Below? A collection of my newer, and some older, songs. Basically snippets and weird ideas. The intention is to get them here on this one WP blog to dip into and check out if some are workable or not. This morning was a case of simply picking up the guitar and just play and sing on one track. I then got a second vocal track up and running and simply ‘chuntered’ to myself and ad libbed a few accompanying noises. Albeit badly.

What you can’t hear is the background ideas of other little tunes and melodies that will be thrown in when I ‘faff’ around with listening to a ditty on the speaker monitors. Then it will get serious.

Basically, finish the songs like I have done with all the others last year.

In the mindset it is fairly routine now. Getting ideas down like this allows me to sit with the Apple keyboard and mouse, change output sound from headphones to the speaker monitors and play keyboard sounds over the top to get at additional vibes. Lyrics usually start to develop that way too.

Although. The way of it all currently is that my head is in a rubbish state ‘lyric’ wise. Life is oh so dull presently. And focus is in memory loss land. Yesterday, when I sat down writing ideas, I had the word ‘choose’ in amongst a lyric line. When beginning to write that word down, I actually couldn’t spell it at first! ‘Tuse?’ Touse?’……I kid you not!

It is rather weird and worrying currently. Vibrant thought has upped and gone for a while. So has short term memory. However. The song ‘Today’ here in the first audio bar below is beginning to see an avenue of lyrical repair. Little one line of lyric ideas are gradually taking shape. It will address my 70 years on this little old planet and how life has changed. A few lines are developing which may not make the song. However, rather like the song ‘18 years was 50 years ago’, it will hold quirky self feelings and emotions. In one of the samples below I actually call the song ‘18 years was 60 years ago’. Man! I need more therapeutic interventions. Get my mind back. Frail Autumn 🍁 leaf indeed. My neural shaped inner leaves are definitely falling from my Mind Tree.

I find that solace in singing nowadays is for therapeutic needs and is the only true focus now. Mindfulness is very much present in the form of simply being in the here and now. Rather like making a cup of tea and being aware of every part of making the beverage from start to finish. A song for keeping, that has been given its infancy, does bloom and develop into a whole new sound from its initial first steps. It can adopt a completely different vibrancy. However, at its core is the melody. Think of The Beatles songs that are covered by other artists. The way those other artists channel one of the songs into a totally personal style of presentation.

I have been listening to various artists performing Marc Bolan’s T.Rex songs. Some are so very far from the originals. Take away the melody and you can be hard pressed to identify the song. This album, Angelheaded Hipster, is a fascinating album that shows the many ways songs can be interpreted. And my gentle exploratory journeys in the songs below? Very much like a song interpretation on the album of Scenescof by Devendra Obi Banhart. Very gentle and soothing. Far from the original version. Songs? They are like children that await to find their own unique natures. And can change dramatically according to their times in life.

Anyways. These very much milder than they will sound when finished, exist in the audio bars below. These are about half of the newer songs/melodies/tunes currently in ‘ideas land’. The others in my experimental songbook I need to really refresh my memory on as to how they went.

And here below, as written about above, is the song ‘18 years was 60, oops!, I mean 50 years ago’.