screw" about a year ago, so there are now two versions cut.

Sean Wright Millside Radio Airplay

"This Thursday I'm playing a track of yours on my show 7pm UK time." Millside Radio Live Stream

So, why not check out Roy Wetton's show on Millside on Thursday 10th Jan 2008 and hear one of my newest tracks, along with some great classic music.

Sean Wright Recommends

You know every now and then I recommend exciting, talented new artists. Here's two new ones for your ears. Check them out please. They are superb.

Liam Gerner was discovered a while back by Peter Gabriel, and has been touring hard with Newton Faulkner (also superb), Amy Macdonald and others. I predict a great future for Liam.

Angus and Julia Stone are a wonderful song-writing team - brother and sister, hailing from Oz. Great songs and sound. Check them out.

Blow Those Blues Away by Sean Wright

"Blow Those Blues Away," was recorded yesterday - a song written in 16th February 2000. I've been wanting to record this one for ages, and it feels just right for album #11. The chorus lyrics run:

There's a lot that I've forgot since yesterday,
Don't you know, I've got to go,
and blow those blues away...

Album #10 - four new songs

I've written and recorded four new songs since New Year's Day. They'll feature on album #11. They are "Would You?", "Empty Heart", "Every Emotion In Between", and "You Can Change The World".

So far, all four tracks have a country/folk/rock feel, echoing back to my first release in the album-a-month project - TIDALWAVE. Acoustic guitars, sparse arrangements, and vocal melody feature strongly. Although this album hasn't got the same acoustic trad roots folky feel of say - ACOUSTIC ARCADE - album #4 in the album-a-month sequence.

I've been a life-long fan of The Eagles and one of their 1970s contemporary country rock bands - Ozark Mountain Daredevils. Album #10 certainly nods a head their way.

Having great fun writing and recording, and have some mega news from across the pond!

SHATTER VIDEO

Shatter is the title track of album #2 in my album-a-month project. It was filmed on the West Norfolk coast during August 2007 by Ben Wright.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to everyone following the album-a-month project.

Album #9 SPARKS FLY has been released today. 12 new tracks. You can hear them now and download free MP3 versions of the songs at Last FM. If you want to buy the physical CD just follow the Buy links at Last FM. Thanks.

Track Listing and play length:

01. People On The Street 3:39 FREE .mp3
02. One Love 3:55 FREE .mp3
03. I Wanna Say 3:59 FREE .mp3
04. Love's Gonna Keep Us Together 3:13 FREE .mp3
05. It Ain't Rock N Roll 4:37 FREE .mp3
06. Something For The Weekend 3:21 FREE .mp3
07. This Is It 3:31 FREE .mp3
08. Spirit Of 76 2:49 FREE .mp3
09. Baby I Do 3:38 FREE .mp3
10. Sparks Fly 3:38 FREE .mp3
11. Drifting 5:43 FREE .mp3
12. Ugly Bug Ball 4:42 FREE .mp3

Long Live Love complete

I've just finished the final track for LONG LIVE LOVE - album #10. Yeah, I finally settled on a title for this album. The last track is called "This World is Our World." The album will be released at the end of Jan 2008.

Track Listing...

01. You
02. Outrage
03. Runaway Train
04. Sleeping Soul
05. Ballad of Leon Payne (Long Live Love)
06. Yeah You
07. Cut Me Up
08. Squeeze Me
09. Stealing Kisses
10. Where Does The Love Go?
11. Echo
12. This World Is Our World

Red Rock Radio Airplay

Thanx to Jamm'n Jay for playing my music on her radio shows. "Red Rock" (from album #1) was aired on the show "ISIS Radio-1 State of Independence #15" in New York City. It went out on the 28th Dec 2007.

Listen to the ISIS Radio-1 State of Independence #15 podcast, featuring "Red Rock" and new music from around the world.

Echo

I finished a new song called "Echo" this morning. It's got a Foo Fighters/Nirvana feel to it. It'll feature on album #11. Happy holidays, btw.

New Songs for album #10

Three new songs written and recorded over the past three of days - "Squeeze Me," "Stealing Kisses," and "Where Does The Love Go?" Album #11 is going well. Just two tracks remain.

Cut Me Up

I completed a new song last night called "Cut Me Up." It'll feature on album #10. It's got a Rolling Stones/INXS vibe to it.

Collaboration

The Najam Sheraz and Sean Wright collaboration update.

