Artist telling stories through music

West Sussex musician Ed Blunt is celebrating the release of his debut album.

Ed, who lives in Graffham and also in South London, has brought out Over The Moon.

“It’s my first album and it’s basically one of those lockdown albums you hear about. It was all written over the course of the lockdowns but it is not really about the lockdowns.

“It’s about lots of different things though there is quite a lot of space-related stuff on there.

"The title is Over The Moon and space is just really one of those things that I’m really interested in. I’ve always been a bit of a geek about the Apollo programme and about NASA and when you sit down to write a song these sorts of things seem to come naturally.

"There is another track called The Universe Is Ours. It’s saying our little planet is having all these wars but when you Zoom out we’re just a tiny little pixel.

“I like telling stories with the songs.

"If you listen to the album each song is its own mini-tale.

“I’m 31 and I’ve been working as a musician for a long time now.

"I studied jazz piano at the Guildhall School and after that I played quite a few years as a piano player for other artists doing gigs and playing in a band.

"I also run a choir in London called The Camden Voices, like a jazz close harmony choir.

“But it was the lockdown that got me started on writing my own songs.

"I had not done so before in any serious way.”