Song a Week 2023 – Week 17: Will yourself a better future by thinking beautiful thoughts.
Author Archives: BJD
Mythau a Chwedlau
Song a Week 2023 – Week 16: Myths and legends is a cinematic electronic instrumental consisting three parts: 1. Ring of Fire 2. A Sword in Water 3. At the Rainbow Bridge. You can listen to the full suite or each part separately
Headlights and Heavy Trucks
Song a Week 2023 – Week 15: A folk song woven from different journeys and thoughts because life is one big long journey.
Bye, Bye Sailboat Dreams
Song a Week 2023 – Week 14: Borrowed Sally and alley from the English traditional song but otherwise this is a story of boats, broken relationSHIPS and loss.
Unmask the Dancer
Song a Week 2023 – Week 13: Challenged to write a song about ‘unmasked dancing’ I wrote a dance song about unmasking the dancer, a seductress who is not who she appears to be.
My Top 3 Songs by You Tube Plays
Who can predict what people prefer? These three songs have nothing in common but me.
The Liger That Stood There
Song a Week 2023 – Week 12: A liger is the off-spring of a male lion and female tiger. They grow to be the largest of the big cats. This is a song about self-esteem and achieving personal success.
Fall Out in a Japanese Garden
Song a Week 2023 – Week 11: A long song in five parts (including the reprise of part 1). The story of a relationship break up which rips our narrator away from a Japanese garden and into the darkness and despair of the city streets. WARNING: This is NOT a love song.
Never Trust a King
Song a Week 2023 – Week 10 We were challenged to write a song with the prompt “Oh no! It’s the Plantagenets”. So here is a history song. It’s a bit long but it is a full appraisal of the kings from Henry II to Richard II. A horrible history of the Plantagenets. I tried some orchestration on this one. Never trust a king…………
The Space Between Us
Song a Week 2023 – Week 9 :Having written a song a week for 100 weeks I am resting up this week and delivering a cover version of Little Lore’s song The Space Between Us. I have re-imagined it as a pop song. Tricia submitted this to SaW on Feb 5th.
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