So when the creative dust (of close to 50 hours work)finally settled, we wrote 14 new songs together. They are vocal/guitar imprints, with more work to be done later. But the lyrics and melodies are there, and we had a fine time writing them. The best of the bunch from my perspective was the song "Our Love Is Strong Enough," written on 9th Decemebr 2007.

More songs

Najam and I have now written ten new songs in the past five days. It's been an exhilarating experience working with him. There's talk of recording the album next year at some point.

New Songs

I've been writing new songs with Najam for that future album project. We've gotten together four great songs over the past few days, exploring some fine ideas.

I've also had time to record another song for my album-a-month project called "Yeah You!" which was totally transformed when Najam heard the song and added his vocals. Rock and roll!

Ballad of Leon Payne by Sean Wright

I finished a new song called "Ballad of Leon Payne (Long Live Love)" this evening. Anyone who knows of Leon's legacy will surely appreciate the sentiments I've tried to convey in the song. Leon wrote many classic country songs that have inspired his peers and many musicians ever since his death in 1969. It's my small tribute to a great songwriter.

"Ballad of Leon Payne" will feature on album #10 and you can preview it it on myspace right here. If you click on the lyrics tab you can access the words, too. Neat, eh?

New Sean Wright Song "Sleeping Soul."

I've just finished a new song for album #11 called "Sleeping Soul." The chorus runs...

It takes more than a phone call
To wake a sleeping soul -
It takes more than desire
To make me feel the way you feel inside -
To make me feel the way you feel tonight

Runaway Train New Voice

My very good friend Najam Sheraz made a flying visit to my home yesterday evening. After we'd been out for dinner, I played him the song and he loved it. We re-recorded the chorus and outro vocals. It sounds great. Plus there's a new counter-melody line at the end of the chorus.

I guess the main differences between my original version and the one featuring Najam is the vocal treatment, which is lush and more prominent in the mix.

Then this evening I raced Najam to the train station and he travelled back to London for another meeting with the film guys shooting his new video. Happy days.

I'm now busy writing new lyrics, too, for a 2008 album-project collaboration with Mr Sheraz. Exciting times indeed.

NB: Najam has new photos/slideshow of the Trafalgar Square show in which I played guitar and sang on stage with him. Go here.

New Song, Runaway Train

I've finished a new song called "Runaway Train." It was inspired by my visit to London last weekend. It'll feature on album #11.

Outrage complete

My new track "Outrage" is now complete. Added a couple of guitar parts and mixed the track this morning.

London

I've just got back from London. I spent Friday evening and most of Saturday in the company of my good friend Najam Sheraz. Although we talk to each other almost daily on Google Talk, the last time I hooked up with Najam was back in July for the Trafalgar Square show. Najam's here to sing at the Global Peace and Unity Event at the Excel in London, and then he's shooting a new video in London with Natalie Williams.

Outrage

I've written a new song called "Outrage!" Not finished yet, but getting there. It's got a Nirvana/Foo Fighters/Metallica feel. I'm having great fun.

You

I finished writing and recording a new track called "You." It's got a Nirvana/Foo Fighters feel. I'm looking forward to writing and recording more songs for the new album - album #10!

Sean Wright's Album #9 title

I've recorded two new songs this weekend and thus completed the recording of album #9 which I'm calling SPARKS FLY. Yeah! The songs are "Drifting and Drowning", and "Ugly Bug Ball." Think: Led Zep, White Stripes, Bowie, Blues and you'll get some of the sound picture.

Download 360 Feature Sean Wright Free Downloads

Download 360 ran a small feature on my album-a-month project and my decision to allow folk to download my music for free in MP3 format. You can read it here.

Sparks Fly!

I've completed a new song - written and recorded over the past couple of evenings. It's called "Sparks Fly." I'm really excited about this track. Possibly one of my most catchy songs melodically and certainly very satisfying lyrically. It's gotta Iggy Pop, Bowie, Sean Wright (Love's Alive and Walking Pretty) feel to it. I think.

It also features a guest performance by Trish and Daniel. Great stuff!

New Sean Wright song - baby I do.

This evening I finished a new song "Baby I Do". It's a love affirmation song, a very positive upbeat ditty. It'll feature on album #9 - as yet untitled.

