Reciprocity Nexus

A guitar arpeggio-driven plea not to give-up, but rather "keep-on-keeping-on". A song of encouragement. Written for my daughter who at the time was going through some personal turmoil.

A guitar and violin driven folk-song on the theme of ecology, inspired by reading Kate Raworth's book "Doughnut Economics"

"Sins of the Father" is a mostly a-capella rumination of the cruelty of holding people in this life to ransom and thrall for the promise of something better (and eternal) in the hereafter.

Musically, it was inspired by J.S. Bach's…

"Borscht" is an acoustic guitar and violin driven hymn for the people of Ukraine and condemnation of Putin's illegal and appalling war waged upon them. Taking for its metaphor the national dish of beetroot soup, it is a prayer for…

A synth driven celebration of all things good in life. A list of favourite things. A love song to life.

This song is a commentary how people I know who claim to be something -- an actor; musician; photographer; musician; whatever -- whilst actually very rarely practicing their supposed craft. Typically, they will have an unrelated job. It's like it…

A Vince Clarke style 1980s synth driven love song to my wife, Juliet.

A rumination on an old lover who left you many moons ago, now telling you they may have made a mistake. But you have so moved on. Driven by harpsichord and whimsy.

A Blur-esque indie romp and parody through the lives of the likes of Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees-Mogg. A poppy study of extraordinary entitlement. How -- and more importantly, why -- the other half live the way they do!

Jangly guitar-driven love song to my wife, Juliet, whom I married somewhat later in life. For both of us, it is the "second time around"!

I'm super excited to announce the opening of the new album “The Sum of All Parts”. It's called "Is There Anybody Out There?" and is a Bowie-esque rumination on a phenomenon in physics and cosomology called the Fermi paradox. This…

Upbeat, guitar-driven, jangly, rocker and critique of a hypocrite.

A nine minute long, seven part-mini opera on the theme of kids.

Through-composed song in seven parts, none repeating, like a classical rhapsody, on the theme of kids; having them (or not); raising them. The song attempts to represent the…

A song written for an relative and friend strggling with alcoholism, encouraging them to try sobriety.

A 3/4 time classical waltz and love song to my late father, who grew up in the colonial era Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) and spent the rest f his life itinerant, trying to get back there. 

An upbeat, jangly, love song to my 22 year-old daughter, Anneka.

A Ennio Maccarone meets Talking Heads style love song to my wider family.

A song about being on the Autistic spectrum. People with autism or Asperger's Syndrome refer to non-spectrum folk as "Neurotypical".

People with autism are often charactarised by highly ritualised, even compulsive, behaviour, social awkwardness and very specific obsessions: modes of…

A eulogy and lament to people now passed and sorely missed; or those lost to dear ones whom I have never met.

A rare song about myself, actually...and my characteristic tendency to do EVERYTHING to the nth degree:  Whether it's eat, work, sleep, play. Everything is 110%. This means I usually get to January overweight and spend the latter part of the…

An upbeat love-song to my step-son, Henri, whom I am very close to, and who also sings on the track. I sing the first verse, chorus and middle eight (about him); he sings the second verse and chorus (about me).…

A piano driven torch song of empathy about being composite on the sexual continuum.

Words and voice: Hendrik "Henk" Kleinsmiede
Music: Siljan Panovski

"Trees" is a bit of an ecological song inspired partly by Richard Powers' novel "Overstory" which my son, Willem, recommended to me (and which I enjoyed reading very much), and partly by one of my cousins, Patick Rollet, who has…

Much like the novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez which inspired the title of the song ("Love in the Time of Cholera"), "Love in a time of Contagion" examines the apparent paradox of love during the Corona-virus/COVID-19 pandemic of 2020/21: on…