Name: Atlum Schema - Empire of the Soul (Original Single Version) @AndyMort
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Atlum Schema - Empire of the Soul (Original Single Version)

Andy Mort | Music 2026-09-22 | Atlum Schema - Empire of the Soul (Original Single Version)

The Box (Suomi Sessions)

Andy Mort | Music 2026-03-31 | From 2025 Suomi Sessions. The Box is on Year 0, an album I released in 2014. The lyrics feel eerily more appropriate given the state of the world today than when I wrote them fourteen years ago.

It was cold that day. The plectrum kept falling from my numb fingers. The strings cut through my tips like cheese wire. But it was worth it. I think.

Listen to the original: andymort.bandcamp.com/track/the-box

June (Suomi Sessions)

Andy Mort | Music 2026-03-28 | June was written in 2003. Confusing teenage feelings make nice songs. This was always fun to play live in Aphron - drum machine, synths, and kaoss screams.

The bass always messed with my ability to pitch my vocal. I played it in Espoo, Finland last year. Another Suomi session. I'm back in the same room as I write this.

Want to hear the original? Drop a comment and I’ll send you a little link…

Green screen throw back - 2009 gunfight at the ok corral LEGO video

Andy Mort | Music 2026-03-24 | ...

Best Days (Suomi Sessions)

Andy Mort | Music 2026-03-23 | Dipping into the videos we recorded in March 2025. It felt meaningful to record Best Days in Oulu, which was the destination of my first trip to Finland in 2018 during the hardest season of my life.

This was filmed a stone's throw from the venue where I was invited to speak and perform in August that year.

Also the site of my first memorable Finnish sauna experience at the end of that trip. I didn't travel with swimming gear, and wasn't planning to visit the hotel pool, but they had some communal budgie smugglers behind reception they insisted on lending me. often wonder how they came to be the share pair (lost property?) and if they're still in rotation somewhere.

Maybe one day we will be reunited...

Listen to the original version of Best Days: youtu.be/UNnzu6iv2xY?si=aIRRV3573RpUeeD3

You’re the first to know when it rains

Andy Mort | Music 2026-03-21 | It pays to be on the outside.
Upper stories. Higher ground.
Not an involuntary canary in this coal mine.
The early warning signal to get out of town.
Pecking with a stiff-jawed clout,
Jumbled, garbled nonsense
is all that comes out.
A sympathetic parlance,
in televised thoughts and prayers.
This status quo is kindness,
with its extended hand of refuge, love, and care,
for the right sort of price.

Music - Trapped In The Basement from Atlum Schema: One World Less

Flume (Bon Iver Cover) | Suomi Sessions

Andy Mort | Music 2026-03-19 | In 2025, I carried a guitar around Finland for a few weeks and recorded songs in a few nooks and crannies I found along the way.

This is a cover of Bon Iver’s Flume. I played it in a sauna. The sauna was not on at the time.

Other versions of this song:
2012 - youtu.be/zeFysM748VE
2015 at the Big Comfy Bookshop youtu.be/2J06kZXKCRs?si=TJGYVstZMkfwmT8F
2019 Livestream - youtu.be/Qp86Jg0QrT0

Empire of the Soul | Home is No(w)here Session

Andy Mort | Music 2026-01-19 | From the Home is No(w)here Livestream on Friday, 2nd January 2026.
Empire of the Soul is on Atlum Schema - Year 0: andymort.bandcamp.com/album/year-0
Support my music: patreon.com/andymort

Lyrics
We drove it down.
Kingdom and settlement fell beneath our feet.
They beg and call,
Shouting for freedom from arms
and industry

We are the accepted face.
We make the rules for the game.
Carry the gun filled with fatal saving grace.

This is an empire,
I’m sure, 'cos the thing that we fear is the thing we fight for.
This is the empire of the soul.

We stole the past.
Culture and evidence fell beneath our feet.
The small man knelt,
reached for the gun I had given him;
so I took my aim

We are the accepted face.
We make the rules for the game.
Carry the gun filled with fatal saving grace.

This is an empire,
I’m sure, 'cos the thing that we fear is the thing we fight for.
This is the empire of the soul.

Dreams and stories
We destroyed it
Change and market the truth

Stain (Suomi Sessions)

Andy Mort | Music 2025-06-28 | I can’t get the taste of blood out of my mouth
I bit my tongue too hard, too often, so I wouldn't shout
It drips through the grooves where the paper cuts out,
This page is the stage where my silence is echoing loud.

