Mor - The Wisdom of Simple Things (2024)

A clinical psychologist friend once told me that most of his clients, when you stripped away the personal case details, essentially were struggling with their relationships. It was a revelation for me in my early twenties and it changed the way I saw the world.

He was referring specifically to person/person relationships but I soon realized that this was just the tip of our relational iceberg. My writing reveals, I hope, that I’m drawn to the exploration of relationships.

Hymn to the Ordinary captures my feelings as a father and the title track explores our relationship with truth. Yet other songs explore relationships with our beautiful planet, notions of success, ‘god’ and the other species we share this ‘pale blue dot’ with.

I am absolutely convinced that if we were more mindful of our relationships, if we really put them front and centre, a lot of the misery we create for ourselves and others would be avoided. To write and sing about it then is both catharsis and prayer for a gentler, more peaceful world.