Song a Week 2022 – Week 47: A song about warmongers and powerful people who forget to be human.
Author Archives: BJD
Somewhere in Idaho
Song a Week 2022 – Week 46: Writing to the prompt from the Song a Week group, a song about Idaho. A place I have never been, but hey, Wikipedia is a mine of information.
Ladder to the Moon
Song a Week 2022 – Week 45: Part children’s story, part commentary on ambition and risk.
Circle of Hands
Song a Week 2022 – Week 44: I experimented with lyric writing here. Firstly, I generated a series of images using an AI service which translates a random set of phrases into pictures. I then selected some of those images and wrote the lyrics from the image. These feature in the video.
Don’t Break My Heart
Song a Week 2022 – Week 43: A kind of 1980s pop rock groove, to this song about the bleak landscape of a broken relationship and the lover’s return.
Two Instrumentals
Song a Week 2022 – Week 42: No words this week. Make of these what you will. 1. Headlines and Footnotes 2. Doodle for Two Fake Guitars
Too Soon
Song a Week 2022 – Week 41: The climate clock is ticking. Time will not wait for us.
Vultures
Song a Week 2022 – Week 40: Democracy was hard won and there are those who would yet steal it away. A labour of love in both the recording of this rock song and the video production.
The Eve of Battle
Song a Week 2022 – Week 39: Another song about war – driven by events in Ukraine but not specifically about that.
Stream my albums on Audiomack
You can now stream my albums on the Audiomack platform. More to come in early 2023 when I build new albums from my 2022 song catalogue. Still on YouTube. Just search for me.