In March 2022, we were in a cottage in the Cowal Peninsula, Scotland for a few days and for the first time, I had taken my guitar away with me on a holiday. This was on the very outset of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and there was no TV nor phone signals where we were staying.
Sitting in front of a log burner, I began playing and from that came some song ideas. I hadn't taken a notebook with me so I had to write down chord boxes and prospective titles on scraps of paper.
These were the first set of songs I had attempted to write after my eldest sister had passed away in December 2021. The lyrics that appeared were undoubedtly filled with a sense of grief, mortality, perceived chaos in the world around us all, but all written in a sense of isolation and detachment from all that seemed so far away from us, at least physically.
When I came home I began demoing some of these songs, created a cover and even a tracklisting. Then I started a new job as is so many times the case, I found myself devoid of time and energy to focus on the things I would rather be doing, and so the songs languished on a hard drive.
The other day I got an email reminder that my sister's birthday was coming up. With September being her birthday month, this was something that was already playing on my mind as the first of the month came around. Then, having seen the Taylor Hawkins tribute concert, and talking creativity with a friend, I found myself thinking of these songs, and so, here we are. These recordings were unfinished but this song had a full set of lyrics. The recording is scrappy, I go out of time, I just wish that I had the focus to finish these... but here it is, as it is.
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