Biography

I am a songwriter based in London, I play guitar, keyboards and sometimes attempt to sing!
Influences include: Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, The Who, Pete Townshend, Stones, Lambchop, Serge Gainsbourg, Lee Hazlewood, The Go Betweens, Robert Forster, Grant McClennan, Tindersticks, Durutti Column, Richard Thompson, American Music Club, Magnetic Fields, Scott Walker, Destroyer, The Decemberists, Jimi Hendrix, Lou Reed, John Cale, Velvet Underground, Big Star, M Ward, Ed Kuepper

Other IComp bands:

Day For Night - A collaborative band project with Mystified, noirish ballads, blues and lonesome tone poems
http://www.icompositions.com/artists/DayForNight

All songs copyright Stephen J Lang 2006/2007

Music rss

Title Genre Released Plays
Stolen Dream Alternative Mar 20, 2010 63
Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime Alternative Feb 28, 2010 102
The Voyage Pop Feb 17, 2010 72
Every Chosen Party Alternative Jan 16, 2010 114
Electricity Alternative Dec 22, 2009 214
Beautiful Mistake Alternative Oct 10, 2009 240
Tell Me Something Folk Feb 10, 2009 444
Such A Shame Alternative Jan 25, 2009 205
If Words Don't Fail Me Now Alternative Jan 10, 2009 282
She Slips Away Alternative Nov 11, 2008 372
Feeling Lucky Alternative Nov 2, 2008 130
Delayer Rock Oct 26, 2008 208
Autumn Interlude Folk Oct 20, 2008 314
Commence to Landing Rock Sep 7, 2008 281
Hands full of Rain Blues Aug 29, 2008 188
If You Don't Know Blues Aug 19, 2008 249
Last Century Alternative Jul 27, 2008 205
It Ain't Easy Alternative Jul 7, 2008 211
Walking Wounded Alternative Jun 28, 2008 261
Every Dying Sun Alternative Jun 10, 2008 236
Story of the Blues Alternative Jun 1, 2008 403
Tell Fate That I am Busy Alternative May 25, 2008 356
Vanity Fair Alternative May 18, 2008 250
Waking Life Alternative May 11, 2008 349
Consequences Alternative Apr 27, 2008 197
Echo Sunday Rock Apr 20, 2008 293
Travelling Light Folk Apr 12, 2008 580
Call it friendo Alternative Mar 30, 2008 265
Not Welcome (in this heart anymore) Alternative Mar 25, 2008 369
Empty Stage Folk Mar 11, 2008 339
Feb'ry Blues Blues Feb 2, 2008 195
Babe its gonna be alright Folk Jan 27, 2008 207
Stolen Moments Alternative Jan 7, 2008 210
Voodoo Room Alternative Dec 30, 2007 379
Christmas Time is Near Holiday Dec 18, 2007 321
Loose Change Folk Nov 24, 2007 489
Guided Missile Alternative Nov 11, 2007 351
Double Dutch Alternative Nov 5, 2007 281
The Active Girls Folk Oct 29, 2007 715
Secret Smile Pop Oct 14, 2007 311
Hutchins Rock Oct 5, 2007 286
Lost To The Night Alternative Aug 4, 2007 385
Wrecked and Beautiful Alternative Jul 7, 2007 365
Feeling Loud Alternative Jul 5, 2007 554
Low Rent Heart Rock Jul 1, 2007 300
Summer's Coming - electric Alternative Jun 23, 2007 370
Summer's Coming - acoustic Folk Jun 23, 2007 405
Checking Out Folk May 19, 2007 430
Carol Folk Apr 22, 2007 674
Nothing Needed Saying Folk Feb 17, 2007 572
My Fate In Her Eyes (remix) Alternative Feb 11, 2007 402
Fridge magnetic north Alternative Feb 9, 2007 525
Moving On Folk Jan 13, 2007 752
The Sofa of Sound Setups Jan 1, 2007 446
Late December Interlude Ambient Dec 29, 2006 990
Angelina Folk Dec 3, 2006 857
Desolation Alternative Nov 19, 2006 622
Sleepwalking back to you Alternative Oct 16, 2006 981
In Plain View Ambient Oct 1, 2006 846
Keep rockin' me (baby blue) Rock Sep 15, 2006 1144
Autumn Leaves Alternative Sep 9, 2006 649
Feeling my way (remix) Blues Sep 3, 2006 595
Pirate's Lament Explicit Folk Aug 30, 2006 1257
Stars (Mysti space siren mix) Collab Alternative Aug 24, 2006 795
Country Feel (set me free) Alternative Aug 24, 2006 576
Traces of the truth Rock Aug 12, 2006 382
Wave Memories New Age Aug 10, 2006 594
Disengage (from the souls you distrust) - featuring Rebsie Fairholm Folk Jul 17, 2006 1076
Hollywood Folk Jul 14, 2006 384
Leap of Faith Alternative Jul 6, 2006 388
La-di-dah (remix) Collab Folk Jun 21, 2006 518
Pretty Sheeva (long edit) Alternative Jun 15, 2006 595
Fate in her eyes Alternative May 26, 2006 428
Spaghetti Junction Country May 21, 2006 477
How low can you go? Folk May 6, 2006 1148
Fade Away (Dreams aren't real) Alternative Apr 21, 2006 492
As long as it mattered Folk Apr 10, 2006 488
Don't say the word is now Folk Mar 20, 2006 491
You were the one Folk Mar 12, 2006 546
Absolution Rock Feb 25, 2006 497
Amnesiac's Reunion (demo) Folk Feb 25, 2006 516
DWTD Collab Electronica Feb 18, 2006 903
You can discover Folk Jan 27, 2006 505
The Drift Rock Jan 6, 2006 445
Deeper than blue Folk Dec 16, 2005 1803
Back to the Start Rock Dec 11, 2005 468
Same old story (remix) Folk Oct 27, 2005 621
Lil New Age Oct 22, 2005 462
The tide runs high Folk Oct 20, 2005 1380
A Hand In the Dark Folk Jun 12, 2005 1597

