tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-752124547057118772024-03-04T20:21:11.949-08:00bbbbrights bbbbabbling bbbblogThis is where i write, and tell stories :)Bright Ohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366160753668675056noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75212454705711877.post-11928020476040338412013-06-12T20:48:00.002-07:002013-06-12T21:00:50.843-07:00<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This will be my tenth album of original songs (140+) since I began performing in Second Life a little more than four years ago and I have decided to make a fuss of it - in part to make up for the complete lack of fuss over the previous nine. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #424242;">For the first time I am going to wait until all songs are finished (apart from one) before people get to hear them. Then I will perform a number of shows in SL that include just my new songs. The only song this doesn't apply to is, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Venice</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #424242;"> as I have already put it up on FB for folks to listen to.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">This group of songs came in such a rush that there is still something to be completed in almost every song before it is ready to be performed and I am a bit overwhelmed by it at the moment. But by the end of June I should be able to plan the concert dates.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">I think this group of songs fit nicely in with the direction my songwriting has been moving over the last four years. I am very content with them overall and I hope some of them will appeal to the people I write them for - you! I need to be locked in a room, or taken to a beautiful beach house and be waited upon and pampered until the album is completed. Perhaps I just need some gentle prodding :) Go ahead - prod me!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">So here then are the working titles of the new songs I hope to finish for this album. We shall see how many made the cut once I get to the new album shows. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #424242;">As with most of my albums a number of songs are co-written with, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Experiment Rhode</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #424242;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Thanks for reading</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>To Another's Heart</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>In The Pouring Rain</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Stranger At Loves Door</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Venice</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>I Saw A Rocketship</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>The Soldier</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>I Am A Child</b></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><b>Not Another</b></span></div>
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Bright Ohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366160753668675056noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75212454705711877.post-30097498841466626282013-03-25T20:29:00.001-07:002013-03-27T03:04:27.160-07:00Getting personal with love (punctuate as you please)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am more inclined to be personal, and wordy, in my blog. More so than I am on FB where there is so much to take in that long updates have to be really interesting to get my attention. Perhaps if you have found your way to my blog you actually have a few minutes to spare. Takes them all :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have recently commenced a musical project that I am calling, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">20 Love Songs</span>. In short, I want to see how many songs I have written fall into the different categories of (romantic) love that I have known or witnessed. Twenty is just a guess for now. I still don't know whether the project will just be made up of "romantic" love songs or whether I will venture into other types of love.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am not rushing. I am starting out by not being too wordy in my descriptions though I know when I have been thinking about all this there have been times when I thought there was lots and lots that could be written. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the beginning I was also very attracted to having another person add their feelings/words about my categories and songs - to save me from having to over analyse my own work and to add a close but entirely separate perspective. I still like the thought of this.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">THE START</span>. About three years ago when <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Experiment</span> first began to put SOAR tunes onto CDs he asked me and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Charles</span> for some liner notes to go with the songs that we had written. I love liner notes! But by the time I got started on my third and fourth songs I came to the conclusion that they were all about the same thing - "she up and left me and I wasn't coping very well". This may have been easy for others to see in my early songwriting. Not me :). And in my defence I do, mostly, just write the songs that come out of my heart, mouth, head and I don't try to write about particular things/themes. So at times I do have a bunch of songs being written that (over) represent similar things.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The truth is that when I was younger I had a very limited appreciation of love, in particular of romantic love. It was deep and passionate for sure but at times all consuming and irrational as well.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS</span>. Fact is that over the years, with reflection, with some growing up, with some wasted years, with some life changing experiences, with the help of some remarkable people, I could see love in so many more things and people, and in experiences and situations than I had before. I feel so much better for it is all I can say. And many of these found their way into songs.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">WHY THE PROJECT THOUGH</span>. Love is simple and love is complex. Love is for a day or forever. Love is close and distant. Love is obvious and love is hidden. Love is everything and love is boundless. People do fall in love with their first girlfriend/boyfriend and get married and have families and live happily after. Some people may know romantic love every single day of their adult lives while the journey of others is littered with highs and lows. Some people spend more time alone than they do together. But in the stories of our lives, love is love however it has chosen to visit us. This is why the project is about the kinds of love I have known, or observed because one persons experience could never embrace all manner of love.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The project is going to live on my website - easier to do incrementally, and to edit. Easy to find, here.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.brightoh.com/Bright/TWENTY.html">http://www.brightoh.com/Bright/TWENTY.html</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">PROGRESS</span>. At the time of doing this blog entry I have the first five categories listed (no logical order to the list yet).</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. Loving the one person forever though you will never see them again.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. Growing apart without even knowing it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. Long distance love.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. Seeing someone you love being hurt by someone they love.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. Even when a proposal is rejected - it is still love.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks for reading :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hugs</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bright</span>Bright Ohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366160753668675056noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75212454705711877.post-34822641438647976312013-01-27T20:42:00.001-08:002013-01-27T20:42:32.127-08:002012 IN REVIEW - CD3<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am always especially fond of new songs and thus this is the batch of songs that currently receives this extra affection. Inevitably my feelings about some of them change over time, but that is for another day :) Only three out of the thirteen songs included on this CD are yet to be debuted in my shows in, SecondLife. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was pleased with what began to flow when this songwriting burst began in mid September so I worked hard to capture as many songs as I could before I ran out of inspiration and energy. Which I did, but not before completing a group of songs I am very fond of.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unexpected</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Innocence</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pretty Boy</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Will You Be</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Afterglow</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Garden</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Charon's Moon</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Hourglass</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Connecticut</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many McLean</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Only Yesterday</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I had almost finished writing, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Innocence</span> I knew that there was so much more that could be written about this story than would fit into one song. I decided instead to write a separate song, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Jasmine</span> to tell more of the story that came before, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Innocence</span>. At the same time Experiment and I had been discussing an unnamed song (became, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Unexpected</span>) we had begun in mid-2011 but not finished. We hadn't finished it because we felt that the imagery we had used in the lyrics was somehow incomplete and we weren't sure how to solve the problem. However in the context of, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Innocence</span> and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Jasmine</span> we came to see that it made the ideal first song of what is now a trilogy of songs telling the one love story. Love found unexpectedly in an exotic location, Mandalay!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Photographs</span> followed quickly. A simple idea that took much trial and error to come up with the best set of images to use. When so many lyrics are considered and rejected I am always left with the feeling that maybe we didn't choose all the best ones for the final song. Nonetheless I am very happy with how this song turned out.