Miriam… and Untimely Demise…

Listen/purchase: Leave Me To My Own by Syd Lane

I decided to do one of those questionaires where you use song titles from one musician to answer all the questions… Except I used my own songs instead of someone elses.

Pick Your Artist: Syd Lane

Are you male or female: Black Sheep Girl

Describe yourself: Easily Loved Easily Hated

How do you feel about yourself: I Died For Beauty

Describe your current boy/girl situation: I Go Where He Goes

Describe where you currently live: Astride A Grave

If you could go anywhere you wanted to go: Up The Shore

Your favorite form of transportation: Butterflies

Your best friend(s) is(are): The Men of Midnight

Your Favorite time of day: The Moon and the Liar

If your life were a TV show, what would it be called: Charlotte and the Wolf

What is life to you: Simple Pleasures for the Complex

What is the best advice you have to give: My Reach Exceeds My Grasp

Thought for the Day: Tomorrow Whispers

How I would like to die: And Others Artists Shouldn’t Dwell On

My soul’s present condition: The Crazy Things You Knew

One of the most wonderful and mysterious things about making music is this thing I call phantom sounds… I don’t know if this is an actual term for it… but, when you’re listening to your mix with headphones on for hours and hours, you start to hear things that aren’t there.  The sounds you’ve put together almost make new instruments, and new parts, imaginary sounds which are just barely audible so far away in the mix… and if you listen closely, you can actually pick these parts out and then create them for real.  If I look at it romantically, I like to think this is the quiet voice of the muse whispering about what should be in the song.  But realistically, it’s obviously some kind of aural illusion caused by all the reverb and the echoes which have been recorded.  You don’t have to be making music to know what phantom sounds are!  When I was growing up, before I ever made music of my own, I would hear distant parts in songs that didn’t actually exist.  It would freak me out, I’d be asking people if they heard what I heard but they never did…

I’ve decided that my next studio is going to look like the black lodge.

Apathy by Mikal Cronin

One of my favourite songs right now.

I have such a difficult time recording live videos!  I really need to get a proper camera, but I’m still stuck making webcam videos from my laptop or using my crappy little mobile phone - not very good quality…

This is myself and Wolf playing Rose Hip November by Vashti Bunyan.

A Parting Gesture by The Bluetones

You’ve walked between the raindrops for far too long.  You’re gonna get what’s yours.