Spirit of 76

The "Spirit of 76" is a new song recorded over the past couple of evenings. It's a bit of a re-working of a very old song. I wrote this song in 1976. It was called "Social Reject." back then, but I've changed lyrics here and there. But the manic punk feel has not gone away. It was great fun to do!

Something For The Weekend, new song

I've just completed the recording of a new tune - "Something For The Weekend." How would I describe this one? Think: Yotube Lover, Make A Stand. That kind of vibe.

Song 5 for Album #9

Just finished recording a new tune called "It Ain't Rock N Roll." Think Rolling Stones meeting AC/DC meeting Oasis on a dark night! Yeah, rock n roll! Great fun.

The chorus runs... It ain't rock n roll, it's intellectual suicide, It ain't rock n roll, it's like drinking spiritually peroxide, It ain't rock n roll, it's metal overdrive...

See, I told you it was fun.

New Songs recorded for album #9

I've finished writing and recording two new tracks over the past three days - "I Wanna Say" and "Love's Gonna Keep Keep Us Together." "I Wanna Say" is rather experiemental in its approach - kinda Led Zep/Lenny Kravitz feel, to my ears.

"Love's Gonna Keep..." feels very "Sean Wright" if you know what I mean - think: "Walking Pretty", "Make A Stand," "Edge of the World," "You Tube Lover," and add a slice of Mott The Hoople, and Blur, and well... I guess you're just about there.

Anyway, album #9 is four songs good. Yeah.

Sean Wright's album-a-month on BBC TV

The BBC Look East television news programme ran a feature on my album-a-month project yesterday evening. You can view my interview with Will Parry right here.

As well as making the regional news, the album-a-month is spreading nationally via the BBC Blast website. I have no idea how long these links will last, as they are news based but it's great to see the word getting out across the UK in this way.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blast/reporters/arts/

20,000 Myspace Friends

I'm so pleased that my friend count on myspace for one of my pages has reached 20,000. It's a kind of landmark I guess. My other page is hovering at about 18,000 friends. It means that my muisc is getting heard to a wide and varied audience. Cool.

New Song - One Love

I've written and recorded another new song for the untitled album #9 in the album-a-month project. It's called "One Love." Vocally reminds me of the classic rock band Kansas for some reason, possibly becuase I streched the harmonies in this one, and almost wrecked my vocal cords!

All Album-a-Month Tracks Free as MP3 downloads

I've been busy on Last FM - uploading the whole catalogue thus far in the album-a-month project. I've decided to offer MP3 downloads of each album for free. I know... I'm a generous guy. So with album #7 about to be released - that's 84 songs available for free download. Why should Radiohead have all the fun? Rock on! FREE DOWNLOAD THE ALBUM-A-MONTH PROJECT.

Subway Bridge complete

I've completed the recording of my new song - "Subway Bridge" for album #9. It chronicles the tale of a close friend who died many years ago from a drug overdose. As yet album #9 remains untitled.

Album Nine Begins

I began album #9 in the album-a-month project this evening. The new song is called "Subway Bridge". It's kind of a melding of Paul Weller and Foo Fighters! Yeah, I know... unlikely but true. To my ears at any rate.

GHOST IN MY HEAD VIDEO

tHIS SONG IS FROM ALBUM #6 IN THE ALBUM-A-MONTH PROJECT - CALLED gHOST iN mY hEAD. eNJOY! Tongue-in-cheek, of course.

TV LIFE complete

Album # 8 -TV LIFE - is now complete! Yeah!!!

New Tracks for album #8 - TV LIFE

I've finished the new track "Sticks In My Throat" and tonight laid a foundation for a new track called "Sipping On A Red Bull." I'm really pleased with the feel of both songs. Totally different to one another, but most satisfying. TV LIFE is almost complete.

BBC Edits

The guys at the BBC are editing last week's filming about the album-a-month project and my writing. Can't wait to see the end results. I've almost finished a new song called "Hot".

Closer

I just finished a new song called "Closer" for album #8. Really enjoyed the groove of this one.

Sean Wright Reaches Top 20 Myspace Chart

Yeah! I've made it to number 17 in the Myspace Top 100 Indie Chart. Basically, if folk visit your myspace page and your songs get played a lot you go up the chart. Nice. (although if you read this tomorrow it will have changed!) Such is life.