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Pretty Boy</span> followed with a tongue in cheek look at where I might be in twelve months time. I haven't sung it in SL yet because it hasn't fitted into the type of shows I have mostly been doing these last few months. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">The Hourglass</span> almost had the same fate until I debuted it just in the last fortnight. This is a song about, disappointment but I mostly like it because of the overall feel of the song. I will sing it more when I fit it in around complementary songs.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">An interesting challenge came next through a wonderful set of lyrics called, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Charon's Moon</span> written by, Experiment. This song completed another trilogy, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">The Crescent Moon</span> and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Raven Moon</span> preceding. I think the feel of the music is right for the intensity of the lyrics. The story woven through the lyrics of these three songs by, Experiment is quite a journey.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just as the clarity of this wave of songwriting was coming to an end, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Connecticut</span> and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Mandy McLean</span> fought their way out. I call these two my bonus songs because they could almost have escaped my attention. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Connecticut</span> about what thoughts there are when your heart dwells on someone and places from long ago, and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Mandy McLean</span>, a tribute to every boy's first girlfriend :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Only Yesterday</span> was a song commenced in January 2011 and finally completed in December 2012. I returned to the song because it had used some of the same harmony ideas as are used in, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Unexpected</span>. I am glad i returned to it. Lyrically it follows a path I have taken in a number of other songs - reflecting on hurtful events in the past and now seeing them in a bigger and sweeter light.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I cannot go past the tale of an unexpected encounter with love to be the name of this album. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Innocence</span>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you for reading and listening. If it were not for you so many of these songs would never have had a reason to be written. I am so glad they were.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hugs</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bright</span>Bright Ohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366160753668675056noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75212454705711877.post-128562941005591672013-01-25T03:01:00.004-08:002013-01-25T03:01:56.817-08:002012 IN REVIEW - CD2<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My second album of 2012 is mostly made up of scattered songs less connected in time than the songs on the first and third albums.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3zXwobiCWdfs2lp-bRhi0l9HTR7HX-M9-gCQ4gRhr1QflkOmDCH79LjmvztXfbTgL8u07aEY31uDE3mqoL0J7ZCy_0d4MwopUxfxKhA8KGjQr3lJlDsHLiPzppZKsNmzeRiSkS1E7DFHC/s1600/THE+UNICORN'S+PROMISE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3zXwobiCWdfs2lp-bRhi0l9HTR7HX-M9-gCQ4gRhr1QflkOmDCH79LjmvztXfbTgL8u07aEY31uDE3mqoL0J7ZCy_0d4MwopUxfxKhA8KGjQr3lJlDsHLiPzppZKsNmzeRiSkS1E7DFHC/s200/THE+UNICORN'S+PROMISE.jpg" width="200" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Real Part</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mother Dylan</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">East Of Nowhere</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Endlessly</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Falling</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eucalypt Candlelight</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where Our Secrets Are</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All In A Circle</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Friends And Lovers</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Unicorn's Promise</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">The Real Part</span> is a light look at how falling in love can sweep a simple and indecisive man along. It is in the style of a previous song, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">1993,</span> both about how few questions some ask about love when they are young and falling in love. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Mother Dylan</span> invokes and combines the maternal spirit to six unrelated things and suggests that it is very wise to do so. While <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Endlessly</span> and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">East Of Nowhere</span> are different styles of song they traverse some of the same themes. A man's final unexpected experience of love, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">East Of Nowhere</span>, and how love's arrival can be in a moment at the end of a long struggle, in, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Endlessly</span>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two collaborations with, Experiment follow. The completion of a song begun years before by, EX with the addition by me of some chorus musical and lyrical variations. Aptly titled, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Falling</span>. And <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Eucalypt Candlelight</span> based on Experiments lyrics recalling the sights and sounds and feelings of his youth and how easily they are still recalled now.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Where Our Secrets Are</span> tells how sweetly a man may still remember a girl he loved and have no intention of stopping even though they are no longer together. Interestingly, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">All In A Circle</span> follows this song with a warning about failing to make choices in love when you still have choices in love! Happily we can follow this with, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Friends And Lovers</span> written about two people clearly unaffected by the two previous songs :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And finally, but specially, a song written by Experiment and I for our sweet and courageous friend, RebelMum. The album shall bear the name of her song, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">The Unicorn's Promise</span>. Hugs to her :)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And that is it for CD2, complete at ten songs. The final album for the year features fourteen songs which were written in the same burst of songwriting from September through November. It will be reviewed soon!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks for reading.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hugs</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bright</span>Bright Ohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366160753668675056noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75212454705711877.post-85780802816286540622013-01-23T18:15:00.001-08:002013-01-23T18:15:46.416-08:002012 IN REVIEW - CD1<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">About a year ago I blogged about the three albums worth of new songs written in 2011. I commented that at the end of the last burst of songwriting that year that I was exhausted and wasn't sure I had any songs left in me. Happily this was not the case and there were another 3 albums of songs written in 2012.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As a songwriter I have a special interest in songs written in roughly the same period because they represent, one way or another how I was feeling, my influences and what I was capable of musically at the time. One day it will be interesting to go back over them and to see what became of the songs and where they sit amongst all the songs I ever write. But onto CD1/2012.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">January to March 2012</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mesmerised</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTj3vv5_M6SCK6f8IXBIHkuZGupRkTz1Grh3frcD-MvaTfIw5sDnQMIpizJefCfch3hlflTQwxonr6pOeHX-tEwViyTH7ZscJaJxhEL_CqPaXMAdYjXI9Whm6ViI_HBWJOu4Q63AH1fZ_l/s1600/THE+MOUNTAINS+WHERE+WE+LIVE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTj3vv5_M6SCK6f8IXBIHkuZGupRkTz1Grh3frcD-MvaTfIw5sDnQMIpizJefCfch3hlflTQwxonr6pOeHX-tEwViyTH7ZscJaJxhEL_CqPaXMAdYjXI9Whm6ViI_HBWJOu4Q63AH1fZ_l/s200/THE+MOUNTAINS+WHERE+WE+LIVE.jpg" width="200" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Horses In The Rain</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Angel</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Proposal</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ship Of Dreams</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Sting In The Tail Of Love</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Raven Moon</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just When I Had It All</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Mountains Where We Live</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From A Whisper</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Rattlesnake And Wolf</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fingertips And Tears</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pick Up The Pieces</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Mesmerised</span> and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">The Angel</span> begin the album with sweet thankfulness for having love in a life. It was no reflection upon any change in my mood that two of the next songs are more emotionally challenging - <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">The Proposal</span>, about a rejected proposal, and, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">The Sting In The Tail Of Love</span> about a woman who realises deep into a relationship, that she has everything she needs, apart from the right kind of man.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In between there were three songs based on Experiment's lyrics. I hesitantly suggest a theme for each of these until we hear what Experiment has to say :) A reflective look at love in, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Horses In The Rain</span>; a deep look into destructive love in, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Raven Moon</span>; and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Ship Of Dreams</span> a tribute to, the Titanic in the year of the 100th anniversary of her sinking. This song was played during the remembrance service held on SecondLife's very own, Titanic sim. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Raven Moon</span> is the second song in a trilogy of related songs based on lyrics from, Experiment, including, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">The Crescent Moon</span>, and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Charon's Moon</span> (completed later in 2012). <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">The Sun And The Clock</span> is the/an answer to the feelings expressed in, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">The Proposal</span>. I am yet to debut it in my SecondLife shows.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Just When I Had It All</span> is a song about that moment, as love is falling apart when suddenly it becomes too difficult to know what to do, or to know whether to stay or to just let go. Perhaps <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Fingertips And Tears</span> is about the path away from, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Just When I Had It All</span>, and the discovery of new love.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Apart from my usual songwriting collaborations with, Experiment on this CD there are two songs co-written with new collaborators! I wrote the music to accompany Whisper Ampan's beautiful lyrics in, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">From A Whisper, </span>and then MichaelJames Magic, Experiment and I joined forces to write, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Pick Up The Pieces </span>from a desire of MJ's to honour the folks of a town in the USA flattened by a tornado not long before.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">The Rattlesnake And Wolf</span> is a simple song about the perils of following certain dreams.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">The Mountains Where We Live</span> was begun in early 2011 but was not completed until early 2012. I have blogged about this song separately. Welcome to the mountains and to the wonderful joys of life and love :) I so love to sing this song and am so happy it finished out like I hoped it would a year previous. It is my choice for the name of this CD.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">CD2/2012 review coming soon.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks for reading!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hugs</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bright</span>Bright Ohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366160753668675056noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75212454705711877.post-41869310915366815762013-01-15T19:41:00.001-08:002013-01-15T19:41:43.213-08:00Shedding some confusion in early 2013<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi Gang :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As many of you who go to my shows know I am very happy to have year long goals that I work diligently towards every single day of the year. I also have no fear of failure evidenced by my 2011 year long goal to get a celebrity girlfriend :) The beginning of 2013 requires a few lesser goals to make my life as a SecondLife musician a bit easier.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I use social media to have fun and catch up with friends and help promote my music but I don't want to become LIKE driven. So I'm hoping to keep it simple, friendly and personal for all of us. I'll list all my 2013 social media links at the bottom of this post and I would love for you to keep in contact with me through any that you choose.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SOAR, the band I play in in SecondLife with my mates, Experiment and Charles only played two gigs in 2012 and as a result my performances as a kind of de-facto, SOAR is beginning to create some confusion especially amongst my new friends and fans. To help shed this confusion I am creating a brand new BRIGHT group in SecondLife and creating a new BRIGHT band page in FaceBook. The SOAR group will be there ready for any future SOAR gigs.</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuv60iUGcw8ubQnHiXCkg71cXkBxOTg4sFpC-Sbg8wfvUmiPW0Brsrtaj-4yhrYL9acB7wHKq07KE36E0HUSabLpLzOHSf9Zl1VDJYcoeLvXaMkclvBGLs_HK8BfNglXWCcWzQZR-Ewrba/s1600/Picture+12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuv60iUGcw8ubQnHiXCkg71cXkBxOTg4sFpC-Sbg8wfvUmiPW0Brsrtaj-4yhrYL9acB7wHKq07KE36E0HUSabLpLzOHSf9Zl1VDJYcoeLvXaMkclvBGLs_HK8BfNglXWCcWzQZR-Ewrba/s320/Picture+12.jpg" width="186" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is my hope that SOAR continues to do gigs so that all the friends of SOAR get to enjoy the three of us playing together. In the meantime though I want an unconfused musical focus. Please help me along with this if you can find another group slot for me in SecondLife.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">FaceBook LIKES. I did a gig recently where after generously promoting the musician who was to follow me up on stage (as I always do) he got up on stage and referred to me as, "the previous guy" and critiqued some aspects of my performance that were none of his business. I heard what he said but I don't know him or what he was actually trying to say. It could just be another example of the lack of respect for fellow musicians that occurs from time to time in SecondLife. I stand against it. No exceptions. We all have a stake in making our homes, workplaces, lives and worlds respectful places.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I got thinking. Firstly I am going to change my name (for a bit) to, "The Previous Guy". It is a stunningly good muso/band name :) Secondly, when it comes to my band/musicians page on FB it is going to be on a strict quid pro quo basis. If there isn't mutual respect in the asking for LIKES with fellow musicians/venues/pages, I won't be playing the game.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks for reading :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hugs as always to each of you!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bright/The Previous Guy</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Website: www.brightoh.com</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Bright-Oh/100002308330373</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">FB Band Page: The Bright Oh Fevah</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reverbnation: http://www.reverbnation.com/brightoh</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Twitter: http://twitter.com/brightoh1</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Blog: http://brightoh.blogspot.com/</span>Bright Ohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366160753668675056noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75212454705711877.post-46913760185413373282012-11-21T03:28:00.001-08:002012-11-21T03:28:11.969-08:00THE MANDALAY TRILOGY<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week i finally debuted the song, Unexpected which completes "The Mandalay Trilogy". It was a back to front process as, "Unexpected" is the first song in the trilogy. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some of the song came quickly - the melody, a few lines of interesting lyrics and the lalalas of the chorus but then the demo spent some time in the SOAR Vault, while Experiment Rhode and i tried out different lyrics. It was the hardest of the three to finish and the finishing of it got overwhelmed by the next two songs.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have sung the three songs one after the other in my shows but in normal circumstances this won't be the usual case - so I thought I would put all the lyrics here for you to read in sequence.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks for reading. Hugs</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>UNEXPECTED</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Faint Sound of Insects in The Afternoon </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">along the streets of ancient Mandalay</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">where I’m Falling</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’m Falling into love</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes I’m Falling into love with you</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A double Rainbow in a rain soaked Sky </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the smell of incense down a steamy lane</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as I’m Falling</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as I’m Falling into love</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I’m Falling into love with you</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Soft Scent of Jasmine Floats upon The Breeze </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Takes Me To a Place (only) a woman sees</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">when she's Falling</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">she's Falling into love</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">when she's Falling into love with me</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tell me do you want to be my queen </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">do you want to run away from the things </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">you can't explain anymore</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cooling Purple Mist behind a Waterfall </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">soft on our skin as the truth unfolds</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that we're Falling</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">we're Falling into love</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">we're Falling into love in another world</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>JASMINE</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jasmine take a walk with me until we reach the sea </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">listen as the fisherman's children play happily</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and taste the salty air upon my lips and fingertips</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">then give yourself to me tonight like we were meant to be</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So Jasmine from old England let me take soft hold of you </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and whisper what the prophet says about the coming of this day</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No coincidence no rhyme no reason or complicated view</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">just you and i along the beach where the flying fishes play</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Quiet Jasmine listen do you hear the things i hear</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the early morning chatter rising from dark and ancient streets</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the scent of oils and the touch of lace upon these silken sheets</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">brings me back to paradise to steal another kiss</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jasmine from old England from yesterday and far away</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">our lives have changed forevermore because of Mandalay</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">now