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Recorded at Lava Tracks Studios, with the help of Charles Brotman, this is a short EP of only three tracks. Two instrumental, and one - “Wisdom Tooth” - has lyrics. I’m learning recently that there is far more wisdom in silence, peace, simplicity and presence than in constantly trying to solve everything with words and explanations. Imperfections exist and the ones in this recording session were not edited out.
I wrote “Wisdom Tooth” during COVID after reading Don Miguel Ruiz’s The Four Agreements. The first agreement is 'Be Impeccable With Your Word,’ which means words have power. Use them wisely because they create the world you see. I’m not one to try and tell others what to do so this, like many of my songs, is a letter to myself in my own efforts to reframe my thinking to be more positive. This song is also a reminder to be mindful of how I/we speak to myself/ourselves and each other.
Musically, I’ve rewritten and rearranged this song at least three times. This features a fun progression inspired by folk and Hawaiian slack key guitar. To bring an extra element and fill out the sound, I incorporate percussive elements to provide a rhythm and backbeat behind the bass and melody.
“Sugar Shack” and “King of California” are both percussive fingerstyle arrangements of mine. The latter of the two is based off a melody from the song of the same name by Dave Alvin. My dad would play a mixtape made my his friend Brock that featured this song on it and the memory and melody has been stuck in my head since childhood.
Nowadays, learning fingerstyle guitar and using those techniques to improve my own songwriting, I build the rest of the song around a familiar melody then get curious and start asking “where can this go from here?” “How can I improve the dynamics?” “What technique can I use to make this song feel like a story?”
That’s enough from me :) Thanks for being here and I hope you enjoy “Wisdom Tooth”
Recorded at Lava Tracks Studios, with the help of Charles Brotman, this is a short EP of only three tracks. Two instrumental, and one - “Wisdom Tooth” - has lyrics. I’m learning recently that there is far more wisdom in silence, peace, simplicity and presence than in constantly trying to solve everything with words and explanations. Imperfections exist and the ones in this recording session were not edited out.
I wrote “Wisdom Tooth” during COVID after reading Don Miguel Ruiz’s The Four Agreements. The first agreement is 'Be Impeccable With Your Word,’ which means words have power. Use them wisely because they create the world you see. I’m not one to try and tell others what to do so this, like many of my songs, is a letter to myself in my own efforts to reframe my thinking to be more positive. This song is also a reminder to be mindful of how I/we speak to myself/ourselves and each other.
Musically, I’ve rewritten and rearranged this song at least three times. This features a fun progression inspired by folk and Hawaiian slack key guitar. To bring an extra element and fill out the sound, I incorporate percussive elements to provide a rhythm and backbeat behind the bass and melody.
“Sugar Shack” and “King of California” are both percussive fingerstyle arrangements of mine. The latter of the two is based off a melody from the song of the same name by Dave Alvin. My dad would play a mixtape made my his friend Brock that featured this song on it and the memory and melody has been stuck in my head since childhood.
Nowadays, learning fingerstyle guitar and using those techniques to improve my own songwriting, I build the rest of the song around a familiar melody then get curious and start asking “where can this go from here?” “How can I improve the dynamics?” “What technique can I use to make this song feel like a story?”
That’s enough from me :) Thanks for being here and I hope you enjoy “Wisdom Tooth”