The Wenlock Group…
…began in 2020 as a band comprising a Mac Mini running Logic Pro, an old Korg SP-280 keyboard, and myself. In 2022, after completing work on the second album, Mini retired. iMac stepped in to fill Mini’s role for a while, but now most of the heavy lifting is done by Mac the Laptop. And Korg retired too; her replacement is microKEY Korg, because, after all, almost all of our music now is just created with a trackpad.
The name derives from geology. According to Wikipedia (reluctantly quoting the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica), the Wenlock Group is “the middle series of strata in the Silurian (Upper Silurian) of Great Britain…in the Welsh border counties….”
The Wenlock Group’s output is entirely original, entirely instrumental (lyric-free!), and is never created, recorded, or performed in real time. And, furthermore, it’s essentially self-published, through Symphonic and Bandcamp. So, music of a lesser god. We’re fine with that.
The Wenlock Group’s releases to date were mastered by Justin Perkins at Mystery Room Mastering, Milwaukee, WI.
The entire Wenlock Group discography is available on Apple • YouTube • Amazon • Spotify • all the streaming and download vendors. Bandcamp offers better-than-CD-quality downloads (not MP3s). A physical CD of Solstice of Seven Decades is available.
Try the track excerpts below; M the L, mK Korg, and I thank you for taking a listen!
Discography
People of the Rose is a set of five extended, laid-back electronica instrumentals, bordering on chill-out. It’s available on Bandcamp and on streaming services starting July 3, 2025.
1 Another Easy Sky
2 Birthtide
3 A Cyclic Muse
4 Middle of Everywhere
5 People of the Rose
People of the Rose music, graphics and content ©2025 by Dixon J. Jones. Songs ©2024 by Dixon J. Jones. Songs registered with BMI, SoundExchange, and the US Copyright Office. Cover illustration: Sitka Mountain Ash, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington; National Park Service. Designed and produced by The Wenlock Group.
“The Next Last Journey (re-recorded)”, an extended-play single, is a programmatic cross-over jazz piano instrumental. The original version was digitally released on 7 July 2023. The re-recorded version was released on Bandcamp on 3 June 2025, and appeared on streaming services on 1 July 2025.
“The Next Last Journey” ©2021 by Dixon J. Jones. Registered with BMI, SoundExchange, and the US Copyright Office. Designed and produced by The Wenlock Group.
“Midnight Voyage of the Coracles”, an extended-play single, is a programmatic, Celtic New Age instrumental, digitally released on Bandcamp on 4 April 2023, and available everywhere on 9 June 2023.
“Midnight Voyage of the Coracles” ©2021 by Dixon J. Jones. Registered with BMI and the US Copyright Office. Designed and produced by The Wenlock Group.
Solstice of Seven Decades, unofficially subtitled “Music for Winter and Other Quiet Occasions”, was released on 10 November 2022.
(If you have a library card at the Iowa City Public Library, you can listen to this album for free here.)
Physical CDs are available. Send a message to inquire about getting one.
1 Change Lane (lush, slow, faux symphonic 32-bar melody)**
2 The Old Wood Carol (Celtic harp, tin whistle, accordion, bowed bass)***
3 In Memoriam (solo piano)**
4 Solstice of Seven Decades (lilting, slow, minimalist classical with piano and chamber orchestra)***
5 Someday II: Reconciliation (half-speed introspective ballad)**
6 Sun Path Rising (another slow ballad, but with gentle, upbeat percussion)***
7 A Walk in Midwinter (an orchestral fanfare re-imagined as a magical space piano meditation)*
Solstice of Seven Decades music, graphics and content ©2022 by Dixon J. Jones. Songs *©2019, **©2020, ***©2021 by Dixon J. Jones. Songs registered with BMI, SoundExchange, and the US Copyright Office. Cover illustration contains the public domain image https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alaska_range.jpg by 1brownsfan. Designed and produced by The Wenlock Group.
Zettagramm is an eclectic anthology of original instrumental rock, retro pop, jazz, space piano, and chillout, with a faux classical organ fanfare thrown in. It was released on 15 September 2020. (Sorry, no physical CDs for this one.)
1 Someday I: Proclamation (cathedral organ fanfare)
2 Satsuma, P.I. (theme music for a non-existent TV cop show)
3 Los Mimados (Latin-influenced rock)
4 Geoff Aire (Retro Mix) (mid-1960s-ish pop)
5 Zettagramm (synth big band)
6 Sky Shelter (contemplative space piano)
7 Geoff Aire (Neo Mix) (remix of track 4, “live” from a Montreal club of indeterminate vintage)
8 Honeymoon (jazz piano trio +)
9 Brave Smile (chillout)
Zettagramm music, graphics and content ©2020 by Dixon J. Jones. Songs registered with BMI, SoundExchange, and the US Copyright Office. Graptolites photo, Spirograptus spiralis, Silúrico de Guadalajara, scanned by Luis Fernández García, 2006/07/04 (cc-by-sa-2.5-es), from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spirograptus_spiralis.jpg. Designed and produced by The Wenlock Group.
NOTE: As of 16 November 2023, I’ve removed most PDF content from this site…there have been too many downloads by non-humans, for what purposes we can only guess…
Updated 6 January 2026
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