not a single day will ever pass without the sharing of these words</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that you and i have found our place and we will want no more</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>INNOCENCE</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in the moment before waking when you're in another world</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">i reached out my hand and found you there</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and we made a toast to innocence and the things it let us be</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as we made our plans we smiled helplessly</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">would we climb high up to the pagoda</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">would we ask for buddhas blessings one more time</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">i don't know, what i would say if i hadn't had today</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">i remember our first breakfast you and i alone </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">skipping along the riverbank like we were still at school</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">how we made a toast to silliness when laughter told us when</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and i found the child within my heart again</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">then we climbed up to the old pagoda</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and thanked holy buddha for his peaceful prayers</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">then i tried, to find a way to thank you for this day</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now my heart knows the truth and its telling you how</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that it wouldn't change one little thing</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">my heart, your heart, our hearts, belong to love</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When The lights on the horizon Ceased Their Jewelled Display</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">we pressed against each other where the willows trees swayed</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and we made a toast to destiny and all that she would bring </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">memorising each and every precious thing</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so we danced until morning bid us home</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and into each others arms we moved</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">i don't know, what i would say if i hadn't known today</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">i saw you on the balcony wrapped in a satin robe</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and quietly i watched and admired the unknown</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and we drank a toast to each other and all our memories</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for we found love in Mandalay and now we can believe</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and for every single moment more</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">i'll give thanks to every god that heaven knows</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and then i'll say, in every way i know that i'll never let you go</span><br />
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Bright Ohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366160753668675056noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75212454705711877.post-25994711501561618312012-09-29T21:01:00.000-07:002012-10-04T17:51:22.778-07:00Thank you, thank you September!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ahhh September I shall remember you fondly for you gave me so many songs. I mostly have songwriting bursts and have written other blog entries about these. I hope these entries act as a kind of reference point for what i was doing, feeling, thinking, and capable of musically at the time.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From these bursts there are always many more incomplete songs than there are finished ones and if I get back to some and finish them it is nice to be able to look back and see where their beginnings were.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wrote, "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Endlessly</span>" on June 19, 2012 and had not completed another song through July and August, and then September 1, Experiment sent me the lyrics to a song he was working on called "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Eucalypt Candlelight</span>" which he and I finished over the next couple of days. After this - another ten completed songs and twenty plus partial songs. Here is the list of the completed songs so you will recognise their names when you hear them in one of my shows. I hope you like some of them. You can listen to "Innocence" by clicking on the title.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm still fiddling with some song titles but these will do for now :)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eucalypt Candlelight</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where Our Secrets Are</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Will You Be</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All In A Circle</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Unicorns Promise</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Friends and Lovers</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unexpected</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jasmine</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://soundcloud.com/bright-oh/innocence-14?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=blogger&utm_content=http://soundcloud.com/bright-oh/innocence-14" target="_blank"><b>Innocence</b></a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pretty Boy</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Photographs</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As always, thanks for reading this far.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hugs</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bright</span>Bright Ohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366160753668675056noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75212454705711877.post-43618388903321472012012-08-20T21:25:00.000-07:002012-08-20T21:25:12.171-07:00Sometimes you're up and sometimes you're down.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Someone, (maybe even your God) planned it this way - that throughout our lives there would be times when we needed a helping hand and other times when we were the helping hand. Cast an eye around your life at this very moment and you will likely see this thread of human existence being played out. It is a beautiful thing :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">About ten days ago there was a 26 MUSIC MARATHON staged at the Colour Factory in SecondLife to support RebelMum Slade with whatever joy the music would bring, with whatever money it would raise, and to raise awareness of her battle against cancer and her pursuit of a wonderful adventure. The marathon WON on every level - but there is work to be done still.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But first. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">The music!!!!</span> Just freaking incredible - some of SL's most generous and enjoyable and vibrant musicians - and at their very best. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Max Kleene, Sid Slade, Josi Anderton, Theresa Nayer, AMForte, Edward Kyomoon, Tamra Hayden, Shannon Oherlihy, Gina Gracemount, Quantamis, Marky Helstein and SONIX, and the boys from SOAR</span>. Thank you people, SO MUCH!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">The organisers!</span> Yep, yep and yep. Imagine trying to organise all of this, and then be there to make it happen. Whisper and Precious - you are such treasures. Hugs. And to the bunch of people who jumped at the chance to help everything along during the 26 hours - i saw what you were doing and it was wonderful. Big hugs to you folks too.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The money! YIKES. In SL linden dollar terms over 500,000 was raised. Around $US1900.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Truly amazing and just another example of people knowing when it is their turn to be the helping hands. Love you all! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is a wonderful review of the whole show at www.theparfaitparty.com</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">The work still to be done</span>. When you read RebelMum's blog you will know what more there is to be done. It will take more money to guide her and drive her on her adventure and more importantly it will take many more words of support and friendship to sustain her through good and bad days alike. Some of us can most easily do the money thing and some of us are more able to do the support and friendship thing - just another of the clever things about life - there is something of enormous value that each of us can do!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">RebelMum is a wonderful person and a sweet sweet friend of mine. I commend her heart and her adventure to you. Please take a few minutes to read some more about her, in her own words :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">www.theparfaitparty.com</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And as always, thanks for getting to the end of another blog post :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hugs</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bright</span><br />
