Classically trained since the age of 3. I have spent the last 7 years in solitude writing, arranging, programming my first album myself from my home studio. As a result I am proudly independent but completely exhausted.
May 8 I left my home of Sydney, Australia to begin a genuine adventure. Am based in Amman, Jordan at the moment. Amazing city. So much life and music. The amount of talented artists in this gorgeous city just blows my mind.
I have a portable studio with me....I don't usually co-write but I'm craving it at the moment so if you have some kind of musicality and want to co-write feel free to drop me a line..******** ;)
Magdalene is a song about the insanity of religious fundamentalism and the manipulation of religious writings to satisfy the human ego. .................... This song is not anti-god or anti-religion necessarily. It is a cry to rid our species of all EXTREME belief that is dividing us. Those who use religion as a mask behind which to indulge their human weakness. I wrote it after watching the movie "The Magdalene Sisters" A film about elderly catholic nuns in jail-like convents who abused young girls who were abandoned by their families for "bringing shame to the family name". I.E falling pregnant before marriage or not subscribing to the morals of religion etc etc...These nuns were supposed to "reform" the girls but instead the girls became the target of the Nuns built up repression and distaste for all things "sinful" and were beaten, humiliated and abused for years or forever. The film is brilliant but horrifying.. In the first line of the song "Your Black and White deny the God in Colour" I am referring to the habit that nuns wear and this black and white clothing becomes a symbol of the simplicity of human religious interpretation throughout the song. These lines sum up the meaning of the entire song perfectly ie your black and white view of the world ....your simple and literal interpretation of the Bible or The Koran denies all the complexity of meaning in life, human character and the multitude of ways of being/percieving our reality. Colour representing free expression, sexual exploration, female empowerment, cross-religious love, re-marriage, alternative history, alternative archaeology, alternative origins theories, deductive reasoning, authoritative questioning, scientific progression, a willingness to explore the infinite possibilities of the universe and our place in it.....anything that might offend or oppose religious values that are traditional and limited. This line is also a plea to understand that if God does exist he would be in everything......in all the shades of colour, both ugly and beautiful and therefor what is considered "sinful" should be equally worshipped as it is just as much a "thing" in the world/mind that "God" apparently created.
