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Some of my favorite memories. Most of them have become music. When my heart bloomed and time was forgotten. * Zambia I had just spent the last few hours with him. Tall, lean, boisterous, charismatic. On his body two small birds inked. I retired back to my bed, my mind a mess. An hour had […]
Words have power. I like to believe I am careful in how I string them together. Especially when I write music and around the people I care for. Writing helps as it clarifies my thinking. Hence I know what to say when I do engage. A few days I mentioned that it’s time I switched […]
This podcast deals with the stories we tell ourselves. I am sharing my own journey with music and the stories I weaved over the years; how I make sense of everything. Especially, the difficulty I had writing music after Daddy died.
Today a thought occured to me, or rather a question. ‘Just who are you becoming?’ The Auriol I knew at the start of this year feels like another person. On bad days it feels like there is no more music left. And all I want is to crawl into arms and cry. A really big […]
Every morning at 4:30 my Mother can be found praying. Every evening Gilda stares at the sky doing the same. These women, beacons of light in being, it occurred to me forget the power they seamlessly emit. Yet what they, and so many like them fail to realise is that they are a raging bonfire […]
Decided to give it a go. Change things up a bit. No, no…this is not a professional vlog. Recorded on my phone in our backyard on Friday. I only managed to figure out the rest today. And yes, the beer was fantastic!
No explanations are required in this instance. Use it, don’t use it. Sugar coating has no place here. Bounce at the sign of the first red flag. In all and every kind of relationship. When dealing with abusive men or women – discard the idea of playing fair. Your need to do so will be […]
Look, I maintain, if you are gonna cover a song give it something other to set it apart from the original song. Thereby making it yours. Or else why bother really? This is Matt Corby’s version of a song by The Black Keys called Lonely Boy. He has one sublime voice and his take only enhances […]
I forgot that I covered this Ben Harper song more than 8 years ago. Of course there is a story attached to it. I was asked to sing at a Women’s Month event a few years after my divorce. Only after singing this song I realised that I was singing to a bunch of women […]
Silence isn’t golden as the song says. It never is. This coming from a musician who only by composing and performing music learnt how to speak… Tonight’s conversation with my Mother left me feeling highly disturbed. She recalled an incident where I was under one year of age, faked sleep and cried with joy when […]