Welcome to Andy Oldfield's writing and music
site, inspired by the jackdaws, waves and
dunes of St Ives Bay, Cornwall, UK

News
2024
October 22: The Dog Who Buried The Sea flash fiction got the audio treatment courtesy of the fantasy fiction podcast PodCastle. Listen wherever you pick up your podcasts or stream directly Episode 862: Canine Companions. Devin Martin's reading is a joy and Matt Dovey is as good a host as he normally is.

A new  track, Imagined Games 1: We Waited To See If Dragons Are Real, was released on Bandcamp on October 17, and other streaming platforms later in the month.

#amwriting
Work in progress is a new novel - a coming of age story with a speculative fiction flavour. Sort of Catcher In The Rye meets War Of The Worlds and The Kindness Of Women via a Dimension Of Miracles, Bill The Galactic Hero and Aesop's Fables.

#amreading/rereading
Him Geoff Ryman; Awakening Icarus Hoode; Folk Tales Of The Cosmos Janet Dowling; Jumbo Back To Nature Helen Cresswell; Lud-In-The-Mist Hope Mirrlees; The Kindness Of Women J G Ballard; Fairy Tale Alice Thomas Ellis; The Wood Wife Terri Windling; Upon This Rock David Marusek; Small World David Lodge.

2023
September: a new EP, Elements, available for download on Bandcamp and streaming on all the main platforms.

In July, a second volume of my science fiction and fantasy short stories became available in paperback, Kindle and Kindle Unlimited versions via Amazon. Torn Between The Dark And Light features 17 stories, mostly published in print magazines between 1985 and 2019, with a couple of previously unpublished stories and some first published online.  

Cornwall Dreaming - a collection of five short stories and one novella, set in and inspired by Cornwall's land, folklore and people -  published January 2023 at Amazon. The stories range from fable through fantasy and realism. The book is available in paperback, Kindle, and as part of Kindle Unlimited.

An EP of music based on the stories in the book is also available on Bandcamp and at all the music streaming sites.

2022

Lunar Seas an album of space drone music exploring the seas of the moon is now up on Bandcamp and the major streaming and download  sites.

2021

A new short story The Dog Who Buried The Sea has been bought by Flash Fiction Online. It's a mythical fable about connection and co-operation between species. Makes me teary-eyed. Goes live in Issue #98 on November 5.

A new album of ambient drone music Chakralibrium is available on Bandcamp for pre-order purchase from July 15 and released on the streaming sites  August 6. Korg Wavestate took centre stage on this one, with help from Korg Kronos, Arturia V Collection, Pigments and Alchemy. Excellent for meditation, learning, focus and tripping out with...

I fired up the Moog Matriarch and the MakeNoise 0-Coast to write a piece of modular-synthesizer styled electronica music based on my experiences of dog-walking at night during lockdown. Nocturne In The Time of Covid 19 is available on YouTube. Available from March 12 on the main streaming platforms.

2020
A new album Interstices was released on Samhain eve - October 30th. Ambient, experimental electronica available for purchase and streaming via Bandcamp - streaming on all major services.

CD Baby is no longer selling downloads. Bandcamp is now the best source for purchases of my music - usually the cheapest too!

2019
A complete album version of my neo-classical ambient composition Orbit is now online at YouTube.

Music video By A River On The Edge Of Town is now online at YouTube.

Short story video, Jack The Giant Killer, uploaded to YouTube

2018

Fiction update: The Tideline won the Readers Choice awards at NewMyth.com. Thanks to everyone who voted

Short story, The Tideline, appears in issue 43 of NewMyths.com. Also reprinted in anthology Passages, available in print and on Kindle.

Album, Orbit, released onto all the usual streaming and download sites.