Red Rock New York Airplay

Thanx to Jamm'n Jay for playing my music on their radio shows. "Red Rock" (from album #1) went out on show ISIS Radio-1 State of Independence 10 in New York City
Listen here... to the podcast

Track Eight For Album #8

I've just finished recording "Party Like The End Of The World Has Come" - track eight for album #8. I think the title tells all.

Filming Complete

The BBC Look East folk left about an hour ago, after filming me in my little studio. I sang "Love's Alive" from album # 5 - SATELLITE OF SOULS - for no other reason than the fantastic response it's got on myspace over the last month. One fan even went as far as to say that it was the "complete pop song." Well, as nice as it was to hear, I don't know about that.

The feature on the album-a-month on the BBC will go out next. I'll let you know as soon as I know, so Eastern England UK folk have an opportunity to tune in.

You Tube Lover Video by Sean Wright

Here's my latest video - a tongue-in-cheek video of my original song "You Tube Lover." Written, recorded and produced by Sean Wright for his album-a-month project. "You Tube Lover" features on album 7 - MEGALITH - released end of October 2007.

YouTube Lover

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Metal To The Floor

Another new track written and recorded this weekend - pop-rock anthem called "Metal To The Floor" which looks at the addiction of speed and fast cars. It'll feature on album #8.

Miracle

I've just finished writing and recording a new song for album #8 called "Miracle." It's a kinda Foo Fighters meets Stereophonics, I think.

Album-a-Month to feature on BBC TV

The BBC Look East TV folk are going to do some filming about the album-a-month project, my association with Najam Sheraz, and my writing career. I'll let you know when they plan to air the finished feature.

Gotta Get Up

So I'm on fire at the moment. I'll admit it. Another song recorded called "Gotta Get Up." Yeah, I know, the sexual connotations abound. It's very James Brown meets the Killers meets - what for it... perhaps Calvin Harris (no secret that I think the guy is a modern genius). Simple melodies that are catchy and danceable as hell. It's going to feature as track 5 on the new album (still with a working title of TV LIFE).

TV Life

At the moment, I'm toying with the idea of my latest recorded track - "TV LIfe" - becoming the title track of album #8. I had great fun recording this song, which includes the beautiful lyric - Sergeant Bilko's doing fine, drilling squadies into line - Oh Yeah!

It feels like Bowie meets the Editors meets Blondie.

Sean Wright's Dead In The Water

I finished recording a new song written over the weekend called "Dead In The Water." It's part fiction and a great deal fact. My grandfather walked 20 miles to a job and 20 miles back again day after for almost a month back in the 1920s. Times were hard. Even though he's been dead for 25 years now, he's still my idle. "Dead In The Water" tells the story of his circumstances and journey. It'll feature as track 3 on album #8.

New Song - I Believe In You

Written and recorded a new song called "I Believe In You." It's gotta kind of Stereophonics feel to,it, I think. It's the second track of album #8.

Foy Vance

I saw the awesome Foy Vance live last night in Cambridge. It was a great gig - with the young, talented Thom Stone kicking off the show. Truly, a wonderful talent. Check him out in my recommendations.

Album #8 Begins

Onto album # 8 (as yet untitled) with a new track called "Shining." I wrote and recorded the song over past couple of evenings. It's got an Editors feel to it, I think.

Rhymes For Modern Times

I've just finished a new track called "Rhymes For Modern Times" which I started yesterday. It's got an Arcade Fire/The Clash feel to it. Which means that album #7 - MEGALITH - it complete!! Yeah.

Right - moving onto album #8.

Bridge Of Love

I've written and recorded a new song today called "Bridge Of Love." The writing and recording process took about two and half hours in total. I'm very pleased with the emotion and overall feel of the song - kinda ballad Scorpions meets Eagles. It's track 11 on album #7 - MEGALITH. Anyone who knows about the ups and downs of watching a loved one dying of cancer, and the bag of mixed emotions that comes with it, may relate to "Bridge Of Love."

Don't Move A Muscle

Just putting the finishing touches to a tongue-in-cheek song called "Don't Move A Muscle". It feels like Kaiser Chiefs meets Mott The Hoople meets Lou Reed. Anyway, I've had great fun writing and recording it. It's the first song I've ever written where the subject is a bank robber called Dirty Den. "Muscle" will feature as track 10 on album #7 - MEGALITH.

Two new tracks

Two new songs recorded for MEGALITH - album #7. "Emotion Runs Deep" has new wave/punk feel, while "Utube Lover" is well... hard to pin down. Yeah, I know - Utube is spelt youtube.