You’re in the corner of the back room,
You hold your crystal ball with boxing gloves
As you dance your clumsy dance

Where you see a stain, I see a memory
When it starts to rain, I can feel the life flowing through me
Where you see a stain, I see a memory

What you obeyed became your god.
And what you denied is now indisputably Real
What you didn't say turned into your truth
The nest that you poked became undeniable proof that you

Are in the corner of the back room,
You hold your crystal ball with boxing gloves
As you dance your clumsy dance

Where you see a stain, I see a memory
When it starts to rain, I can feel your life flowing through me
Where you see a stain, I see a memory

March 2025, Äkäslompolo, Finland

Tin Soldier (Suomi Sessions)

Andy Mort | Music 2025-04-25 | Full Version: youtu.be/UV-98xSTb8Q

Lyrics:
I waited for an accident
to work upon my broken heart.
The fate of the immaculate
was buried from the start.

I got a ride with the old tin soldier,
he let me hide at the back of the bus.
I couldn't find what the old man told you
So I decided to let him rust

You sank into an empty page
Hoping it would talk to you.
The rank and file of every age,
Was playing fast and loose.

I got a ride with the old tin soldier,
he let me hide at the back of the bus.
I couldn't find what the old man told you
So I decided to let him rust.

I'm out of my depth again
I'm out of touch
I'm out of my depth again
I'm losing touch

I got a ride with the old tin soldier,
he let me hide at the back of the bus.
I couldn't find what the old man told you
So I decided to let him rust.

Recorded in a small kota, March 2025, Äkäslompolo, Finland

Songs from the sauna cabin #livemusic #saunamusic #acoustic #Finland

Andy Mort | Music 2025-04-05 | ...

Lilac Wine

Andy Mort | Music 2025-02-14 | I was inspired to cover Lilac Wine after listening to Nina Simone's album Wild is the Wind.

Andy Mort Livestream | Autumn Songs

Andy Mort | Music 2024-10-14 | Thanks for joining me. Always a joy!

Set List
00:00 Out of Sorts
03:26 Empire of the Soul
07:38 My Own Excuses
15:03 Tiny Little Lies
18:39 Stain
22:25 End of a City
29:03 Tin Soldier
32:36 Best Days
37:36 Breathe
43:22 This Grave
48:14 Last Train
52:38 Pretend
56:29 I'm OK
59:41 Stone
01:03:19 Traveller

Last Train (Earlybird at Temperance - youtube.com/watch?v=GUBGSYJABO4)
Stone (Earlybird at Temperance - youtube.com/watch?v=DfVK7ZwWSns)

All Other Releases: andymort.bandcamp.com
Virtual Tip Jar: https://andy-mort.ck.page/products/livestream-tip-jar

Sunset at Nallikari (Oulu) | Serenity Island Theme

Andy Mort | Music 2024-08-12 | I've been preparing The Return to Serenity Island course for another voyage. After spending a week delving into its nuts and bolts, I recorded the theme tune - and even included some electric guitar...an instrument I don't often pick up.

This video is a sunset over one of my favourite places in the world - Nallikari in Oulu, Finland - filmed by Tuula. I was struck by the way humans are drawn to be with the natural environments around us. To witness, collaborate, and integrate into moments such as these.

serenityisland.me

Opening The Doors (Live Solo) | Atlum Schema

Andy Mort | Music 2024-08-03 | It's fifteen years since the release of Atlum Schema (andymort.bandcamp.com/album/atlum-schema). I spent an unexpected day playing, re-imagining, and recording the songs.

Breathe (Live Solo) | Atlum Schema

Warning Light (Live Solo) | Atlum Schema

Ink Star (Live Solo) | Atlum Schema

Feeling About For Conformity in The Dark (Live Solo) | Atlum Schema

Gunfight at the OK Corral (Live Solo) | Atlum Schema

To The Skylight (Live Solo) | Atlum Schema

Andy Mort | Music 2024-07-23 | It's fifteen years since the release of Atlum Schema (andymort.bandcamp.com/album/atlum-schema). I spent an unexpected day playing, re-imagining, and recording the songs.

I Can (Live Solo) | Atlum Schema

Andy Mort | Music 2024-07-19 | It's fifteen years since the release of Atlum Schema (andymort.bandcamp.com/album/atlum-schema). I spent an unexpected day playing, re-imagining, and recording the songs.

Ballad of the Self-Blessed, Self-Less (Live Solo) | Atlum Schema

Andy Mort | Music 2024-07-17 | It's fifteen years since the release of Atlum Schema (andymort.bandcamp.com/album/atlum-schema). I spent an unexpected day playing, re-imagining, and recording the songs.

