I’ve completed my track by track blog series for my instrumental album. Here are the final three parts:
Embers seems to have become the stand-out track. Several reviews have mentioned it as a favourite, and to be honest it’s one of mine too.
Do I say every track is my favourite? I think I do, but you’d expect me to be biased, right?
The score for Embers is half prose, half music…
As with Embers, this track contains a bit I really like because I didn’t play it – Alun’s bass line in the middle is great. One of those instances where you just tell a player ‘put a solo there’ and they provide something perfect.
This track was put here to provide a change from Embers. The early tracks on the album are pretty upbeat, Embers brings us down, so Clamour needs to up the energy so the final two tracks take us out on a high.
Track 8: The Broadcast My Birthday On A Numbers Station
Several years ago I wrote a songwriting blog. It no longer exists. But one of the things I created for it was a little melody writing exercise for which I used the lines:
“They broadcast my birthday on a numbers station
I still don’t know what it means”I thought for years that is was too good a tune (and lyric) to just be an exercise in a songwriting blog…