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<br />Bright Ohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366160753668675056noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75212454705711877.post-35560724342823586262012-07-07T19:53:00.000-07:002012-07-07T19:53:14.381-07:00SONGWRITING FOG<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On Friday i played my regular fortnightly gig at the beautiful Under the Willows (incarnation 54d - in joke). My set was after the sweet and relatively new sounds of Amelie Mayr, and one of SL's best known, AcousticEnergy (AE). Max Kleene followed me. It is always such an honour to play at the same shows as these people. See the pic advertising a very special night of shows at Under the Willows this coming Friday - i'd love to see you there :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During my intro to one of my newest songs, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">EAST OF NOWHERE</span> i was explaining how i can lose confidence in a song sometimes and that this can delay my debuting of it in my shows and how often i sing it once i have. AE commented that this happens to him too. This is reassuring news and has prompted this blog entry.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some songs are quickly written and others take an amount of trial and error to finish. For some songs i may been singing them to myself for hour after hour as i work on them, and then somehow, just as they are about complete i lose my feel/confidence for them. It is hard to explain - but have you ever said a single word over and over to yourself and discovered that the word loses all meaning somehow? If you have then this is a bit like how it is. If you haven't then it's impossible to explain. Try it :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This confidence loss happens even though the people who i use as crash test dummies for my new songs are telling me that the song is ok/good/wonderful. I have blogged before about how Experiment has played this part in my songwriting with incredible accuracy over the years and while i trust his feedback i am the one who has to sing them and i can't sing them unless i believe in them.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Later in the day at my gig at the Colour Factory i decided to put aside this songwriting fog and to debut my newest song, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">ENDLESSLY</span> and to bring back into my show another new song, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">THE STING IN THE TAIL OF LOVE</span> that i sang twice a month ago and then dropped from my set list. I am happy to say that they appear to have been well received :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sometimes it is simply a matter of singing them live in a show that brings me back closer to the song (something that can't be replicated in my studio at home), and of course the feedback from the people at the show makes so much difference to me and every performer in the world. Thank you sweet peoples :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So today sometime i am going to take a lesson from all of this, again and finish another song or two that have been languishing in the fog.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WHEEEEEE.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks for reading and getting this far.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hugs. Bright</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Bright Ohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366160753668675056noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75212454705711877.post-40876658158242706202012-06-28T01:05:00.000-07:002012-06-28T01:05:16.590-07:00CANCER COUNCIL AUSTRALIA GIGS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are many surprises in store for people as they become familiar with SecondLife - one of them is the incredible generosity of the people in the live music scene. On the 26th of June at the Colour Factory the friends and fans of SL performers Russell Eponym, SOAR and Gina Gracemount donated over 150,000L$ during their performances to benefit the Cancer Council of Australia. We are all touched by cancer and by this generosity. Thank you sweet sweet people. And to Whis and Precious who organised it all - an extra "sweet" for you girls :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hugs. Bright</span>Bright Ohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366160753668675056noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75212454705711877.post-60788593182176091792012-03-18T18:58:00.000-07:002012-03-18T18:58:14.187-07:00As it turned out - we celebrated anyways :)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The weekend just passed saw the three year anniversary of SOAR music coming into SL. I wasn't planning anything special cos i am the same shy guy you know, in all things :) But as things turned out it became a lovely little celebration anyways.</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg48mU8beIg08TJ_RzSVSU0V6te66_UozXZXOxUZn5_NphOpBWgXTmBgEbcBF7_-4YkzLRHhydzoPENtwu9lLetL4Xjwv1RvVddjMJ6Oq46qBScwjGJe_iuTWZB-gJe_jCVsyyrq_fv2QQ2/s1600/Test+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg48mU8beIg08TJ_RzSVSU0V6te66_UozXZXOxUZn5_NphOpBWgXTmBgEbcBF7_-4YkzLRHhydzoPENtwu9lLetL4Xjwv1RvVddjMJ6Oq46qBScwjGJe_iuTWZB-gJe_jCVsyyrq_fv2QQ2/s320/Test+2.jpg" width="294" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Saturday started out with a gig at the Bleu Katt. It was the first time there for me (thank you kiki for having me over) and a sweet bunch of SOARINGS came over to keep me company. Thank you gang! And then sweet Precious from Under The Willows had a cancellation and asked if i would like to fill it. Sure i would :) And another great bunch of SOARINGS came on over - and well i had let it slip that the anniversary thing was real. So a great morning for me with two ballad sets done and dusted as well as the debut of The Mountains Where We Live!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was ready for a rest, except for something i almost missed because i cant ever get my calendar working perfectly. During the last week Experiment and I had been working with our great mate MichaelJames Magic (DOM) on a new song that he wanted to dedicate to some people close to his heart affected by a recent tornado. It was debut time for the song during MJ's gig at Purelife. Oh man i'm so glad i was reminded about this and didn't miss it. MJ did a fantastic job performing the song in his usual wholehearted and sincere way. Love your work MJ!!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then night time. Then a show to finish my Saturday, on the wonderful Colour Factory main stage. All the worlds insomniacs were there and it was really a fun time with a full mid tempo rock set. Thank you Whisper and Precious for going out of your way to make it a happy time :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So thank you everyone for a great day of gigs. Your support, love and attendance never goes unnoticed whether there is only you at a gig or sixty. In our own ways, however it finds us on any given day we get to share the joy of music and this is a wonderful thing. Throughout my life there are many crystal clear memories of times spent and loved sharing music. These days singing in SL have a special place amongst them forevermore.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you sweet peoples :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh yeah, the photo of me!! Hehehe. I couldn't find a photo of a cake with three candles on it........</span>Bright Ohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366160753668675056noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75212454705711877.post-44188923827143629532012-03-05T17:11:00.002-08:002012-03-06T07:01:50.746-08:00The PALPITATIONS of the BIO<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know it goes with the territory but when people ask me for my bio, i get palpitations. Now that SOAR is taking a little break i know i need a new bio, and i have tried - really.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I sit down armed with a whole list of awesome adjectives - the ones no other musician has ever thought of using, and i begin. And then i realise that i have to write it as if it's not me writing it - hence, Bright is this, Bright does that, Bright charges this much. HE WHAT!!! This is all very unnatural to me. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have sometimes gotten a paragraph or two done and then i make the next big mistake - yeah, i reread it to fix any mistakes. And that finishes it - i cant publish this rubbish.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Against my better judgement, but i am in a jam cos people are starting to think its a bit odd that i don't give over with my bio within the first five seconds of meeting them, i do need one. Here it is then - a couple of bio type paragraphs that the wonderful people from venues can use if they wish, and then a bunch of paragraphs that are really about me and will fit better on my website and stuff. And figured that both may make a good blog entry for today :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's ok if you cant read it all to the end - i cant either :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hugs sweet people!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bright Oh is one third of the band, SOAR who played over 600 shows of their original songs in SecondLife from early 2009 until taking a break in early 2012. Bright’s solo shows include his own songs as well as the songs written with his mates from SOAR, Charles and Experiment and a handful of wonderful collaborations with other friends. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bright is a singer/songwriter and story teller in the finest tradition of, of, well of himself. His shows flow between ballads, mid-tempo rock and ecopolitical rants (unplugged, and/or with backing tracks), and with stories so real you will want to cry or burst out laughing, and tales so fanciful that you will want to shake him :) So, don't believe everything you hear at a Bright show. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With lyrics that will touch your heart, melodies that will linger on, harmonies from another time and with lashings of sweetness, fun and mayhem thrown in, you really should take a chance on Bright, one day :)</span><br />
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You gotta love the stuff written to be put in bios :) Now some first person stuff from me!<br />
I feel as though i am on a wonderful musical journey - one i never quite imagined taking. I am a songwriter, entertainer, singer, producer and guitar player - in about this order of preference. I LOVE writing songs and i LOVE performing them. For now these efforts are concentrated in the virtual world, SecondLife where it’s wonderful people and friendships and opportunities has given me a musical journey i don’t want to get off any time soon and for which i am so grateful.<br />
I have spent lots of time in real life being a singer of other peoples songs - i loved this too because it is through the wonders of other peoples music that i discovered my own. But now is the time for me to dedicate myself to my own music and that of my close friends Charles and Experiment. I don’t set out to write good songs or bad ones and i don’t get absorbed with critiquing my own work, i just want to let the songs flow, try new things and grow as a songwriter.<br />
I write for myself and i’m not trying to appeal to anyone or fall into line with the cool people or mimic the best songwriters in the world, i just love writing songs from whatever comes out of my mouth and from my fingers onto the frets of my guitar. There will be good songs and ordinary songs - good days and bad days. So be it :)<br />
Love, appreciation and respect for ALL music expression rules in my world. This is why i yawn (with a mouthfull of food) at anyone who wants to tell me how i should play my songs in SecondLife or anywhere else :)<br />
I am amazed by the appreciation and love and opportunity many people have given me (and SOAR) in this journey. I say it often but i don’t know that you truly believe it. You people are so many of my reasons for writing and performing. It would be nothing like the same journey without you. I hope you know who you are - cos you would be embarrassed if i wrote your names here :)<br />
