A continuation on the hailstones theme, written and recorded while camping in Marlo, which is a ridiculously gorgeous part of Victoria. I'm blaming the distraction of bird calls for my terrible attempt at bossa nova guitar. This one needs a little more practice.
Read MoreThis is Sunday's piece, and I had regained a little of my mojo for this one. I started with the theme clumsy from the previous day's piece, and did a three minute timed writing exercise. I then took all the nouns, verbs and adjectives from the result of that writing exercise and created word pairs with them. I used two of the pairs, "somewhere rain" and "another kitchen", as prompts for two additional three-minute writing exercises, and the results of those exercises led to this song. The day after I wrote this song it actually did rain in Melbourne, so I like to think I summoned the rain with my song.
Read MoreI considered leaving this to tomorrow morning to record, simply because I would have had more fun if I could crank my amp a bit. Once I start doing that, however, there's nothing stopping me from putting the writing off until the morning too, so I stuck to plan and recorded as quietly as I could.
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