Hold On (Live Solo) | Atlum Schema

Andy Mort | Music 2024-07-12 | It's fifteen years since the release of Atlum Schema (andymort.bandcamp.com/album/atlum-schema). I spent an unexpected day playing, re-imagining, and recording the songs.

Closing The Doors (Live Solo) | Atlum Schema

Andy Mort | Music 2024-07-10 | It's fifteen years since the release of Atlum Schema (andymort.bandcamp.com/album/atlum-schema). I spent an unexpected day playing, re-imagining, and recording the songs.

Closing The Doors (all we see is fading out now)

Andy Mort | Music 2024-07-03 | ...

Sleep It Off - Andy Mort | Sofar, Coventry

Andy Mort | Music 2024-06-17 | ...

Pretend - Andy Mort | FeltLive at Gonzo, Coventry

Andy Mort | Music 2024-06-09 | ...

A Cafe on The Corner

Andy Mort | Music 2024-05-31 | A little thing I created earlier.

Catch the Silence | Atlum Schema (One World Less)

Andy Mort | Music 2024-05-21 | From my 2011 album, One World Less: andymort.bandcamp.com/album/one-world-less

Fragments of Recall (Live Jam)

Andy Mort | Music 2024-05-21 | It's taken me a week to figure out how to program and map the MIDI from the Behringer FCB1010 pedal to Mainstage. I think I will sleep well tonight.

My Disappearing Absence

Andy Mort | Music 2024-04-20 | Walking home, a familiar shadow kept coming and going. There and gone. Accompanied by a little piano idea I was experimenting with this week.

Tiny Little Lies (Andy Mort Live at Gonzo)

Andy Mort | Music 2024-03-09 | Tiny Little Lies is part of the Home is No(w)here project that started at the end of 2021.

This was filmed live at Felt, Gonzo in Earlsdon (Coventry)

Support the project: patreon.com/andymort
Spotify Discography: open.spotify.com/playlist/2nNJo6fXyChpsrGIcf8TQ3?si=162ab620e2d84b8b
Learn more about Felt: https://www.felt.live/

Livestream | Songs To Let The Light In

Andy Mort | Music 2024-02-19 | Thanks to those who joined me on Sunday 18th February for a little live trip through some of my back catalogue. When things feel dark, music always seems to produce a crack for the light to get in. It brings us together and gives space to stop doing, stop worrying, stop impressing, stop thinking, stop hustling, stop forcing, and just be. For a moment. To pause. Forget. And re-member together.

Set List

Stain
Nobody Will Find Us
Tin Soldier
Gravel Heart
End of a City
I’m ok
Leaders of The Free World
Sleep it Off
My Own Excuses
Breathe
Best Days
Last Train
Tiny Little Lies
Traveller

Releases: andymort.bandcamp.com
Virtual Tip Jar: https://andy-mort.ck.page/products/livestream-tip-jar

Pretend (Andy Mort - Live at Gonzo)

Andy Mort | Music 2024-01-07 | Pretend is part of the Home is No(w)here project that started at the end of 2021.

This was filmed live at Felt, Gonzo in Earlsdon (Coventry)

Support the project: patreon.com/andymort
Spotify Discography: open.spotify.com/playlist/2nNJo6fXyChpsrGIcf8TQ3?si=162ab620e2d84b8b
Learn more about Felt: https://www.felt.live/

Andy Mort | Still Time (Lyric Video)

Andy Mort | Music 2023-12-21 | Written and recorded in one week as part of the Rapid Response exhibition at the LTB Showrooms in Coventry (Autumn 2023). They lyrics were inspired by audience answers to the question: "if tomorrow was your last day on Earth, what would you choose to do (or not do)?"

Rapid Response was created in reference to the looming demolition of the Litten Tree Building (home of the LTB Showrooms). The beat in Still Time is comprised of found sounds from the creaking floors and doors around the building, which I wanted to let speak before it loses its voice forever.

Credits:
Music and Lyrics written by Andy Mort
Inspired by attendees of the Rapid Response Exhibition at the LTB Showrooms, Coventry (October 2023) with Jane Bracey
The beat is made from creaking floorboards and doors around the Litten Tree Bar before its scheduled demolition in early 2024.
Special thanks to:
Atmos (bass recorded on location at the LTB)
David Smout (guitars and additional production)
Ben Munday (guitar)
Matt Cotterill at 300 Acre Studios (production and mixing)
Mastered by JP Braddock at FormationAudio

The Beat Was Lurking Right Here #FoundSounds #LTBShowrooms #coventry

Andy Mort | Music 2023-12-20 | Still Time was written and recorded during the Rapid Response exhibition at the LTB Showrooms in Coventry. I created the beat using sounds found around this historic building ahead of its demolition. I wanted to let it speak before it falls silence.