So, thank you, truly, for all you have given me. You are wonderful. I know that many of you love some of my (and SOARs) music - so i guess we have a pretty good arrangement going here!!<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You did good reading to here. Hugs</span>Bright Ohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366160753668675056noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75212454705711877.post-18601822034412858602012-02-28T20:54:00.000-08:002012-02-28T20:54:39.718-08:00WHEEE, the MOUNTAINS WHERE WE LIVE, lives!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi Folks :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have blogged twice about a song i began writing in Jan/Feb 2011 called, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">THE MOUNTAINS WHERE WE LIVE</span> and today i can blog about it again because it is all but finished. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was one of a bunch of songs i wrote and began in early 2011 (last update on Nov 8, 2011 blog entry). I got about sixty seconds worth of demo done on it in Feb 2011 before the completion of other songs took priority. Once i got a bunch of songs completed i was pooped and didn't get back to "THE MOUNTAINS".</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I knew i was taking a risk not finishing the song while the original energy for it was still fresh but i also knew that i liked it a lot, and i fully intended to get back to it. A year later i have and it is complete bar for a few lyrics i'm fiddling with.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This blog entry breaks a couple of my songwriting rules - don't hype any song i write - cos i'm a songwriter not a spin doctor, and especially don't hype a song that isn't complete. But well, i'm overdue a blog entry, and i am happy the song is about finished and how it has turned out.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I should be debuting it in the next week so i no longer need the gentle reminders i asked you to give me about finishing it :) Thank you!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks for reading.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hugs</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bright</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had a wonderful burst of song writing in November last year. From it there are about ten songs happily in the song list for my shows in SecondLife. New songs dried up soon after but i didn't worry because i was very content with the November songs, and this is a cycle of songwriting that i have been through before.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As the new year began something was on my mind, and i do know that this is silly, that the songwriting output from 2010 and 2011 was going to be hard to match. Yeah, see, told you it was a silly thought. But i hadn't even written one for 2012 yet!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So i started to pick up my guitar and try a few things out and soon i had this four bar riff thing going that i really liked. Every day i would come back to the riff and start trying to develop it further and almost every time i would come up with a new version of a song based on the riff. But i wasn't quite ready to commit to any version and i kept writing more variations of the song. Maybe i ended up with seven! Anyways comes the day when i decide that the most recent version is the one to do a proper demo of.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In my head the song just sings. I just love it, in my head. So i record an acoustic guitar version - it sucks. But it cant be because the song is bad, so i do a more produced version - it sucks. But in my head, it is great.</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5f6P_jURCKculVEM_tR9PrQ5UXRZnpkDHzfTrhX_OGLQdPOIH01RQdl1wGDcm1chyjmk0t6coGuV-dZ2OTAdJoWGOW3KE8MoHA__6-5sjletLB8C1uUHS05-xGWEVhMFVbEcL9rJ_G2Ya/s1600/MESMERISED.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5f6P_jURCKculVEM_tR9PrQ5UXRZnpkDHzfTrhX_OGLQdPOIH01RQdl1wGDcm1chyjmk0t6coGuV-dZ2OTAdJoWGOW3KE8MoHA__6-5sjletLB8C1uUHS05-xGWEVhMFVbEcL9rJ_G2Ya/s320/MESMERISED.jpg" width="320" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I tried and tried, day after day, and every day i was getting deeper and deeper into January with still nothing to show for my efforts.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You prolly need to know this about me about now (repeated from earlier blogs i think) that i live in fear of not having any songs to write - of them just drying up. So i get nervous, real nervous :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finally i got so frustrated with this new song and my inability to make it work that i literally said "damn you song, i'm going to write a completely different one"! It's getting weird now isn't it :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Twelve hours later i had finished <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Mesmerised</span>, and a few days later i sang it for the first time, at the beautiful new venue, Ce Soir.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As for the original song, well it's headed to the SOAR vault for a bits.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can listen to the song by clicking on the heading of this blog entry.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks for reading and thank you for listening.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have a sweet 2012 kids.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hugs</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bright</span>Bright Ohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366160753668675056noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75212454705711877.post-2620267236187178562011-12-12T23:48:00.000-08:002011-12-12T23:48:46.745-08:00SOAR 2011 DISCOGRAPHY - CD3<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eighteen days to go before 2012 but we have enough songs for our third virtual CD release of the year. There may be more songs written before the end of the year but the last burst of songwriting in late November has left me feeling as if there are none left. This is rubbish hopefully :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All but one of these songs was written in October and November (Dearest Caroline snuck into early December). In writing order (pretty much);</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Home Again</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">The Edge</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">The Favourite Daughter</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">The Flame and the Arrow</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">The Hippie Retrospective</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">All of the Pieces</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Comes the Wind</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Into My Arms</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">You Stopped Listening</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">I Can be Your Fortress</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">The Promised Land</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Hold On To Love</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Dearest Caroline</span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCXLbg4AewM1r3LkyrGw4hILO4M4PCSYXJiQVeVM62-T-4Hpdv9wTpcEmWiwmydLRoZSHRI4zZxc-qiGpuZA7-g26PoBVspcGPnOs3X7BGBVPrqBxjSdCqge0zFfl79UEQa5LkvELm4LzV/s1600/THE+FLAME+AND+THE+ARROW.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCXLbg4AewM1r3LkyrGw4hILO4M4PCSYXJiQVeVM62-T-4Hpdv9wTpcEmWiwmydLRoZSHRI4zZxc-qiGpuZA7-g26PoBVspcGPnOs3X7BGBVPrqBxjSdCqge0zFfl79UEQa5LkvELm4LzV/s320/THE+FLAME+AND+THE+ARROW.jpg" width="320" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Love" in many of its variations features strongly on this album. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Home Again</span> speaks about what it feels like to see a friend being hurt by love and knowing that you can doing nothing about it. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Dearest Caroline</span> tells one of the many stories about the reasons why people can be left waiting for the person they love. The confusion of love and the rewards and risks of taking love to the edges of what we know rumbles around in <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">The Edge</span>. Comforting friends who have fallen out of love is the theme of <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">I Can be Your Fortress</span>, while<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"> You Stopped Listening</span> wanders around the theme of all the songs that have been written for someone or about particular situations where the subject never hears the song. And perhaps <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">All of the Pieces</span> and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">The Favourite Daughter</span> are the hardest love lessons of them all - moving on when you feel it is what is best to do, while <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Hold On To Love</span> mixes both the heartache of separation with a resonant message rising out of despair, to hold on to what you have.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Add to these the less challenged emotions of<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"> Into My Arms, Comes the Wind and The Flame and the Arrow</span>, and the usual SOAR excursion into ecopolitical content in <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">The Hippie Retrospective, and The Promised Land</span> (yet to be debuted in SecondLife), and the album is complete.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I particularly like these songs as a group and i think they belong together. There were many other part songs written during this period and for now they live in the SOAR vault. Perhaps when i am next holidaying on a beach somewhere, or on that romantic hotel balcony in Geneva, cold bitter lemon drink or iced tea in my hand, sunglasses on, the twins fussing around me looking after all of my commands :) i will go digging into the vault and revisit October and November 2011.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope there are songs amongst these that you enjoy. I love what <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">The Flame and the Arrow</span> means to me and how the music of it lifts me up, so it shall be the name of CD3.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As always, thank you for reading!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hugs</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bright</span>Bright Ohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366160753668675056noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75212454705711877.post-24590057437408269302011-11-29T21:46:00.000-08:002011-11-29T21:46:40.387-08:00SOAR 2011 DISCOGRAPHY - CD2<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hehehe - the heading sounds vaguely impressive!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This blog entry covers the songs that make up SOAR's second imaginery CD in 2011 and features songs written between May and August and listed here in a rough order of writing.