When photography can’t express the things you need it to, I turn to music.

Kia ora curious internet traveller.

I have been a musician for as long as I have been interested in photography, and that started when I was around ten years old. My mother gave me a Kodak Retina camera (without any film) and my father gave my brother Paul and I guitars. I still have mine, though I regrettably left my brother's at a bus stop after school one day. Paul went on without his first guitar, to start iconic 1980s indie band Pop Mechanix and after I had a brief stint as a guitarist with Jordan Luck's soon to be Dance Exponents I left Aotearoa, followed my heart and travelled to the UK to study photography.

On the 1st of August 2025, I decided to see what would happen if I told stories with music. Not abstract soundscapes but actual songs. I drew on a career of observational and lived experience — photographs I've taken, stories I've been told, and things I remember or have experienced. A musical landscape emerged and after months of writing and recording, the songs began to appear. The process, I think — though I don't fully understand why — is very similar to working in the field as a photographer, circling around a subject, refining and adjusting your view until the story or song makes sense. The result is this: Air and Twigs - 8 songs drawn from life. Follow any of the links below to your favourite music platform or spend a moment and watch a video, look at the pictures check out the online store or pre order an album. Whatever you choose to do - Thanks for visiting and enjoy. Kieran.

Made entirely by humans for humans X.

All songs written and preformed by Kieran E Scott

Vocals on, The reason birds fly by Lucy Mackintosh

Backing vocals: Lucy Mackintosh, Willa Cameron, Michele Powles, Megan Beard, Lātū Harper

Drums and percussion by Steve Melville

Recorded at The garden studio, Ponsonby, Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa.

Engineered and mixed at Burning Boat, Perrysburg Ohio by Steve Melville.

Mastered at Studio 301 Sydney by Steve Smart

Album design by Greg Dodds, La Fábrica.

Special support from: Tam West.

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