Listen to the finished song wherever you stream them: andymort.ffm.to/stilltime

Rest (Ambient Reimagining)

Andy Mort | Music 2023-09-29 | Part of my series re-imagining songs from my back catalogue as ambient instrumentals.

It's the fifth song on The Final Scene.

I talk about Rest on Patreon as part of my Growth Without Grimace series, which is exclusively available on Patreon.

Join me over on Patreon and help fund Home Is No(w)Here: patreon.com/andymort

Weed Killer (Ambient Reimagining)

Andy Mort | Music 2023-08-18 | Part of my series re-imagining songs from my back catalogue as ambient instrumentals.

Used in Episode 32 of The Gentle Rebel Podcast (Coming Home Through Music) - andymort.com/32-home-through-music

From The Final Scene, which was originally released in 2005.

I talk about Weed Killer on Patreon as part of my Growth Without Grimace series.

I share the backstory and some of the decisions that informed what it became. I also found some of the original "writings" (poems and thoughts) that accompanied the creative process. Definitely a challenge not to grimace too much!

Join me over on Patreon and help fund the album: patreon.com/andymort

The Space Between Us (Ambient Instrumental Experiment)

Andy Mort | Music 2023-07-25 | I composed this piece to go with an episode of The Gentle Rebel Podcast (The Space Between Us). I wanted to explore the idea of holding and trusting rather than closing down and possessing the spaces around and between us.

I spoke with Brigid Russell about what space means to her and in particular the power of creating spaces for listening. To one another, to the world, to the music that patiently sits in the cracks, folds, and creases around us.

The video shows a wall in one of my favourite homes. Stripped and bearing its soul. Between the brick and whatever fresh coating will follow. There are stories here. Questions. Ponderings. Fragments of images. Waiting to be played with, pieced together, and integrated into the next chapter.

#HomeIsNo(w)here

“If we are going to understand and appreciate each other’s differences, then we need to be able to trust the space between us.” - Charlie Jones & Brigid Russell (From Trust in the Spaces Between Us)

andymort.com/30-space-between-us

Atlum Schema | Live in Harbour Lights [Full]

Andy Mort | Music 2023-06-13 | On the morning of Saturday June 13th 2009, we borrowed one of the screens at Harbour Lights Picturehouse Cinema in Southampton and we performed the Atlum Schema LP for the first (and only) time. The album was officially released the next day.

The screen wasn't showing any films until early afternoon, so we had a few hours to load in, set up, perform/film, pack down, and get out. It remains one of the most stressful and beautiful live music experiences of my life.

Huge thanks to all involved. I'm still not sure how we managed to do it. I think a lot of strings were being pulled behind my back to make sure it worked.

The band was Andy Mort, Ben Munday, Jono Munday, Jon Mort, Kat Hattersley, Luke Roberts, Jevon Snell, Andy Rowley.

Set List
00:00 Closing The Doors
04:40 Hold On
08:26 Ballad of The Self-Blessed, Self-Less
13:35 I Can
17:19 To The Skylight
21:08 Gunfight at the OK Corral
24:40 Feeling About For Conformity in the Dark
29:27 Ink Star
34:30 Warning Light
39:08 Breathe
44:41 Opening The Doors

Stream The Album
Bandcamp: andymort.bandcamp.com/album/atlum-schema
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/10dJuk7F6Mrb8Glxj4VQad?si=36kAb27eSDiDmsYPCcH9fw
Apple Music: music.apple.com/gb/album/atlum-schema/320708609
Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/andymort/sets/atlum-schema

The Mould Will Slowly Burn (Ambient Reimagining)

Andy Mort | Music 2023-03-31 | Part of my series re-imagining songs from my back catalogue as ambient instrumentals.

This was the opening track from my very first album, The Final Scene, which was originally released in 2005.

I talk about The Mould Will Slowly Burn on Patreon as part of my Growth Without Grimace series.

I share the backstory and some of the decisions that informed what it became. I also found some of the original "writings" (poems and thoughts) that accompanied the creative process. Definitely a challenge not to grimace too much!

Join me over on Patreon and help fund the next album: patreon.com/andymort
Listen to the original: andymort.bandcamp.com/track/the-mould-will-slowly-burn (it's available wherever you stream music)
The stunning Ice Photos were taken by Tuula Ahde: instagram.com/tuulahde

The Obfuscation (Ambient Reimagining)

Andy Mort | Music 2023-02-28 | Revisiting ideas from a long time ago.

