I was walking through the airport today. The sun shining through the windows brought on a kind of waking fever dream. When I came to I wrote this down on a piece of scratch paper that I dug out of my purse:
Leopard spots over my eyes.
Stare at the sun so, long that I go blind.
Until I feel your hand…
and we swing until we’re dizzy.
Leftover easter candy…
We suck and we’re sugar sick.
We ache and we’re longing until perhaps it’s now another day.
All homesick in the sunshine.
Those leopard spots turn to friends and our friends all have freckles.
We’re swinging.
We’re Laughing.
We’re holding hands…
and we never let go.
Do you think it’s a song? More importantly, it has me thinking about my next album. I have had a vague idea in the back of my head. But, if you read my last post you know that I am contemplating collaboration and community. Strangely enough, this is a running theme as of late. If you are a sixtyone user you know about all the turmoil on my (once) favorite music site. People are upset about the community aspect being (mostly) removed from the site. Music itself has become more of a community based thing. We tend to gather around artists who are speaking to us. Not just through their music but, through their words (videos, blogs etc). At least words that artists have written or spoken on a computer screen. The poem that I wrote is about a kind of community. But, it is a physical, tactile one. It’s all a bit jumbled at the moment but, I know that this is what my album is going to be about. An album about community wouldn’t be right without being collaborative. So, if you are reading this feel free to throw out suggestions. I have a couple of ideas but, would like to hear from you first! YOU FIRST! 
PS if I do this I am kind of throwing out a bunch of songs have written already!
February 2, 2010 at 7:53 pm |
I think you should do a song that’s accapella, or constructed entirely out of your voice. I don’t know if you’ve heard Bjork’s Medulla where all the “instruments” are manipulated vocal samples, but I think you have the versatile kind of voice, and creativity, to pull something like that off at least as well as she did.
Maybe in keeping with your “collaborative community” concept, you can even solicit vocal samples from others to add to the mix.
Whatever you do, I know it’ll be awesome, so trust the musical instincts that have carried you this far!
February 5, 2010 at 9:06 pm |
Oddly enough I have thinking of this. I don’t know if I want to do an entire song with just vocals but, I thought of making my voice the main element and letting that guide the rest of the track. I’ve done something like this in the past and I like how much more spontaneous it feels. I really like your idea about collecting samples. I may steal that one!