Website: <a href="https://davidwilliam.mystrikingly.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://davidwilliam.mystrikingly.com</a><br /><br />If you are able to, please support my work by buying from Bandcamp rather than the streaming services. Not only is it a fairer deal for me as the artist but you get a download to keep at high quality which is the way my Music is designed to be listened to:<br /><br /><a href="https://davidwilliam.bandcamp.com/album/head-above-water" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://davidwilliam.bandcamp.com/album/head-above-water</a><br /><br />Paypal donations are also appreciated: <br /><a href="https://paypal.me/davidwilliammusic" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://paypal.me/davidwilliammusic</a><br /><br /><a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/0NoUGGPWuJ4KNpnxbDxtUe" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://open.spotify.com/track/0NoUGGPWuJ4KNpnxbDxtUe</a><br /><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Head-Above-Water-Seven-Worlds/dp/B0767PCSX4" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.co.uk/Head-Above-Water-Seven-Worlds/dp/B0767PCSX4</a><br /><a href="https://music.apple.com/gb/album/head-above-water/1293266658" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://music.apple.com/gb/album/head-above-water/1293266658</a><br /><br />Odysee: <a href="https://odysee.com/@DavidWilliam" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://odysee.com/@DavidWilliam</a>:f<br />Vero: <a href="https://vero.co/davidwilliammusic" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://vero.co/davidwilliammusic</a><br /><br />All instruments by David William<br />Mixed & Produced by David William<br />Photography & Artwork by Kate Threadgould<br /><br />Returning from a backpacking trip around Europe in November 2002, I upgraded my very basic home studio set-up from a 4-track cassette portastudio to a 16-track digital portastudio. The first original song I recorded with this new set-up as a kind of test recording was "Across The Ocean", a song I'd written a few years earlier. I completed the track by the end of 2002 and then began work on what was to become the 'Head Above Water' EP at the beginning of 2003.