At the moment the songs are coming together very well. In the zone.

At last!

I think I have the title for album #7 - based on, of course, the seventh song recorded over the past two evenings. The lyrics and anthem feel of the song sum up what I think #7 is all about.

The chorus runs...
"Like a shadow on the wall, you can never see it all,
Cuz our inner life's unknown, a megalith made of stone."

So, album is called MEGALITH!

New song, but no album #7 title yet

A new song "Stay With Me" was recorded over the past two evenings. It's gotta sort of Eagles/Ozark Mountain Daredevils/Springsteen feel to it. I think. To my ears anyway. It'll make the cut on album #7 - as yet still untitled. I've been through a whole bunch of options for the title and keep changing my mind. Aargh!

New Sean Wright songs: Mr. Tibbs and That Face Is You

On a roll... I've written and recorded two new songs in the past couple of days. Both songs will feature on album #7. They are called "That Face Is You" and "Mr. Tibbs," a song inspired after watching Heat of The Night in which Sidney Poitier plays the wonderful Mr. Tibbs.

BBC Blast Article on Sean Wright

A couple of weeks ago I had the great pleasure of being interviewed by Will Parry for BBC Blast. We discussed my music career, writing, and the album-a-month project. The result of that interview can be seen here.

Happy

I've been busy writing and recording a new song for album #7 called "Happy." It starts as an acoustic picking folk-roots song and then explodes into something else completely! Of course. I'm happy with it.

Making an Album-a-Month by Sean Wright

I uploaded my new video "Making an Album-a-Month" on Sunday evening. I'm surprised that it's gotten over 1000 plays in two days on MySpace. Surprised and pleased.

New track on a sunny day

Beautiful sunny day here in Norfolk. Leaves falling very early. There's an autumnal feel no doubt. And I'm working on track 2 of album #7 - which is untitled right now. It's got a kind of Beatles/Kinks/Small Faces mod feel to it.

Released - album #'5 in Sean Wright's album-a-month project

Here we are again. Another super release. Album #5 in the album-a-month project is called SATELLITE OF SOULS. You can listen to and download some tracks for free right here. It's more punk/pop/powerpop than my previous releases - featuring popular myspace tracks "Walking Pretty" and "Love's Alive".

Sean Wright On Last FM

I've begun the long upload road of my tracks on Last FM. I registered back in April but have been too busy to do much about adding material, and also I find that Last FM is a pain to upload tracks to. It's very hit and miss. So I'll begin reloading more tracks ... You can check out my scrobbling progress here.

Hey why not come on over to Last FM and friend me? If you already have a free account there, then I'd love to hear from you.

New Sean Wright Song

So work has begun on album #7 - yeah. No idea what I'm calling it at this point. I recorded the first track today called "My Guitar".

Come On Through video

Just adding my debut video COME ON THROUGH because this blogger thing now let's me. Which is kinda cool. I hope you enjoy it. The song is featured on album #3 - EYE IN THE SKY.

Album #6 complete in Sean Wright's album-a-month project

Yeah! That's half way! I've just finished mixing and mastering the 12 tracks that will make album #6 in the album-a-month project. Half way! OPEN YOU EYES will be released at the end of September.

Just six days till release #5 -

SATELLITE OF SOULS.

Ghost In My Head

Just completed a new song from an original lyric and melody that leapt out of the old grey matter yesterday. It's called "Ghost In My Head" and has a sixties blues comes Racontuers feel. Very pleased with the recording of it.

Re-mixes and fixes for two new tracks

I remixed my songs "One Again" and "Fuss Bus". Oh, yeah, I re-recorded the lead vocal on "Bus" and re-did the drums. Way too much reverb floating around in the original mix. Anyhow, all done now and featuring on album #6 - OPEN YOUR MIND.

New Sean Wright Song

Just finished recording a new song today called "Walking By On The Other Side". I think it's another anthem, and will feature on album #6 - OPEN YOUR MIND.

Two New Songs

I've written and recorded two new songs this weekend. They're called "Best Of Friends" and "In The Sand." It's difficult for me to describe musical references to them. But I guess 'Friends' has a Lou Reed/Lloyd Cole feel, and 'Sand' echoes around Coldplay/Jeff Buckley/U2.

They'll appear on album #6 - OPEN YOUR MIND.