I'm going to share the original song and chat about writing it on Patreon as part of my Growth Without Grimace series. Join me over there: patreon.com/andymort

Part of my series re-imagining songs from my back catalogue as ambient instrumentals.

The Obfuscation was the opening track from The Woodbine EP (20 years ago) by my old band, Aphron.

I share the original and talk about what went into those songs as part of my Growth Without Grimace series on Patreon.

Join me over on Patreon and help fund the next album: patreon.com/andymort

What Were You Thinking? (Ambient Instrumental Experiment)

Andy Mort | Music 2023-02-03 | Thanks to Tuula for the AI images, which seem to perfectly capture the eerie emptiness that sits in the gap between worlds, between selves, between here and there. There is something about the emotional void. Faces without soul (structure and desire). Like they are censored - not from speaking, but from feeling, from understanding the purpose. Shut away from the world.

The TV show, Severance may have been subtly influencing this.

I wrote this music after speaking with Chris Niebauer on my podcast about left brain/right brain thinking: andymort.com/21-what-were-you-thinking

The Constant Self (Ambient Instrumental Experiment)

Andy Mort | Music 2023-01-25 | Some reflections: andymort.com/constant-self

People often talk about ‘finding your true self’. But that’s a project of language and structured thought. It can lead us in circles.

Likewise, you don’t find music’s “truth” or essence by talking about, analysing, and deconstructing it. If you strip it for parts, you might be able to reverse engineer the component aspects, but you won’t find its essence. By the time you finish, there will be nothing left.

And perhaps that’s part of the point. What makes us who we are and not someone else, what makes a piece of music, not another piece, is in the betweenness, the spaces, the emptiness around the edges.

I built the music on a series of loops (all different lengths), which dance and weave over the seventeen minutes. The sound changes and new ideas bleed in and out, but there’s a constant underpinning. A sea of sound that absorbs and reflects the dance as it hits the surface.

Fragments of Recall (ambient instrumental experiment)

Andy Mort | Music 2022-12-18 | I've been getting my head around some new equipment this week. I found this tune emerging through my fingers as I tested and experimented with a Behringer FCB1010, Mainstage, and some Spitfire Audio sounds. The main motifs wouldn't leave me alone all week!

I edited the original recording from 13 minutes. I hope you enjoy it. Watch the original version here: youtu.be/AxNnNhSceFg

Tin Soldier | Live in The Lounge

Andy Mort | Music 2022-10-28 | A live stripped-back version of Tin Soldier.

Listen to the full version: andymort.com/music/tin-soldier

Sleep It Off | Live in The Lounge

Andy Mort | Music 2022-10-11 | A live stripped-back version of my first single, Sleep it Off.

Listen to the full version: andymort.com/music/sleep-it-off

Andy Mort | Tin Soldier (Lyric Video)

Andy Mort | Music 2022-10-02 | Stream it on your favourite platform: andymort.com/tin-soldier

Video artwork by Tuula Ahde (instagram.com/tuulahde)
Released October 3, 2022
Written by Andy Mort
Electric Guitars, Analogue Synth, and Bass performed by Ben Munday
All other instruments and vocals performed by Andy Mort
Produced by Andy Mort
Mixed and executive produced by Matt Cotterill at 300 Acre Studios
Mastered by JP Braddock at FormationAudio

A Journey From The Cradle To The Stave (Sleep It Off)

Andy Mort | Music 2022-09-02 | I love finding the voice memos, demos and fragments that emerge during the creative process and development of a song. I have threaded together a journey through Sleep It Off - from the cradle to the stave...

It's so reassuring to see how far they come (and to recognise that where something starts is not where it ends up).

patreon.com/andymort

Andy Mort | Sleep it Off (Official Video)

Andy Mort | Music 2022-08-16 | The official video for "Sleep It Off" by Andy Mort.

Listen to it on your platform of choice: andymort.com/sleep-it-off
Song Written by Andy Mort
Electric Guitars and Bass performed by Ben Munday
Ethereal kaoss noises and analogue synths performed by Jono Munday
All other instruments and vocals performed by Andy Mort
Produced by Andy Mort
Mixed and executive produced by Matt Cotterill at 300 Acre Studios (instagram.com/mattcotterillproducer)
Mastered by JP Braddock at FormationAudio
Video artwork by Tuula Ahde (instagram.com/tuulahde)
Stunt driving on snowy Finnish roads by Timo Soikkeli, March 2022