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I was born in London, grew into Classical music, joined a choir, played sport, all the usual stuff. Heard a choir of angels at 13 and was changed- then discovered girls and other types of music. This was the end of my ‘normal’ good boy life. Got a guitar. Teenage madnesses followed, songs electric and acoustic were written. Broke down at 19.
Formed a couple of unknown bands, Spiritwalker (ahem) and The Chantral during 1983- 1994. Left England to live in Prague for love, and am still there/here for the same reasons.
Since being in the Czech Republic, I have written five books: Zen Garden, Orpheus Blues, The Disappearing Englishman, My Guardian Daemon and Darknes and Light
Various lyrics, rants and ‘poems’ from these and some older writings (Best Dregs) are available from my other site www.geocities.com/orpheusengland My diary blogs will be available both there and here, depending on my webmistresses having the time to put them on for me. (Thank you both, with love.)
All of these books have been released by me, because ‘vanity publishing’ is better than hanging around waiting for a deal. Get out and do it. I have written various songs for other musicians/bands and have recorded 5 full legnth cds; Unknown Songs, Not For Sale, Astral Grafitti, Normal Little Songs, Grown Up Young. All with Petr Pinos as engineer, and patient spiritual guide. Am now recording new cd Mandalai and playing concerts in beautiful Prague, with a violin, cello, harmonica and second guitar.
All my songs are written as they come, this means that many different styles are used, depending on what the song itself, not me, requires. Bollocks if that sounds pretentious.
The downloads on this site will be on a rotating basis- songs which show what I do, but not the best ones obviously. Free is free and work is work. No I am not on Youtube.
I LOVE MUSIC. Anything, if it is good, is good. Favourites have been/and are; Hawkwind, Motorhead, Killing Joke, Roy Harper, Swans, Leonard Cohen, Can, Tool, The Waterboys, orginal blues, Bert Jansch, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Zappa, Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance/Lisa Gerrad, Banco de Gaia, Meat Beat Manifesto, Letajici Koberec etc etc. There are many, many more, but these are the ones I return to constantly. For me, the greatest ‘down in the line of duty’ heroes are Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Buckley. Blessed.
And until you have heard the Dalai Lama singing, you haven’t lived.
I hope you enjoy something here, if not from me, then go to the Recommended section and find something wonderful, whether spiritual or kinky. Myspace has thousands of sites and life is short, so thank you for spending some of your time here- all power to your creativity! May your spirit guide your life. David Westfield, Prague July 2009.
ALL SONGS COPYRIGHT AURA PONT S.R.O 2008