Sean Wright Makes Myspace Music Charts

Hey - fine news and a big thanks to the folk who come to myspace and play my music - I've made the Myspace Top 100 Charts for UK artists. I'm at 65 in the UK Indie Chart in the Classic Rock genre and number 29 in the Powerpop charts. The chart is based on music plays. Although tomorrow it'll be all change. I guess a daily chart does that...

Here's a fun thing to do. Ha. Go to MYSpace Chart and click on Powerpop or Classic Rock genre (make sure it's set to UK chart) and browse through to where I am now.

New Song - Make A Stand

I'm just finishing the vocal overdubs for a new track called "Make A Stand" which will feature on album #6 - OPEN YOUR MIND. They'll make seven songs done for this album out at the end of September. It's an anthem - with Lou Reed & David Bowie undertones, and Kaiser Chief moderntones.

New Song - Fall Down

I've written a new song called "Fall Down." It came in a mad rush, out of the blue yesterday, and within 40 minutes I had the melody, lead vocal, acoustic guitar, bass, and two electric guitar parts nailed and recorded. Now I'm tweaking and sorting out the dynamics, and added some backing vocals today. It will feature on album #6 - OPEN YOU MIND. Man, I love it when they come fast like that! Wow! take a deep breath and carry on.

Sean Wright Recommends New Talented Singer-Songwriters Jay Nash and Hannah Scott

I'd like to recommend two indie artists - one from the US and the other from the UK.

Hailing from the thriving Los Angeles indie scene, Jay Nash's music is eternal - beautiful, heartfelt songwriting that touches souls. That what I think anyway. I hope you agree with me. You can hear Jay's songs here. I get a Cat Stevens vibe from Jay's sound.

And from Ipswich, Suffolk, UK, Hannah Scott is a superb young singer-songwriter who has recently released (July 2007) her debut album TILL ANGELS FALL. I love Hannah's vocal and her songs touch me deeply, just as Jay Nash's do. I get a kinda Kirsty McColl feel from her music. Listen to Hannah here.

From Roots to Open Your Mind

You know this creative thing called song-writing takes some twists and turns. A couple of months back I thought album #6 would be called ROOTS - with a blues, rock n roll feel. I had in my mind a very traditional/acoustic feel to the album, calling up folk like Elvis, Little Richard, Muddy Waters, BB King, Roy Orbison, Eric Clapton as frames of reference, but hopefully performed and arranged in a modern way.

But things change. Album #6 is four songs good so far, and it's shaping up to be another anthem-based epic. Go listen to the title track "Open Your Mind" and you'll hear what I mean. But, ROOTS will happen. Probably around album #10.

Open Your Mind

Yeah - now this is a cracking recording of a song I wrote as an acoustic/vocal arrangement way back in 1992 called "Open Your Mind." I'd never recorded it before now, so I was very pleased and surprised with the results of this one. An anthem, methinks! It'll feature on album #6 as the title track - OPEN YOUR MIND.

Update

An update on my dad. Well the chemo is out of his system pretty much. He's had a really good month, so fingers-crossed for the quality to continue. We've days out and he's doing jobs around the house. He gets tired quickly, but that's only to be expected.

Edge of the World

I've finished writing and recording a new track called "Edge of the World." which will feature on September's release - OPEN YOUR MIND. It's gotta kind of B52, Talking Heads feel, I think. But as usual, that's probably just my frame of internal musical reference which is way of base.

Gotta Get Up and U R

That song that came out of the blue on Sunday has now been recorded. It's called "u r.". I'm pleased with the groove and general vibe of it - very hard to pigeon-hole though. I hear some John Lennon in there, but that means little because I hear John Lennon's influence in so many songs nowadays.

Anyway, it's done, and I've been working on a new song called "Gotta Get Up." It's a dance track - kinda James Brown meets Mark Ronson meets Calvin Harris. It'll feature on album #7 - which has a working title of DANCE. Album #7 will certainly have a party flavour. When I was teenager I was heavily influenced by Earth, Wind, and Fire, the Bee Gees, and latterly I have a lot of time for Calvin Harris' simple drum and bass groove, and love his lyrics and melodies.

Out of the blue

I spent a relaxing family day out yesterday at the Norfolk Broads, and just 10 miles from home a new song popped into my head. I heard the piano chords vividly in my head. The first couple of lines and melody soon followed. I repeated them over and over until I got home and then hurried to my studio to put down a rough guide. More words followed, and then a chorus. Sometimes songs come out of the blue like that, without my guitar, but not often. Most times those songs are lost, but not this time! Ha! Gotcha!

