TiLT is a song cycle inspired by the seasons with a movement for every month of the year. I’m releasing a song a month from April 2024. www.bertiebow.com @bertiebow Change of Season I actually wrote and first recorded the hook and 1st verse of this song back in October 2020. Way before TiLT was even an idea. You can find that version on YT called Ennui. I always wanted to return to it and when I realised I didn’t have a composition for October it fell perfectly into that spot, not just because I wrote it in October but because it was about that feeling that so many of us have at this time of year during this change of season. Don’t get me wrong, I love October- the weather is really unsettled but often beautiful with all the autumnal colours.. but it is the reminder that the nights are getting longer and it’s a long old wait till spring.

I don’t seem able to hand my work in early.. it’s always at the last moment possible. BUT I have reached the half way point and not missed a deadline yet so yay me! We’ve reached the 6th movement. Autumn. This is called Turning. Celebrating the contradictions of a September day from clear blue skies and hazy fields to huge storms and a gale. You can paint her any number of ways. TiLT is a composition/album/songcycle that I’ve composed inspired by the seasons. I decided to release a movement for each month of the year starting in April 2024. Fine me in bandcamp @bertiebow or Bertie Anderson Haggart to download any of the tracks

Introducing “Canicular” the 5th movement from TiLT. The Canicular Days are the hottest part of the year- between late July and early September. The creative process on this one was quite different. I took a theme from the previous movement “Lammas” and improvised around it on the piano and then used those recorded improvisations as building blocks to compose with. Then adding electro acoustic production techniques to give it that quivering shimmering heat. I recorded the strings of the piano with the sustain pedal on which gives it that sense of weightlessness to create an auditory mirage. The improvisation was a journey to take the listener from Lammas (mvt 4) to movement 6, “Turning” which will be out in a few weeks. In fact all the movements of TiLT merge into each other to be listened to in one sitting to give a sense of the wheel turning. TiLT is a 12 movement collection with a composition composed and released for each month of the year starting in April 2024. Please check out the other movements on my youtube channel @BertieBow or on my website or bandcamp pages www.bertiebow.com or if you’re in the future then they will hopefully be on other streaming sites. Thanks!

The Colour Of Summer is the 3rd song from my song cycle TiLT. The video for this is highlights of Glastonbury 2024. It wasn’t my original plan for the music video but as I was at Glasto the last week of June and it felt right! Every month for a year I’ll be releasing a track from my new album “TILT” inspired by the seasons and the cycle of the year. I wrote each track during the season it was inspired by, weaving in field recordings from around where I live. Songs available to download from my Bandcamp page https://bertiebow.bandcamp.com First release: ‘Something New’ - Spring/April Second release: ‘To Life’ - Beltane/May Third release ‘The Colour Of Summer’ - Summer/June @bertiebow www.bertiebow.com

Every month for the next 12 I’ll be releasing a track from my new album “TILT” inspired by the seasons and the cycle of the year. I wrote each track during the season it was inspired by, weaving in field recordings from around where I live. Second release: May, Beltane - ‘To Life’ This is all about May and Beltane . Based around the very old Song Sumer Is Acumin In with field recordings of May sounds in North Norfolk and the vocals are sampled from the last line of the April song ‘Something New’ from the same album. www.bertiebow.com @bertiebow

Every month for the next 12 I’ll be releasing a track from my new album “TILT” inspired by the seasons and the cycle of the year. I wrote each track during the season it was inspired by, weaving in field recordings from around where I live. First release: April, Spring - ‘Something New’. Whilst the lyrics are all about spring and new life the arrangement is entirely inspired by ‘orc pop’, the sonic world of the pop orchestras of the 1960s and 1970s. As a 19 year old feeling lost and not knowing whether I wanted to continue playing the viola, I would listen to Morricone, Mancini, Bacharach, Herb Alpert & the TJB, riding on the top deck beside Hyde Park wearibg tinted yellow shades. Unabashed & gloriously romantic, emotional and nostalgic and always filling me with warm feelings. available on Bandcamp

Here’s my 2022 festive, sparkly, shimmery, feel good song Pass It On. Inspired by a very generous man who, when asked what he wanted in return for his generous acts, simply said “when you can, in whatever way you can, pass it on”. Sometimes the smallest act can start a chain of positive acts, like when you get let into traffic, so you let in someone further down the road and then they do the same and so and so on. Pass it on. spread the good will & acts of kindness. The track will be available to download and stream from 17th December on all platforms so please listen to it on repeat so I can get a Xmas number 1 😆 In the meantime here I am channeling my inner Elton John. There are also two special guest appearances too…. Director - me DoP - my Dad Eddie Anderson Stylists - Alf & Pops Designs Leaf throwers - woodland pixies Edit - me with the help of @Videoleap Special Guests Evie Anderson Poppy Cora

I created this animated film for the Musical Advent Calendar in 2020. The song I wrote a few years ago. I found the lyrics in some journals written by my Great Great Aunt Kit. They are attributed to a Mrs Cowie though I couldn’t find any more about them or her online so decided to put them to music. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen was a story that I found uncomfortable as a child and still do today. To buy the song or hear other songs inspired by the the journals or to find out more about me and my music then please visit my website www.Bertiebow.com I have never made an animated film before. I didn’t really plan it either! I just sat down and started drawing thinking I would just use a still image. But then I fed it into the app Videoleap on my iPhone 11 and started playing around and before I knew it I had created this little film. I really hope to do more in this area in particular for other songs and stories inspired by the journals and local lore of Poppy land in North Norfolk.