Hi, I'm Glen Spoors! I write and record music under my own name, but publish it under the Korelai Music brand of Lost Isle Media.

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I grew up in suburban Perth, Western Australia, and my music has largely been an expression of the desire to escape it. I learnt to play guitar around the age of 14 with a now lost nylon string guitar and eventually followed up with a steel string Blue Ridge acoustic - about 99% of the songs on this site were composed with those instruments. My most prolifiic period was between 1988-1994, during which I wrote 14 albums, with another major period around 2005, during which I wrote another six. My earliest recordings were on some random portable stereo, then about 60% were recorded on a Tascam 4-trak, with much bouncing down of tracks, and from 2003 the rest of my material was recorded on an MBox with Pro Tools, although I also kept track of new material on a Samsung Android Galaxy.

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If I had to classify my music it would range between urban folk and indie rock with a strong emphasis on storytelling, with occasional eclectic and experimental excursions. I listened to artists like Paul Simon, Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, Steeleye Span, Jethro Tull et al around the time I was learning guitar, but I can't say my style shows much inspiration from them or anyone else. I picked a gestalt or theme and expressed it best I could through the instruments available, so mostly was inspired by technical qualities of instruments and a general literacy of scales and progressions from ambient listening.

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I now play a steel string cutaway Furst, a sunburst Squier Fender Stratocaster, and a cheap Monteray bass. I own a Peavey KB300 with a GT-3 effects bank and  Boss DR-5 drum machine but use them sparingly. I also have a small collection of ethnic et al instruments, i.e. a Kalimba, bongos, guiros, djembe, African wrist seed rattle, maraccas, pan flute, tin whistles, recorders, bird whistles, miniature gong and Nepalese singing bowl. ​(I have no talent at any of these, I just like the potential to improvise unusual sounds.) In 2016 I updated to an MBox 3 with Pro Tools, Battery, Reason. 

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I'm in the unusual position of being someone who has written 22 albums (one a trilogy) but simply recorded demos and moved on, periodically returning to re-arrange a song or two or amend a few lyrics. Currently my albums are recorded on a mix of home stereo, 4-trak and MBox - and some simply on mobile phone - and of obviously varying quality, so I'll have to slowly release them as I re-record them. 

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Draggle Glade is available as well as Garden  minus a couple of songs, though there also are a couple of songs I need to re-record on them. I have demos of the other albums, and will activate pages with a few demos I'm ok with before I start going through and re-recording my catalogue.

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I've stashed all my juvenilia or discarded tracks (which were too weak, repetitive or derivative to fit on the above albums), in placeholder albums: The Untrained Eye (early juvenilia/remainders), Driftwood Cove (later remainders), and A Deck of Fools (some lighter songs and unused figures and fragments). I also have made a start at a lo-fi cover album of mostly 60s/70s songs that were influential, I liked, or suited my style, called Ungainly Plover. I'm uncertain if I'll ever be indifferent or shameless enough to release them.

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As for new music, I've mostly just been recording fragments but have a list of song names for a 12-track mixed media album called Parliament of Joy. I have no timeline for that, but it's intended to include more electronic compositions and either round out Cycle 6 or start a new Cycle.

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I hope you enjoy some of my music! Let me know if you have any issues or queries  at korelaimusic@gmail.com