Song a Week 2023 – Week 6: I was thinking about ‘Ghost Town’ by The Specials and also families that are bereaved through murder. I fused the two ideas. The repeating guitar riff and bass laid over the drum track built the foundation and the synth line the atmosphere.
Author Archives: BJD
Accelerate:
Accelerate: living in a dystopian utopia is a collection of my rock songs written and recorded during 2022 and January 2023. Mostly about bad stuff but curiously up-tempo (because bad stuff happens in a world which is getting better).
The Acceleration of Everything
Song a Week 2023 – Week 5: The title and theme of this song, ‘hurry sickness’, is borrowed from James Gleick’s book ‘Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything” with its proposition that in the technological world we are filling our days to a point that we have no time for basic human activities.
The Song of the Sea
Song a Week 2023 – Week 4: A tale of love and self-doubt. Recorded with Peter O’Hare on guitar, shared at a Talent is Timeless songwriter’s circle and performed at the Smile Bar and Venue Live Lounge all within three days.
A Country with No Name
Song a Week 2023 – Week 3: Something simple and bluesy this week. Performed live to camera. A perspective on attitudes to refugees. Song 95 of my 100 songs in 100 weeks challenge.
Talk
Song a Week 2023 – Week 2: Gone a bit Gary Numan this week. The song is about reckless political talk but the video sees this through the eyes of robots.
Begin Again
Song a Week 2023 – Week 1: This week experimenting with a new genre, a new midi keyboard and new music software.
The Last Song of the Year
Song a Week 2022 – Week 52: At the back of my mind was an image of an Ukrainian soldier leaving his loved one to return to the war but the song is more generally about seasonal renewal.
Hey Judas! (aka The Urban Alligator Song)
Song a Week 2022 – Week 51: A bit of nonsense or a commentary on the UK government in 2022? Oh! That was a bit of nonsense (and not funny). With Peter O’Hare on guitar.
Darkness and Dreams
Song a Week 2022 – Week 50: Woven from memory of bad childhood dreams and an impending sense of losing a loved one.
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