Collaborations

Title Genre Released Plays
everything merges with AN Other seamonster in the underpass (PD+Bud+stevel+rsorenson+Diviner+Bud) Other Aug 10, 2009 231
So What? Folk Nov 23, 2008 422
how low Country Sep 19, 2008 452
Lemon Grove Nights Folk Aug 12, 2008 432
Seize the Day (live at the coffeehouse) Folk Jun 19, 2008 670
The Hanging Tree Folk Apr 28, 2008 613
Regents Park Alternative Feb 5, 2008 898
The Desert Song Alternative Jan 22, 2008 764
Goodbye Ambient Jan 20, 2008 502
The Road Goes On Blues Oct 1, 2007 782
Lonesome Orphan Molly Folk Aug 27, 2007 668
Believe it to be seen Alternative Jul 15, 2007 525
Twilight Stories Alternative Jun 11, 2007 495
Flying High Alternative May 14, 2007 668
Hazy Feeling Alternative Apr 22, 2007 589
Dream With You Ambient Apr 17, 2007 979
Someone Somewhere Alternative Feb 25, 2007 938
One More Cup of Coffee (cover) Folk Jan 20, 2007 1284
Streets of your town (cover) Alternative Jan 6, 2007 1401
Hollywood Cinema Alternative Dec 31, 2006 837
3 a.m. Bar (A Perfect Stranger) Alternative Dec 17, 2006 947
I Saw A Woman Walking Folk Dec 9, 2006 896
Final Curtain Alternative Nov 26, 2006 740
If That's What It Takes Alternative Nov 12, 2006 953
The Silver Screen Alternative Nov 5, 2006 1195
Town at my heels Alternative Oct 29, 2006 1128
Day For Night Alternative Oct 11, 2006 1053
The Last Picture Show Alternative Oct 8, 2006 1085
Same Old Story Rock Jan 28, 2006 893
Fragments II (stevel collab) Alternative Oct 22, 2005 969

Favorites

Title Artist Genre Plays
Sadly Beautiful (Replacements cover) Dylan Alternative 244
Father Time Mystified Folk 240
the unfaithful servant ( the band cover ) calebrity Country 148
Fire (Jimi Hendrix Experience Cover) Tony2008 Rock 279
Spinning Away (Eno/Cale) sonic_magpie [+4] Alternative 328
Like a Rolling Stone + RC MikeRC [+1] Rock 374
As I Went Out One Morning Dylan Rock 361
How To Fight Loneliness Dylan Folk 540
Beat It (Michael Jackson Cover) artneuro [+1] Rock 1023
The Sun Is Rising In The West Dylan Folk 527
I Just Wasn't Made For These Times (Beach Boys Cover) Matthew1010 Rock 265
Ballad Of Easy Rider (Byrds cover) Dylan Folk 520
Do You Know Me ? Dylan [+2] Alternative 957
We Stand As One jkane [+1] Alternative 886
how low buckhorn [+1] Country 452
In Session @ The BBC (20th May 2005) zallaz [+2] Rock 436
more than one - x files mix sonic_magpie [+3] Other 522
Cat's Coffee Shop sonic_magpie [+2] Alternative 649
Blues On My Mind Dylan Folk 782
Hold On thenownows [+2] Pop 737
inchworm Mystified Ambient 602
Bonnie & Clyde Dylan [+2] Rock 2076
His SK1 particledots [+1] Ambient 463
Industrielle #2--Subterranean Mystified Ambient 408
in a darksome wood Mystified Ambient 505
Tonight I heard your bells LightspeedFutureLullaby Electronica 412
Mental Cowboy Dude (with a test card) sonic_magpie [+2] Other 776
Simple Twist Of Fate Dylan Folk 1221
Regents Park sonic_magpie [+3] Alternative 898
a passing cloud Mystified Classical 622
namio particledots Electronica 1184
Angel Mungo Ambient 530
The Sound and Shape of the Words sonic_magpie Ambient 601
Wonderful sonic_magpie [+3] Alternative 791
Birthday Waltz Mystified New Age 729
Time Traveler Ignoramus [+2] Rock 1277
Good Lighting Advocates for Starry Skies particledots [+1] Classical 593
INVEROSIMILE [© 2007] CharlyDeeCynthius [+1] Pop 1207
Crying particledots [+2] Electronica 807
Saxonburg Blues PowerMatt [+1] Country 1401
You Tore Me Down (Flamin Groovies) Dylan [+2] Rock 2290
Mt. St. Helens Mystified [+1] Alternative 662
Ophelia PowerMatt [+3] Country 1750
Hinterlands of Ashburn (video soundtrack) Mungo Other 513
The Summer Day Mystified [+3] Pop 741
The Game (final mix) RadioRebelde Alternative 506
In Another Life (Jayman Version) jayman [+2] Other 1509
Working Class Hero (Lennon Cover) RadioRebelde Alternative 426
Glowing Seams v2 PurePerversity Alternative 1072
The Minstrel Boy (soundtrack mix) Mystified Other 818
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