Acoustic Live Looping Performance
Acoustic cover from one of my favorite Bonnie Prince Billy records, Master and Everyone. Support DK on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NakedSongwriter * Working on my Ableton Live looper set-up.
Category: Music
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Embracing Limits
A couple of my favorite producer-teachers have been advocating the use of self-imposed limitations as a way of getting more work completed. It’s a ‘creative hack’ I’ve been ruminating about for a while. Cognitively, I get it – find it attractive, even. But emotionally?
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Seedings ii: Live looping guitar
I really like this one, not because it’s perfect – but because it came from a moment of being absolutely in the moment, with full permission to experiment and make mistakes. Continue reading
Songs I Like: I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever)
Artist: Stevie Wonder
Album: Talking Book
If you want to follow along:
Got to thank Lauren, my girlfriend-for-a-minute from Detroit many years ago, for turning me on to this one. Lauren taught me a lot in a short amount of time. She took me to my very first sweat lodge. And told me, in a 7-Eleven parking lot on the way home, “You’re a blamer.” God, I was so mad at her in that moment. But it didn’t take long to realize she was right. (Usually when I’m really angry about an accusation that has been thrown at me, it’s because there’s a grain of truth underneath the other person’s hurt or anger that my ego doesn’t want to have to acknowledge.) Continue reading
We Believe (The Whale Song)
This is part of the soundtrack to a film in my head about an epic undersea journey. The film is very Pisces. There are mermaids. We can communicate telepathically with the dolphins and whales…
Ten Year Bender – The Song
‘Ten Year Bender’: Lyrics, Stories, In the Studio
Backstory | Lyrics | Recording | Listen on YouTube and SoundCloud
Song: Ten Year Bender
Album: Ten Year Bender
This song is the title track from the 2015 re-release of Ten Year Bender by my rock project Stand & Deliver. I don’t remember the exact day when I wrote the song Ten Year Bender, but Continue reading
The Detroit Years 1: Guided by Dreams
Between the Dream and the Reality: 9/11, Uranus conjunct Sun, spiritus contra spiritum
On this roller coaster ride
that my emotions have to take me on
– Neil Young, ‘Natural Beauty’
That first line from the last song on Harvest Moon always gets me. Sometimes my life seems like one epic emotional roller coaster ride. We’re trained by society to believe in control as a positive attribute. Continue reading
[New Song] Short Acoustic Guitar Meditation
Acoustic Guitar Meditation on Four Strings
I sat down to play the guitar for a few minutes to get my energy flowing before recording my October 2015 Audio Horoscopes. I didn’t feel like “playing a song” but making music always opens up my creativity chakra so I just started picking. No destination in mind, no chord progression, just feeling the vibrations of my fingers on the strings and listening to the sounds in the air of my room at night. Continue reading
Ten Year Bender (Album): Down and Out in Paris, France
In 1997 I was living in one of the richest parts of Paris, next door to the Hermes showroom on the rue du faubourg saint honoré. Sounds posh, right? But I was working illegally for this rageaholic Japanese woman who ran an audio-visual import company and, since I was living in the company’s $3500/month corporate apartment, she could pay me whatever she wanted. Which basically I meant I worked all the time and then had to walk a couple miles to a neighboring arrondissement to buy my wine and groceries. Oh, and I was also a pretty bad drunk. Continue reading