Author Archives: BJD

Song a Week 2022 – Week 7: An instrumental with piano starring as the kaleidoscope and guitar/synths as the dreams.

Song a Week 2022 – Week 6: Work this one out – the secret is in the rhyme and there are clues everywhere. Easy unless you die dancing first!

Song a Week 2022 – Week 5: Afterthought is that voice in the head that sows self-doubt and drives bad decisions. Created by our past experience it lurks in the sub-conscious like and echo. All our thoughts are passed through this emotive filter, shaping our reaction to events in our present and creating our personal reality.

Song a Week 2022 – Week 4: Inspired by a news item reporting that the super rich just got richer during the crisis of the Covid pandemic and song of the week prompt ‘We Win’, I got to thinking about all the ways wealth gets concentrated.

Song a Week 2022 – Week 3: If you watch and listen enough you will dig up the dirt. Responding to a song prompt of ‘Standing in a Doorway’ and an observation on Boris Johnson, by a member of his own party , “Boris just says what he needs to say, to get him through the day.”

Song a Week 2022 – Week 2: Three interwoven ideas: a story discovered from bones uncovered by an archaeologist; a man resurrected by by new found love and the relationship between a father and daughter.

Song a Week 2022 – Week 1: A break up song for the new year.

Song a Week 2021: Disrupted travel, coming back from where I’ve been.

Song a Week 2021: Week 52 I am intrigued by the space between history and myth. This piece consists of four songs (and a reprise) that explore the Great North Road in the UK. The road has meandered its way north between London and Edinburgh since before Roman times. Like a river it has taken different routes and has more recently been tamed by modern road building.

Song a Week 2021: Week 50 I have been reading The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre and this song has been inspired by that book.