New Song Recorded - "Like You Said"

I've finished recording a new song called "Like You Said." I developed the initial lyric and melody yesterday, and recorded it today. It's gotta kind of The Fray/Cary Brothers feel, well to my ears anyway. And a similar feel to my track "Impossible" which featured on albim #1 - TIDALWAVE. "Like You Said" has also got a hook that's hard to get out of your head. You can hear it on album #6, out in September. The album is called OPEN YOUR MIND.

Well, you'll never guess who Sean Wright met at Trafalgar Square - Part 1

Got to thinking about last weekend's show at Trafalgar Square, and thought "now who did I meet?"

Well one really nice guy was none other than Paul Raymond - of UFO fame! In the lobby of the hotel, this guy played piano every night, played it very well. He looked familiar - with his jet black hair styled like early Freddie Mercury. I used to watch the heavy metal band UFO live at the Cambridge Corn Exchange in the mid to late Seventies.

I sang John Lennon's "Imagine" with Paul around the piano, and Najam sang Queen's "We are the Champions." Then we headed off to Ronnie Scott's in Soho to listen to the superb Natalie Williams, and the amazing Monty Alexander Trio.

Then there was... but I'll save that for another day.

Trafalgar Square London Show A Great Success

I'm back after a brilliant long weekend in London, rehearsing and performing live on stage at Trafalgar Square, London, with Najam Sheraz. It really was a very special event, with Pakistan film, pop, and sport's stars in attendance. 12,000+ crammed into the Square - the biggest crowd at Trafalgar for such an event since Nelson Mandela's Abolition of Child Poverty speech in Feb 2005. Najam opened the 4 hour show. Millions watched the extravaganza worldwide via GEO TV. I sang and jumped about a lot on stage. The crowd were brilliant and very responsive, out for a good time, which they certainly had.

My son, Ben, taped the show for me, and so I nearly fell off my chair when the first live feed was a shot of me jumping about! Happy days.

If you have not heard of Najam Sheraz before, you need to check him out. Seriously. His voice and energy are unreal! www.najamsheraz.com

Trafalgar Square Show Update

Geo TV have a front page link to the Trafalgar Square show this coming Saturday - 28th July. It's an impressive line up, and I'm very proud to part of the celebrations. I'll be on stage with Najam at 3PM. Other celebrities, sport's personalities, fashion designers, actors, , fashion models, and singers include - Waqar Younis, Jahangir Khan, Ali Zafar, Meera, Faiza, Iraj Manzoor, and many more.

Sheyana

As well as finishing up my next Jesse Jameson book (book 6), I've been writing a new song with Sheyana. It's called Take Some Time. Sheyana's a very talented singer-songwriter, who lives in Tasmania. The song came about in a very organic manner, chatting on IM, and the result was a lyrical collaboration, which I've now added a melody to. I plan to record it at some point.

Cooking or Overbaked?

I've been working on a re-mix of "Love Is A Fire" which I'm a lot happier with than yesterday. It seems to me that there's a fine line between cooking and overbaked. Hopefully, it's cooking!

Crying Shame

Now this was great fun! Just recorded a new song "Crying Shame." It'll figure on SATELLITE OF SOULS. It has a kinda U2 come The Cult come Cary Brothers feel. But not too eighties, I hope. Never can tell how other folk react. Never can.

PS - getting excited now about the Trafalgar Square show this coming Saturday.

The Greatest Thing by Sean Wright

Working on the track "The Greatest Thing" right now. I'm having fun with it. In my humble opinion, the chorus has a fine, fine hookline. It'll feature on SATELLITE OF SOULS - out the end of August.

Re-recording

I've been working on a new track called "Get Away," re-recording a couple of guitar parts. The song will feature on SATELLITE OF SOULS - album #5 in the album-a-month project.

Video shoot for Sean Wright's Jacket Off

Okay, I admit it, I've gone video mad, but hey - strike while the muse is hot! Right? So, check out video number three - JACKET OFF. Tongue in cheek, of course.

New video for Shatter by Sean Wright

Filmed a new video on the Norfolk coast this evening. We had a great time filming it. Ben is a camera star! Check out SHATTER right here.

