Sidingsound

Maps and movement (or lack of it)

Nope, still haven't committed a demo of the new song to disk, but I'm really going to try hard over the weekend, honest! (I mean, it's just going to be guitar and vocal at first, so how long can it take, anyway...?)

I also had an idea for yet another song, that I started "brainstorming" when I arrived home from work this evening. Sometimes, I use "mind maps" (or a mutated version thereof) to help me organise related thoughts, and I find they can work pretty well for songwriting, at least when you're at the stage of collecting ideas, concepts, phrases and so on for your new creation.

Anyway, I jotted down a few thoughts as a mind map, and will leave them to percolate for a bit, as seems to be my usual habit. I won't mention much about the song yet, except to say it's another element of my "concept album" idea, about two young lovers who like to meet on the old stone bridge over the stream on the edge of the village.

And anyone who's thinking that this sounds like a rural retelling of Terry and Julie's end-of-day romantic meetings in the English capital... well, if you listen to enough of Ray and the boys' oeuvre, as I seem to be doing a fair bit at present, one can't easily help the odd influence creeping in here and there, can one...? ;-)

Labels: conceptalbum, music, songwriting

posted by Tim @ 20:11