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.
Author Archives: BJD
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.
Renewal
Song Week 2024 #1: SFirst song of 2024. I am relaxing the song a week discipline but could not resist the idea that a new year means a new round of subscriptions coming up for renewal and corporate ownership is the theme here.
A Year
Song Week 2023 #52: Seasons. weather and relationships. 52 new songs and two remixes completed this year. This is the Christmas week song, deserving of a bit more love and attention, but time is tight during the festive period.
The Other Side of Midnight
Song Week 2023 #51: The Other Side of Midnight: inspired by Cinderella
