Song Week 2023 #44 A simple short song, in which a parent talks to their child about the imminent death of their own parent (Grandma).
Author Archives: BJD
The Lost Summer of Love
Song Week 2023 #42: Song a Week composition that is about this week. Replace ‘amplify’ with ‘escalate’ and it all makes sense. This is just a way of processing horror but I have not got beyond despair.
Amplification
Song Week 2023 #42: Song a Week composition that is about this week. Replace ‘amplify’ with ‘escalate’ and it all makes sense. This is just a way of processing horror but I have not got beyond despair.
Fireflies with Afterburn
Song Week 2023 #41: Few words to describe this one. I had the idea of fireflies being fitted with afterburners. Hence their tails glowing like jet engines. Rock instrumental.
Announcing the Release of “Talk”
I am proud to announce the release of an album which includes some of the songs that I have written during 2023. All the songs are written and performed by myself but I must credit Peter O’Hare for his guitar contribution on ‘Macca’. If you like it please share. Listen here:
In the Afterglow
Song Week 2023 #40: A collaboration with Andy Harding, so guitar led, with a folk/singer-songwriter style. A song about time, space, journeys and sky. Pausing a while to take it all in.
The Angel Number
Song Week 2023 #39: A bit of ‘sceptic grunge’ about numerology nonsense. People trying to make order out of chaos.
Homeland
Song Week 2023 #38: A fairly raw performance of this week’s song. It’s about belonging to the place we live – our homeland.
Ropes and Carabiners
Song Week 2023 #37: A song about climbers and climbing. I have climbed but climbing is not an activity I enjoyed, so in this song I am the observer on the ground ‘rigid with vertigo’.
Dancing Anna
Song Week 2023 #36: A bit of experimentation with PopBossa.
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