I Write the Songs I Hear in My Head.
I am Joseph Laurence - A songwriter and composer from the UK making warm, cinematic music. Real life and imagined worlds collide in it: the feeling of a place, a story, a person, turned into something you can press play on and disappear into.
A Melodic Mind, Finally Let Loose.
Music has played in my head for as long as I can remember - Full melodies, chord progressions, whole arrangements arriving uninvited. For years I chased them the long way round, producing tracks from scratch that mostly stayed private. The ideas were never the problem; getting them out cleanly was.
I think like a technologist and hear like a musician, and the two have finally met in the middle. With the right tools I can move at the speed of my imagination - Composing at the piano, writing the words, arranging every detail, and shaping the final sound until it matches what I heard at the very start.
The result is four worlds: Arcadian Sky, a cinematic look up at a beautiful and dangerous horizon; The Inner Circle, a heartfelt ode to the people closest to me; The Runaway Mine Train, my theme-park single that is out now; and a wider theme-park concept taking shape next. Different feelings, same hand on the wheel.
The Inner Circle, Off the Clock.
The records come from a real life - Nights out, daft adventures and the people who make them unforgettable. A couple of snapshots from along the way.
The Things I Will Not Compromise On.
Melody First
Everything begins with a tune worth keeping. If the melody does not move me, nothing else gets built on top of it.
Feeling Over Polish
I would rather a track make you feel something than be technically perfect. The emotion is the point; the rest serves it.
Worlds You Can Enter
Each record is a place with its own light and weather - Made to be stepped inside, not just heard in passing.
Honest About the Craft
Composer first, technology second. I am open about how the music is made, because the songwriting is mine and I am proud of it.
Whatever the world - A wounded sky, a kitchen full of friends, the top of a lift hill - The job is the same: turn a feeling into something you can live inside.
Come and Have a Listen.
The records are taking shape. The best way to follow along is to hear them for yourself.