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Creation knows when something devastatingly paradigm shattering is about to happen.
I’m learning to read the signs of the times.
This show is going to mess with my musical paradigm.
7 Days and counting.
Bring. It. On
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Creation knows when something devastatingly paradigm shattering is about to happen.
I’m learning to read the signs of the times.
This show is going to mess with my musical paradigm.
7 Days and counting.
Bring. It. On
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We will always remember.
We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.
Ronald Regan
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By Ben Giles
I love this about Music.
When it is created and then shared with pure motives, it is like the releasing of beautiful birds born to explore far flung skies, or the throwing of multicoloured confetti on that fateful, life altering day.
I love it when Music is expressed with the hope [not the expectation] of appreciation.
I love it when the releasing of a Sound gives wings to both the creator and the created.
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Surrealist painting ‘To Run With The Herd’ by Octavio Ocampo
Today I was thinking.
In the cacophony of different sounds and ideas floating around in musicdom, everything can kind of sound ‘same same but different’. As a musician you are often either imitating what you love or what you think works, or you are trying with all your might to go against the grain and be different. The thing is I haven’t found either mode of creativity particularly inspiring or fruitful.
What to do.
Truth is I do want to be innovative and break new ground musically, but when that’s my aim it all seems to get a bit weird.
Then I had a thought. (Not an original thought mind you. Loves me some irony.)
Just try to be me. Uniquely me. Writing lyrics that truly originate from my own thoughts and heart, creating melodies that spring from my own well.
Being impacted by outside influence is inevitable and I welcome it.
But creating that which honestly flows from ones own being is the way we will stand out if we so desire.
Because when it’s all said and done, there’s only one me.
And there’s only one you.
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These songs sound so close. Like William is singing and playing perched on a chair inside my head. I think it’s a mixture of the guitar and vocal melodies, the knowing, comfortable lyrics, the way his vocal has been recorded and the fact that I’m listening to this through headphones.
I like it.
Not many are allowed to sing inside my head. Fitzsimmons, you are most welcome.
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…despite the gathering round the fire.
I’m enjoying Lisa’s lilting warmth on this snowy afternoon in London.
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I’m definitely one of those people who can’t just smile it away.
My face tends to speak louder than my words.
Sometimes this is intentional. Sometimes it isn’t.
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