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Spirit</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Love Letter</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Love Wins</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wild Winds</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tell Me About Tomorrow</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All Through The Night</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fragile Notes</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kismet</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From Another Page</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I Used To Hear You Say A Prayer</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If I Could Fly (Lalita's Song)</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Ballad of Hope and Prime</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Three common threads in SOAR's songwriting are revisited in this album, secondlife based songs, ecopolitcal, and of course love songs which dominate this album. It is true that much of SOAR's earliest material sought inspiration, indeed thrived upon sweet naive love and the torment of relationship break down but this album sees SOAR reaching further into the pool of love related writing. The songs are matched with sparser and more intricate arrangements overall which helps gives this collection of songs a common identity.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have an inkling that SOAR's upcoming Christmas CD compilation will be named Fragile Notes so i shall choose another title for this album - then let it be, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;">Love Letter</span>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All but one song has been debuted in secondlife gigs (Wild Winds) and all songs except If I Could Fly, words written by Lalita Graves, were penned by SOAR.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Forgive the complete absence of a she-doggone-up-and-left-me song from this album - we will overcompensate for this in a future album :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks for reading and for being part of our reasons to write.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hugs</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bright</span>Bright Ohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366160753668675056noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75212454705711877.post-54894805815884406932011-11-15T06:06:00.000-08:002011-11-15T06:06:03.274-08:00The SOAR DISCOGRAPHY, of sorts.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So far this year SOAR has had another year rich with new songs. We pretty much play them as we write them because that's why we write them - to play for people. I am ok with missing out on the thrill of a new CD launch and all the hype that can go with that but I am starting to feel that something else is missing - hence this blog entry.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love going to allmusic dot com whenever I am trying to find out some info about a muso or band. It is a great resource of full discographies and thoughtful reviews. For me there is something interesting and revealing about the musical journey of a band as measured by their album releases, and this is something SOAR doesn't have. SOAR has only made one album of new material, our album titled, A Girl Like You, though we are coming up to our fourth compilation album this Christmas.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For a while now Experiment and I have been piecing together SOAR's collective songwriting into chronological order. This is made easier because Experiment has been the long time keeper of the SOAR music vault, and the history, recordings and dates that are important to our chronology. While it is an imperfect way to decide upon album groupings, it is the best we can do after the fact.</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqUBvUwX6rlgS7Q7VOb9ffjl9hQJDznhk5-CGviV_wepmJrRxPh3m4x9DDKG-pb9a9F5QzxL5O3fhzrGl6l1A8rWuH3xRrLkjRNPuIYDR7SPl_ZxWKnzPqaUGlsctEOFOYR8AyomJcJp7v/s1600/MY+WANDERING+MUSE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqUBvUwX6rlgS7Q7VOb9ffjl9hQJDznhk5-CGviV_wepmJrRxPh3m4x9DDKG-pb9a9F5QzxL5O3fhzrGl6l1A8rWuH3xRrLkjRNPuIYDR7SPl_ZxWKnzPqaUGlsctEOFOYR8AyomJcJp7v/s320/MY+WANDERING+MUSE.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When I look over my own songwriting I know that there have been particular phases and influences that have resulted in a bunch of songs being written from the same burst of creativity. I see them having a context when grouped together over and above what they have as individual songs so I am going to try and put some structure to this. Thought I would begin with songs written this year, 2011 and attempt some kind of allmusic styled review as I go.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first few songs from 2011 I am leaving aside to be added to the songs written in the latter part of 2010, these include </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rise, Silently, and Cathedral</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> because the first burst of concerted song writing in 2011 began with the bunch of songs I blogged about in late February.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gonna Give You Reasons</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On Our Knees</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Wandering Muse</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Songbird</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Hummingbird and Bee</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Story of Love</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Straight From the Heart</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Flying Back to Canada</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Paris Hilton's Cell Phone</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's a Sad Moon Too</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Your Candle Burns</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gina Gracemount</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Highs and Lows</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This batch of songs was written between February and April - and may be added to if a couple of incomplete songs from then, such as </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Mountains Where We Live, Life Goes On, and My One Tomorrow</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> are finished. Thinks of an album title, mmm, let me see, I'd go with, My Wandering Muse. Yes :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In my mind the foundation songs in this period are My Wandering Muse, Songbird and Flying Back to Canada. Each explores the reaches of sweet sweet love where fate rather than disaster or the falling out of love has intervened. From mystical enchanting encounters as in "Muse", to chance encounters with a lover from the past, in "Songbird", to the maddening intrusion of reality into blissful youthful love, as in "Canada", to the reflective look at immature mistakes in "It's a Sad Moon Too".</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To these songs were added "The Highs and Lows" and "Gonna Give You Reasons" two songs about two kinds of mess people can get into, and the love and the years that can be wasted in doing so, and three songs, two lightly weighted love songs, "Story of Love" and "Straight From the Heart", and one exploring a more intense attraction, "Your Candle Burns".</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The album is completed with four special purpose songs. The first, "The Hummingbird and Bee" was written in time to be sung at Relay For Life events in SecondLife, while "Paris Hilton's Cell Phone" was written as the 2011 follow up to the Juliette Trilogy, Bright's fruitless 2010 search for a girlfriend named Juliette, and "Gina Gracemount" was written for our sensational friend, Gina to try and gain the upper hand in our gig flirting war! SOAR WINZ. "On Our Knees" was written to augment our group of songs about the state of the world.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now I feel better! OMG it's an album. Mmmm, now to decide a track order :) Perhaps i will do that separately. Ahhh - perhaps we will let others suggest a track order. Go right ahead :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will do the next two 2011 albums, in due course.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks so much for reading.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hugs</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bright</span>Bright Ohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366160753668675056noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75212454705711877.post-42387126554058632532011-11-08T21:22:00.000-08:002011-11-08T21:33:05.440-08:00What became of "The Mountains Where We Live"?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK_2XlLjwyHutBMqP5PjTau14kiUmkQxISPDl0aa5VfOSdw3t8kg52lBuCvY1zrP8yNhpM6vE4eP48OWbXN1dCpWc3n51z1fA_Zlk80GZx06Jq_x-_Jgj2Z0BeTZubNlUskH3AJRc2cZHE/s1600/LakeTekapo_ROW1129199628_20100926.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK_2XlLjwyHutBMqP5PjTau14kiUmkQxISPDl0aa5VfOSdw3t8kg52lBuCvY1zrP8yNhpM6vE4eP48OWbXN1dCpWc3n51z1fA_Zlk80GZx06Jq_x-_Jgj2Z0BeTZubNlUskH3AJRc2cZHE/s400/LakeTekapo_ROW1129199628_20100926.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Way back in February 2011, it's a long time for a songwriter, i invited some close friends over to the MP3 Lounge at the Colour Factory to test out some new songs i was working on. I will forget someone i expect, but let me see, Experiment, RebelMum, Precious & Mari sounds about right. This blog entry is about one of those songs, "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">The Mountains Where We Live</span>" which is yet to find it's way into SOAR'S shows in SecondLife.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I routinely test my songs out on other people even when i am happy with them - because i get too close to them, and too close to them very quickly when i am writing them to be objective about their merits. Over a long period of time Experiment has been this person for my songs and i also do it with others from time to time - like this time. This was a songwriting period that saw the writing of a bunch of songs that have already made their way into SOAR shows, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Songbird, My Wandering Muse, Story of Love, Straight From the Heart</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">, On Our Knees, Cathedral, Flying Back to Canada, The Hummingbird and Bee, Paris Hilton's Cell Phone, and Gonna Give You Reasons,</span> and a bunch of parts of songs such as "The Mountains Where We Live" (see the FEB 25 blog entry).</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some of the demos i played that day at the Colour Factory were more complete than others. With <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Songbird</span> and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Wandering Muse</span> and <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Straight From the Heart</span> i was sure the songs were complete enough to be properly considered by my friends, not so "The Mountains". I had 61 seconds of that to demo.