Jude Adams - writer

The concept for a double whammy of an album and a book for The Window to My Soul was inspired by the rediscovery of a gift given to me as a child- a prototype boxset of Alice in Wonderland including a book and 4 LP's. I decided I would like to expand my own creativity using music, written word and visuals creating something too of substance but beauty. I chose to write a memoir as personal stories have always fascinated me. A “memoir of sorts” was what I chose to call my own story because of the structure and layout I wanted to follow.

Rather than a standard linear narrative, The Window to My Soul, floats across my lifetime, stopping to dive into episodes that shaped me. It covers the breadth of life experience through a deliberate mash up of mediums – poetry, illustrations and written word allowing the reader to dip into different episodes and engage in different moods and reflections, all of which are underpinned by consistent themes of home and travel; of relationships longstanding and fleeting; of refresh and rediscovery.

Having come up with the idea for the double whammy in 2017 I started to write the album and the book in early 2018 completing the whole project in April 2019.