I am 48 weeks deep in 52 week project in which I write, record and release a song each week for a year.
The realisation hit me just a couple of hours ago that I only have 4 more songs to create before I’ve completed the project.
Wow. I feel like I’ve only just started, like I’m barely half-way.
Here is a link to the entire playlist:
https://soundcloud.com/mysterioso/sets/song-a-week-for-a-year
I’ve been lax in showing off my current crop of ridiculous songs. Here’s the latest three, two of which appear to be part of a larger work.
Eyes Like Walls:
Their Plan for Us:
The Click and Rattle of the Abacus:
It’s been a while since I did much to publicise my work, but I’m here today to remedy that.
In the last nine weeks I’ve released nine more pieces of work, some of which I’ve pushed off into the world with those little shivers I only get when what I’ve created seems somehow more than the sum of its parts.
These are my current favourites:
And here is a playlist for the Great Song A Week For A Year Playlist so far:
My current project, a Song A Week For A Year number 24 – ‘That’s the Message’ on #SoundCloud
This piece started off inspired by Black Heart Procession, but then traveled through Gravenhurst and latter day Nick Cave.
Once again, it’s a bit dark. I started work on the lyrics before I’d completed all the instrumental parts and for once I had the time to come up with a text I’m happy with. The downside of this being that I ran out of time to work on the drum programming. Swings and roundabouts!
Becca Allen joined in on backing vocals and autoharp.
Here is the continuing playlist for the project so far:
Life continues with its own ruthless pace and the following is the latest fruit: https://soundcloud.com/mysterioso/cortege
And to follow on, here’s the complete corpus so far:
Rob Brezsny has this to say, directly to me:
A bottle of Chateau Cheval Blanc wine from 1947 sold for $304,000. Three bottles of Chateau Lafite-Rothschild 1869 went for $233,000 apiece. The mystique about aged wine provokes crazy behavior like that. But here’s a more mundane fact: Most wine deteriorates with age, and should be sold within a few years of being bottled. I’m thinking about these things as I meditate on your long-term future, Sagittarius. My guess is that your current labor of love will reach full maturity in the next 18 to 20 months. This will be a time to bring all your concentration and ingenuity to bear on making it as good as it can be. By September of 2017, you will have ripened it as much as it can be ripened.
And frankly, I like this. That I’ve finally begun writing music again seems to frame the above rather neatly.
I haven’t been the best at publicising so as a summary here’s a playlist of the project so far:
