Inspiration

It’s all about the music these days it seems.

I was feeling rather uncreative a couple of weeks ago.  Here I have a freshly-built DAW, instruments, effects, and zero inspiration.

Feeling frustrated, I discussed this situation with Kevin Evans, who gave me a couple of lyrics to play with.  On the first set of lyrics, I wasn’t quick enough, and he had already gone to Ian Rushton with them.  These became The Corners Of Her Room.  I do play the flute on this piece, which appears about 2/3 into the tune…

The second set were lyrics called “She’ll Look To You,” which I interpreted to be about redemption thru procreation contrasted by the inevitable loss of innocence.  

I got inspired one day messing around with me redrum drum machine, programming minimalist patterns for atmosphere, when bing a light went on and it just seemed like it was the perfect setting for the words.

I quickly cooked up some equally minimalist chords,  sang a rather r&b vocal to the words, and sent that off to Kevin.  He came back with a vocal that was nothing like what I sent him, and his delivery just about knocked me off of my seat.  He captured a plaintive quality, and reflected the delicate nature of the subject matter.

After going back and forth on this for a week or so, we ended up enlisting Wim Koopman from Holland on saxophone, and Nick Crosby from New York State to play a guitar solo, which became a duet with himself…

The order of solos are myself on 1st guitar solo, Wim on sax, Nick on the duet with himself.

The song can be streamed if you click on the title.

She’ll Look To You

Lower the lights, take a breath, listen to the words…