A local musician is creating a new album in tribute to a friend who died shortly before the collaboration began.

Richard Castle, 34, from Norwich, has spent the last three years working on the project, which he began with poet Philip Sayer.

Mr Castle said: “Phil and I had known each other and been close friends for around 15 years when he asked me to collaborate with him on making an album for a collection of poems he’d written.

“I thought that it could be something very special and super interesting given that the poems held a common theme stylistically and thematically - one of addiction and recovery, which had been the context from which the poems had been written by Phil.

"They literally mirrored his own experiences.”

“I've done all I can by myself.

"I am no sound engineer and in order to finish and do justice to our work, I need some help so that I can pay for these last parts to be executed by an excellent recording and mixing artist.”