I present a new song for your listening experience.
I'm slowly building an album of lyrical songs. I kind of gave up on the traditional song form a few years ago, but I guess I've caught the bug again. Writing this kind of music is a much more difficult task for me than the instrumental music that has been my focus of late. Lyrics have a way of restraining the ethereal by ways of description. While words have their own innate musicality, they also have a weighted nature. They are wrapped in meaning, sometimes layers of shifting meaning. They can be hard to work alongside.
Then comes the issue of singing. I'm not a great singer. I don't think that every musical front person should be a good singer. Sinatra's voice in front of the music of Highway 61 Revisited to throw darts at two bullseye only targets. Interestingly, Bob Dylan released Shadows in The Night in 2015, his version of songs made famous by Frank. I'll leave it to the reader to decide whether the inverse is less than or greater than the imagined Highway 61. So, yes, I'm not a great singer, but I'm getting better by pushing myself out of my comfort zone and there is no better way to gain an intimate relationship with intervals than to awkwardly sing them.
My goal is to record around an hour of music for this project. I have been working some side jobs to make ends meet lately and it has been fairly distracting and physically exhausting. I realize this is the golden path of the struggling musician, but I'm thinking about using the digital busking site Patreon to give myself a little bit of freedom. I guess busking is not a great analogy. The platform is more like, 'someone puts a dollar in your hat and after you are done singing you take the passerby aside and give them a drawing you made.' The typical Patreon site has tiers in which the more you give the more you get. I'm not sure I'm into this. I have to give it some thought. My gut reaction is to give everyone the same party gifts regardless of whether someone was able to purchase a more expensive gift. Maybe there is a platform that works this way? I don't know. Of course, finding patrons is its own challenge. I do not possess the gift of 'networking.'
...something to chew on.
click on the styrofoam tooth at the top of the post to hear the song.
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