The Lore of Falling Bodies
I am a poet, singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer. In 2025, I released my debut album of music and poetry: The Lore of Falling Bodies.
I ran a successful Kickstarter campaign to crowdfund resources for the mastering and manufacture of the vinyl and a print run of a book of the poems which feature in the album. The campaign, which Kickstarter awarded with a ‘Project We Love’ certification, raised over €7000 in one month.
The album is available on Bandcamp
The poems from the album
The Lore of Falling Bodies is touring throughout 2025-26. The premier was on 28/06/2025. For more live dates, click here.
I wrote, performed, produced and mixed all the music and poetry in The Lore of Falling Bodies. I also created the artwork. The Kickstarter campaign enabled me to collaborate on the design of the project with Büro Gestalten in Cologne. In reference to the digital and analog methodologies underpinning the production of the album, they took my charcoal artworks and manipulated them across the different media.
there's nothing to do
night falls
but night doesn’t fall
bodies fall
we in this force
must acknowledge through skylights
the moon
we sip
we nibble
under the mossy skylights
they are just skylights
so far from being
actual or possible causes
of the tides themselves
and yet
it's through the skylights
we see the moon move
the mossy moon move
In 2025, I collaborated with Jamboree Productions to record a film for the final track of the album. This track - Houns Tout - opens with a poem I wrote for my sister's memorial. The shoot took place over the course of an evening on heathland in Suffolk, UK. Watch here:
Pine Pollen Dance
Music by Theo Best PINE - POLLEN - DANCE
A collaboration with Henry Fletcher www.henryjf.xyz and Jamboree productions https://jamboreeproductions.com/about/ One of many creative outcomes of 10 days spent on the wild Suffolk coast in spring 2025.
A residency of sorts. Each day begun early with a meditation, a swim, then off to the pine tree to catch the light of the golden hour. The music sprouted from an earlier sketch. Very happy it found its home among the needles and pollen.
For more shorts, clips, experiments, etc, see my Instagram and Youtube channels