Song Week 2024 – Week 22: SIn 2021 I was challenged through the Song a Week group to write a song based on the prompt ‘famous last words’. I chose Issac Newton’s and wrote a lyric which is a mash up of phrases in those last words. By definition it is a song about dying but more importantly about acknowledging that our lives are too short to discover all there is to know. Performed with Peter May 2024.
Author Archives: BJD
A Lyrical Decline
Song Week 2024 – Week 17: Song lyrics really are becoming simpler and more repetitive, according to a study published on 28/03/24. Lyrics have also become angrier and more self-obsessed over the last 40 years.
Exactly Nowhere
Song Week 2024 – Week 14: A grungy bit of pop rock about separation and inertia.
A Summer Romance
Song Week 2024 – Week 12: A mythical, romantic summer in ancient Greece but all the while the ‘life to be lived’ lurks outside the moment.
The Rack and Ruin Groove
Song Week 2024 – Week 8: How to spend Friday – just create a gentle groove and overlay with voice and different instruments. A gentle crescendo about the dark side of life.
Reliance
Song Week 2024 Week 7: A song partly influenced by the film ‘Maestro’ but generally about relying on someone who cannot or will not give in a challenging relationship.
Photographs
Song Week 2024 #6: No new song again this week. Instead a live a live version of my song ‘Photographs’ Played by Peter (guitar) and myself (voice and keyboard). Performed at the Smile Bar – Live Lounge this is an acoustic version of the second song that I ever wrote for SaW back in 2021.
New Music on Audiomack
I have just released some of my 2023 and early 2024 music on Audiomack arranged as two albums and an instrumental EP. You can listen via the Audiomack page on this site. A Country With No Name is darker a mix of folk and alternative rock Dancing Anna is a more pop and rock collectionContinue reading “New Music on Audiomack”
Frenetic
Song Week 2024 #1: I am not writing a song a week in 2024 but this alternative rock tune about our dependence on electricity lands in week 4.
Now and Then
Song Week 2024 #2: No new song this week. Instead a live cover of The Beatles ‘Now and Then’. Played by Graeme (drums), Jacob (bass), Peter (guitar) and myself (voice and keyboard). Performed at the Smile Bar – Live Lounge we had never played this together before.
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