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Angel. (With a little added background vocal).

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Sepia. The Summers’ Angel.

Added a little of extra background vocal last night. Then tweaked the sound a little this morning.

‘Brighter Gray? Yet still with that commitment to my current self emotion?’

‘Oh yes …… definitely’ I mutter to myself.

Always believe you have a self song in your own heart. We all have. And whilst it initially exists in your heart, by the laws of musical notation and harmonic therapy, it will always continue to travel deeper still …..and right into your soul.

Angel . Brighter .

10 thoughts on “Angel. (With a little added background vocal).”

    1. Thank you Destiny. This morning it was nice to sit and write the hopeful lyrics to The Sun Goes Down. The one with Sun and Moon lyrics. When I say hopeful, what tends to happen is that words or phrases sound wrong when the melody and synergy of total sound is involved. Words drop out, are added, others are stronger when sung so changed to suit, more rhythmic, etc. Don’t always get it right when the song is finished either. But I am no poet really. So cannot really stretch my knowledge with words linguistically. And have no vibrant experiences in life presently to draw upon. So have to watch I do not get too mundane.

      As a poet, you know this procedure of finding rhythm in words extremely well when writing your poetry. And you have a large poetic library of descriptive words to access in your mind too.

      This Angel song is just something that will hopefully suit a YouTube video storyline. It was also a short emotional reflection in how I feel presently. Songs are now simply a therapeutic energy to be embraced.

      Thank you for the ‘lovely’ comment. I wanted it to remain gentle.

      All the best Destiny. 🙏🏽🍁🍂

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      1. the way you say/sing it…the words – are meaningful in the most genuine way, Gray … it suits the you we know here .

        Lol, thankfully…🙃 … when i find myself lost for words to express what i feel – or simply to capture a moment or experience – inspiration comes from the blogs here, including yours…thank you for this.

        All the best your way too, Gray…🤍🍂🙏

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      2. Lyrics have always been strange over the decades Destiny. Looking back on the 1970/early80s, there are lyric scenarios that were obvious links to situations back then. Older now, and a more fragmented approach is evident. Mainly reflections now as opposed to dreams of how you saw the future or the days at that time.

        Your inspirations are well founded in your own thoughts and experiences Destiny. As one of my lyrics goes. ‘There are flowers on flowers, flowers on flowers, blooming inside your mind’. That is how we are as artists Destiny. Ideas from here? The seed may be planted, but you are the one that achieves ongoing full bloom.

        All the best Destiny. 🙏🏽🍁🍂

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    1. Cheers Sheila.

      Currently getting to grips with new songs. When those words about ‘Every time I write a song, etc. ‘ arrived in my brain, it was a case of just getting the idea down on the spot, because it made sense. I was sitting with the Mac set up and sorting out to record from anew. After getting the tuning done on screen, I strummed the guitar and the song just happened. As said. Made up on the spot. The very simplest of my melodies come like this. The little instrumental stuff is born from my lack of skilful keyboard playing. So they tend to be ‘found’ through lots of little mistakes when hitting wrong notes that suddenly seem to fit. White keys on a piano board? Their uniformity is like lots of little identical ducks in a row and that scrambles my brain cells. Placement of finger issues is crazily inept. Add in the uniformity of the black keys too and that adds lots more confusion. Also. A synergy of different melody layers that, fingers crossed, aren’t clashing through my mishearing notes interacting is always a conundrum too.

      John, my drumming buddy, was speaking about certain famous songs having instruments out of key, which actually create a certain unique sound. I believe our brains create an acceptance to certain musical challenge. Muscle memory adaptations. Like when punk music arrived.
      Well. Any music that rocks the boat really. From Elvis and onwards.

      So this song became a very simple, naive/innocent presentation. Insecure, but charming in a certain way. And I like these little short songs for possible YouTube inclusions for future themes. Weave them into video storylines. 🙏🏽🍁🍂

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    1. To be honest Sheila, his whole Be More Kind album is a brilliant album. Lots of the lyrics are, as you say, very profound. And the tunes are so, so good. I am going to play it later. The songs are also very clear vocally.

      We have just looked after our grandson for three days, so no chance of listening to anything music wise really. He has just been picked up and he’s going mushroom and toadstool seeking with my son to learn about the varieties. I bought them the Collins book which is a brilliant information guide.

      I certainly have not done any recording over the last few days. Angie has gone for a visit with our daughter and two granddaughters for their usual hotel stay weekend away to have some shopping therapy. So, now I can relax and do some recording as she won’t be back until tomorrow.

      I love clapping in songs from time to time. Gives a certain vibe of enjoyment. 😊👏🏼

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