"Prescient" (2015) by Nothing At All is available on all digital platforms, including Spotify.

Around 2012, totally disillusioned with performing in public, I had registered on the Bandmix site seeking like-minded locals just to jam at home.  Martin Hale contacted me out of the blue via Bandmix in 2013 (the only worthwhile and non-time-wasting contact ever made through that site) saying he liked some tracks from "Not All It Seems" .  Almost the same age, and both from the UK, we luckily gelled musically and socially.   We began to meet once a week, jammed and had a good laugh while working up a solid and extensive repertoire of songs, with no particular goal other than the enjoyment of playing good music. It was a great combo ... the first time I had ever played with someone who could play lead guitar.  For example:

Towards the end of 2014, we challenged each other to come up with something for a national songwriting challenge.  To our own surprise, within a couple of days, we each had a song!  We started recording on my basically-never-before-used Pro Tools setup.  It was painful learning process, but we got to a point where we had produced one song we could actually submit to the competition. The home production bug had hit us and Martin bought his own setup (Logic Pro on Mac), and we continued writing/recording separately ... only seeking ideas/critiques/feedback from each other.  We were both retired at this point, so we had the time to comb the net for tutorials and slowly develop our DAW skills.   When we reached the point of diminishing returns, the album was released at the end of 2015.

Martin was not enthused with the 'Songbook' concept but I managed to get him to write a few paragraphs on the genesis and development of each of his own songs.  I pruned my contributions about my own tracks down to a similar amount else there would have been an ugly imbalance.  As a result, the companion Songbook is the thinnest of the four volumes, although it still has the full chords/lyrics.

Any questions ... just ask.

I started creating music videos for the whole album, bullying Martin into doing one of his own.  We subsequently pulled these from public view as we could not guarantee that ALL the images were copyright-cleared (the amount of easily-available and specifically 'free' material was much thinner on the ground back then compared to now).   Late in 2020, having completed the videos for album 3, I used my remaining stock library membership to produce the only video I had never managed to create back in 2015 for lack of suitable imagery.  Cleared for public display, here it is:

Box Vol 2 - PRESCIENT.pdf