v'nosnu - tribute to primo levi |
I've been a fan of Primo Levi ever since my friend, Peter Flood, gave me one of his books some years ago, but never had read his novel If Not Now When until quite recently. When I had finished reading...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:00:00 GMT |
hermetic |
In my last blog I mentioned whip-poor-wills, a member of the Caprimulgidae family of birds. I think the Latin basis for that name is the inference that the birds suck the blood of goats. The song herm...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:56:00 GMT |
somewhere the sun is shining |
I was just listening to a couple of old demos and decided to put them up - I think Love on a Moving Platform has never maybe been up. I lose track and fall defeated in the street. I can tell because I...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:17:00 GMT |
cur raised |
I've always been pretty crap at promoting myself and have a tendency to take the piss out of myself instead, but recently I found that I had ended up writing something that could be described as a son...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:09:00 GMT |
ladorada |
And another new track from the last batch of home recording. Had to put it up because it's just been Golden Week in Japan. The last line's a bit morbid. Sometimes it just happens.
Posted by on Thu, 07 May 2009 17:39:00 GMT |
when did i become a sesame seed? |
in a recent blog which is entitled elizabeth and leicester but which does not tell much of that subject I wrote about 3 songs which I had recently written this being january of this year or thereabout...
Posted by on Tue, 05 May 2009 17:11:00 GMT |
reckless |
It's well over a year since the songs from disparue were recorded and it would be time to go into the studio again and record some more, but I'm not sure that it's quite the time yet, although that t...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:38:00 GMT |
Syd & Scott |
I was walking home the other night and the thought came to write a bit and do a new post and a couple of reposts on the subject of 2 of my musical heroes and inspirations, both who had kind of short b...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:07:00 GMT |
elizabeth and leicester |
Elizabeth and Leicester is a song. I've put it up as a new song. But I'm not going to write about it. Instead I'm going to write a little bit about my 3 most recent songs, which were written at the en...
Posted by on Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:53:00 GMT |
some dark blues |
Dark Blues is a song I wrote back in about 1983. I'd been reading Conrad's Lord Jim. Within minutes of finishing the book I picked up guitar and pen (probably the music was already in place - I'm not ...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:56:00 GMT |
