Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
Songs are beginning to rumble on out of the piano I’ve gotten stashed in the living room. My daughter thinks I’m all kinds of famous, which is awesome for now.. perhaps a minor letdown when she realizes the shows I’m talking about doing this summer will not be at the Oakland Arena.
Here’s a clip of something I’m working on. Rough and new and recorded from my really fancy IPHONE MEMO RECORDER so, you know, don’t go “omg how beta”. The mix of vocals to piano is determined by how far away you’re sitting from the phone when you sing. Yeah.
I’ll need a drip
Swallow and a few good chords
Lamp light, late night
Of course I’ll need a big full moon
It’s been so long since I threw some new music up! Things have been feeling SO COLD lately. Frozen and unchanging. No art, no feeling, only numbness and exhaustion. Just absolute torment.
Then suddenly, I’ve got all this new stuff to listen to, the furniture has been rearranged and I’m feeling totally blessed, brave and fluid for the first time in years. Here’s what’s going on in my head and warming my toes; a soundtrack for an early thaw.
*can we talk about Foals? I am absolutely in love with them. I saw them at the GAMC last year and they were AMAZING. Total bliss.
* Feist has a new record out. It’s good. You should get it.
JUST as I finished writing that last post about being all down on California, my Pandora station randomly served up this song by Clevergirl, a former artist on my former label. And the song? The one about me. For real. About driving an open highway and drinking good coffee and having great friends and the freedom to just make decisions and roll with it. A certifiably West Coast sort of vibe.
Sigh. Makes me happy. Thanks, Clevergirl, for filling my ego bank with watermelon jolly ranchers, eyes with tears, and writing something as rad as “It’s summertime/ I’m on the road/ Fill the tank and feed my soul/ I dream of things/ You make them true”.
New song! Well, old but suddenly new and revised. I’m obsessed with singing it. Oh lordy, I just can’t stop.
Please pretend there’s a decent band to back this. Consistent drum beat to keep time, something I seem to completely lack capacity to produce for myself. Though that may have something to do with forgetting the chords. It’s ROUGH. Like sandpaper cat tongue walk through my neighborhood on the day before payday, but hey. It’s progress.
Enough. Basta. Check it out.
(download) Four Walls
(hosted) Four Walls
I am working on how to actually embed this and not be all beta fish in the blogger seas. But here’s a little teaser solo rehearsal listen-in from the spring. This one is done and begging for a cello and a public unveiling. Do you play the cello?
This is either a sad moonless night
Or a reason to believe that something isn’t right
Dark scribbling under a nice lamp won’t heal all wounds
But it won’t hurt either