Just uploaded some new music tracks to last.fm for a friend of mine.

The album is called “Anything is Possible” by Marc Hirst and you can listen to it at the link here.

I recorded a new version of “Walking in the Air” this week. You can download it from this link or go to my last.fm artist page and listen to it along with the rest of my music.

I’ve written a couple of instrumental pieces this year and here are the results. I wrote ‘Spring’ in March and was playing around over the weekend and came up with a piece I’m calling ‘Eternal Hope’.

Let me know what you think…

As usual both tracks are available from my last.fm page:

• Spring
• Eternal Hope

I’ve finally got around to uploading my latest recordings.

Please let me know if you like them!

As usual the recordings are just me on the piano + a tiny it of editing and are entirely my own arrangement without referring to sheet music.

You can download them using the links below and you can also listen to them and/or download them from my last.fm page:

• As The Deer
• It’s Your Blood
• Little Star
• Farwell Spanish Ladies
• The Lord’s My Shepherd Medley
• When I Survey
• Don’t Want to Miss a Thing
• Yesterday
• What a Friend Medley

I’ve been exceptionally busy over the past month finishing off a lot of things before I start at Warwick University including training my replacement at my job in Leicester, finishing off most of the work on the Alpha Sales and Stock Database System for the 6 clients which are currently using the software, and other odds and ends as they came up.

As a result I haven’t been able been able to work as much on the volunteer based projects I’ve involved in such as BlenderArt, the Blender Challenges (www.blenderchallenge.com), the Entertainer Media Center etc. I’m hoping that once I’ve settled into a routine at Warwick I’ll be able to fit those back into my schedule.

My first day at Warwick was yesterday and it went well. I sorted out Computer Logins, got my Eee on the network, joined the gym and the climbing club (the indoor climbing area is impressive!), worked out where the important buildings are and continued the work I’ve been doing on a CAF + LAG player.

I still have some things todo, such as getting an annual pass for the car park, which I have to do today. I’ve got some more music recorded as well which I’ll be uploading to this blog and last.fm sometime soon.

Here’s some more instrumental piano recordings that I put together.

First there’s Moon River, very short clip.

Then there’s a couple of instrumental peices of some Christian songs I’ve written. The idea is to get a rough idea of the music down so I can record them with a friend in 2009. Here they are:

• Almighty God
• Give Thanks
• Holy is the Lord

I’ve uploaded everything I’ve recorded to last.fm

I’m thinking about doing The Sound of Music, Blue Moon and Angels…

A seasonal piano peice for you all.
The Snowman (Walking in the Air)
Rec.and Arr. Joshua Scotton

Just came across the Sockso Personal Music Server project. Here’s instructions on how to get it going…

I’ve been helping set up a music website/blog for a friend of mine.

After uploading all the music over at last.fm where you can listen to the tracks, we took a while finding a simple way to sell the music on the site.

The main requirements were for an easy way to sell downloadable products and accept paypal payments.

We finally came up with a plugin for wordpress called e-commerce which works well, and we used that to create the shop.

You can see the finished website here.

I’ve been mucking around with this piece for a while now and managed to get a semi-decent recording over the weekend.

It’s completely from memory and by ear but it’s still recognisable as the theme from Braveheart – “For the Love of a Princess”

All it needs is some bagpipes in the background…

Heres the link: http://www.joshuascotton.com/misc/my_music/ForTheLoveOfAPrincess.mp3