Sean Wright's Debut Video on Myspace

My debut video - the song COME ON THROUGH - is now out there on myspace. I had great fun doing the video in a four hour shoot. The track is featured on my latest album EYE IN THE SKY, and it seems to be one of my most popular songs with folks who leave comments. Actually there are TWO versions of the video. Enjoy. Watch here.

Storyboard for Sean Wright's Come On Through

I've been planning a storyboard for a video shoot of my song "Come On Through." I feel ready to shoot it now, so look out for it soon. Youtube and myspace will host it. I'll let you know. All the editing software is ready, and the camera guy is clued up. It should be a buzz. It'll be low budget - no doubt. Independence has its price! Ha! But full of energy! Of course!

Back to the studio

With Najam leaving today for London, it's back to recording more songs for my album-a-month project. Itching to get at it! Checking out!

Recording

I'm writing this from Orange Music Studio in East Sussex. I'm upstairs with Mark Edwards, who's recording a keyboard section for Najam's new song, the final song for hid forthcoming album. Downstairs I've been sitting in the control room, with Chris Eaton at the mixing desk, while Najam nails the vocal. Earlier Dan Wheeler came in a recorded an acoustic guitar track.

In many ways it madness trying to record so fast, and yet... these guys are really talented and seem to relish the challenge.

Chilling

Najam has been with me here in King's Lynn, UK, since Wednesday. We are having a great time. My kids love him. He's been chilling, getting ready for this weekends recording session down in East Sussex. It's the final track for his forthcoming album release in mid-September 2007.

We've played cricket. Man, he's good! Pool - not so good. Been out for some fine meals, played songs, worked on new song lyrics and melodies, talked music, music, music, and Najam multi-tasks from conversation, to coffee, to email, to phone in a never-ending loop of creativity and deals.

Some more US dates were confirmed today for August.

Sean Wright To Play Trafalgar Square

I have some incredible news. Najam Sheraz has invited me to perform with him at the 60th Anniversary celebrations of Pakistan's Independence on Saturday 28th July 2007 at Trafalgar Square, London. Over 100,000 people are expected to attended the event.

American Adventure

I'm back! After 5 days of non-stop adventure! I'm back from plane trips from London to USA, four internal flights within the States, two torturous train rides across New York - one in sweltering heat. I'm back from many car journeys, hours and hours of rehearsals, in awe of the super-fit Bollywood dancers, and secret locations, and an MTV connection, high powered dignitaries and congressmen, stretch limos, chauffeur-driven cars, balmy heating-zapping weather, and too much air con. I'm back with connections to folk heroes - Bob Dylan, and Joni Mitchell, NY underground connections to Lou Reed, to top promoters and artists from another continent. I'm back from a massive gig, spending quality time was a bunch a wonderful friends, and amazingly talented musicians.

I'm back, feeling jet-lagged, but on top of the world! But that's all I can say. It's too much.

Album #4 looms...

Eye In The Sky Out Now

So, album #3 EYE IN THE SKY is out in the album-a-month project. You can download the titled track right here for free.

New York Bound

I'm at Gatwick Airport, about to board for New York. Then I have a mad dash to Long Island. Wish me luck!

Rehearsals

I'm going to busy - very busy - over the next few days rehearsing a bunch of songs for a secret show, which I can't tell you about. Very excited. Looking forward to the challenge enormously. So if I'm silent on here for a while, you know I am deep in the midst of song preparation, guitar part learning, vocal part learning. Catch you later.

Paradox

You know when you want to tell the world about something so fantastic but you can't? Well I have the paradox now. The end. Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!

Home Again - Yeah!

Yeah! My dad came out of hospital today - after three weeks of a horrid nightmare. He hasn't slept hardly at all whilst there, and is now sleeping like a baby, back in the peace and quiet of my rural retreat I call home.

His water infection (number two) is clear, and now we must brace ourselves for his second stent op in a ferw weeks and a scan to see what effect the chemo has had on the lung cancer.

I spoke to the consultant last Friday. She said it had retracted about a centimetre, in both tumours, in each lung. It's something but not much considering the awful time he's had.

Still it's great to have him home.

New Song for Satellite of Souls

I've just finished recording a new song for album #5 - SATELLITE OF SOULS. I wrote this one on the 18th and recorded it over the past couple of evenings. It's called "Get Away." It's up-tempo and kinda Killers meets Lou Reed!

"Move in, Move out, Get in, get out of this care,