Lots of music work today. Completed the string arrangement, flutes and distorted mock-guitars for 'Written On Rice'. Apart from vocals and a lead (live) guitar part, this is largely done.
Then, started work on lots of little tunes, and worked on fragments and older songs. I've revisited a song from that time (2002) called 'The Paper King'. The lyrics area piece of silliness about a paper world where the king is the only person with a pencil (inspired by the old proverb that in the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king). The tune though, however simple, is catchy and bouncy and fun. The song 'Robot', added to We Robot, wasn't that far off in date terms to the origin of this one. This too has a simple up-down-up bass, and lots of analogue sounds, so it sounds a bit like a Yazoo track (and indeed my other music from that time, like those on The End And The Beginning). I need new words for it I think, though this is a backwards way of working for me; I prefer to start with an image and create music and words from that. Still, variety of style and content is important. We can only push ourselves by doing things that we don't usually do, and we can only improve by pushing.
I've also started a basic sequence for the first Light Bulb song, and a second idea, a nice rock beat to build a feeling from; plus lots of work on a song called 'Bye Bye Spotify', though the mood is light and whimsical, a bit like The Beatles' 'Her Majesty'.