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I still have 61 seconds of the song - exactly the same 61 seconds and yet in my mind and some of my friends this song was the most enticing of all. So what became of it and why isn't it finished? </span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4xfPIIXgMs38Co5yIxfaav8JlqgCS5AxnQeRpWp7tALzOmi5fZdHxTJa3oyOXMRs3m9-kDACMz2HcSmEg_DdsXo5k8F1J6zkmfEIdYyEchT_QPQCxc2m-umljM4hVFjYUVTPnqXNUOOMS/s1600/Picture+8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4xfPIIXgMs38Co5yIxfaav8JlqgCS5AxnQeRpWp7tALzOmi5fZdHxTJa3oyOXMRs3m9-kDACMz2HcSmEg_DdsXo5k8F1J6zkmfEIdYyEchT_QPQCxc2m-umljM4hVFjYUVTPnqXNUOOMS/s320/Picture+8.jpg" width="320" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the beginning i was so happy with the 61 seconds and so sure i could turn it into a good song that i put it aside while SOAR put the finishing touches to the songs closest to being finished. This is one of the greatest pleasures of songwriting, playing them in our SL shows. And i think they have worked out pretty good and still make regular appearances in our shows. But songwriting also takes a lot of nervous and creative energy and a self belief that is rarely constant for a week or more. And it is this factor, the self belief i think, that was the downfall of "The Mountains". Add to this our desire to get songs finished and into our shows, and our hectic performance schedule, and then even newer songs coming along and it is easy to see how this happens.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Throughout the years Experiment, Charles and i have been writing songs we have had plenty of songs end up in the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">SOAR vault</span> to await the return of inspiration. Many are still waiting, including 'The Mountain".</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But, this song, this one was one of the two i was most anxious to see survive the demoing to EX, Mari, Rebs and Precious, and i really want to finsih this song and for it to have its chance in our shows. I need pressure to do so - and you can help pressure me if you like :) Just ask me from time to time "how it is going" :) And then sound disappointed if the answer is still 61 seconds.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">There's a place in my heart for you</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">and i know in my hearts it's you</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">in the mountains where we live</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">by the rivers and the oceans and the seas</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Who knows whether these lyrics will survive the completion of the song - we shall all see, one day, perhaps....</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The photos. One of Lake Tekapo in NZ, and one of what we actually call a mountain, where i live!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks for reading.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hugs.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bright</span>Bright Ohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366160753668675056noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75212454705711877.post-7655851781269450272011-11-06T20:35:00.000-08:002011-11-06T20:36:45.613-08:00THE FLAME AND THE ARROW across the USA<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGWwtX5PPAkYKqeiQUa0NJdrK5qaM1hNEDL9dE6DBXPpIqOyl2AzIRlFra8f2whCCnRQgmBv59EXqG0SRHW2L-AOnE621vvAynbH1sONP3RRf7PB4wX1j1W8FN1NmIC680Jl57ibcQvjrv/s1600/THE+FLAME+AND+THE+ARROW.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGWwtX5PPAkYKqeiQUa0NJdrK5qaM1hNEDL9dE6DBXPpIqOyl2AzIRlFra8f2whCCnRQgmBv59EXqG0SRHW2L-AOnE621vvAynbH1sONP3RRf7PB4wX1j1W8FN1NmIC680Jl57ibcQvjrv/s320/THE+FLAME+AND+THE+ARROW.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Once upon a time someone special in my life and i planned a road trip across the USA and Canada together. No matter what route we decided upon it always began and finished in the loving arms of our wonderful friend, Enchantress :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now and forever the latest SOAR song, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">The Flame and the Arrow</span> will remind me of their sweet love. And if they don't like the song i just don't know what i will do!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Clicking on the title of this blog entry will let you hear the song.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks for reading and listening.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hugs.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bright</span>Bright Ohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366160753668675056noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75212454705711877.post-65306336141486920092011-10-30T17:49:00.000-07:002011-10-30T18:58:17.536-07:00BAD BLOGGING BRIGHT. I do love B's, but i still don't do B chords!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqIRK3nhnai7qFnbPYnnTscnOE5zP3rwvk4lrZfrKLd7TaHNMCwSdkszaNRvQbJxtnPnvwnpYTzetca2xoz6oNuI80__fkrQ_KcMtNfnCZnTlqPwEU-yNTN2V-IWcv0X684XLmo62wDXUB/s1600/RenderedImage-3.aspx.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqIRK3nhnai7qFnbPYnnTscnOE5zP3rwvk4lrZfrKLd7TaHNMCwSdkszaNRvQbJxtnPnvwnpYTzetca2xoz6oNuI80__fkrQ_KcMtNfnCZnTlqPwEU-yNTN2V-IWcv0X684XLmo62wDXUB/s400/RenderedImage-3.aspx.png" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi Gang. Here is an update for you about some SOAR type things you may be noticing. I have just begun a series of solo Bright shows in which i will be singing some of the SOAR songs that have fallen off our regular playlist. I'm calling these the FORGOTTEN SESSIONS.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">About six months ago we realised that some songs were starting to be forgotten and we have been keeping a list of the songs we sing at each show ever since. And, it is true. For a month or so we have been trying to include at least one of these songs in each of our shows but now with my Forgotten Sessions we hope to bring many more of them back to your ears, in a gig.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first of these gigs was on Sunday at the Colour Factory. I sang our way through the following songs and finished off with our newest song, written the same day, called All of the Pieces.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Cry the Lucky Country</b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><b>The Farmer</b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Rise</b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Cathedral</b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Did I Ever</b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><b>In the Clouds</b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><b>Traces</b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><b>The Favourite Daughter</b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><b>If I Could (Lalita's Song)</b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><b>A Girl Like You, and</b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><b>All of the Pieces</b></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Forgotten Sessions will likely be short notice impromptu shows, and promoted mostly in the SOAR group and SOM. So please get yourself into one of these if you would like to know when these shows are on.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As always, thanks for reading, and thank you for giving us so many reasons to write songs :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hugs</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bright</span>Bright Ohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366160753668675056noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75212454705711877.post-7642763750659850312011-09-18T19:31:00.000-07:002011-09-18T20:10:26.249-07:00ART, the teacher.....The Ministry of the current Australian Government.<br />
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A painting by Gustav Klimt.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What can i say about this place except that it exceeds my craziest hopes for it. This is the third build of the Colour Factory done by the sweet, hehe, and exquisitely talented, Scarletti Laval. It is very much it's own place but also a wonderful evolution of the previous two builds. It is a masterpiece Letti - thank you so much.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Letti and i set out to build places that add to the wonderful tapestry that is SecondLife and given Letti's particular interest in art, and my interest in music, to build a place <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">where music and art combine, wash over each other other, clash, inspire, soothe and entwine in ways that shouldn't be defined</span>. You will love it, or hate it, but you are unlikely to be ambivalent towards it. Sobeit.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the top floor is Letti's gallery and the gallery stage, and on the mid floor is a cavernous space that nonetheless draws you irresistibly towards the main stage. You really should come and experience the effect for yourself! I love it!!! Musos walk up to the stage from the musos private green-room beneath the stage. The photo is of me looking down towards the main stage and through the windows to the mountains beyond.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The official opening features seven hours of live music, beginning at 5am Friday 16 September SLT with three shows, SOAR, MichaelJames Magic and Avantegarde Frequency, and concludes with four hours of live music from 5pm Friday SLT featuring Damian Carbenell, Christopher Quan, TerryLynn Melody and Gab Nyoki (dual streaming), and SOAR. Damian, Chris, TerryLynn, Gab and SOAR are presented by virtue of a wonderful gift from Precious Rallier and her venue Under the Willows, to the people and the place that is the Colour Factory. I can't thank you enough Precious (not to mention the time you spent hunting down lag here :) )</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We have some wonderful plans for the Colour Factory and i will blog about them in future posts. But for now i wish to thank the people who have helped the place live and breathe and whose energies have got us to this day. I know you will continue to make it a place of art, music, community and all manner of wonders - in particular Letti, Rebs and Whis. Big hugs for you girls. It wouldn't be what it is without you!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks for reading!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bright</span>Bright Ohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366160753668675056noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75212454705711877.post-83855013069758285492011-08-30T19:54:00.000-07:002011-08-30T19:54:55.486-07:00FRAGILE NOTES<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It falls short of fact when a band member and/or songwriter tells the world that their latest CD or song is fantastic. Roll your eyes and begin to get skeptical i say. And should you read anywhere in this post any hint that the guys just had a whole lot of FUN recording this, or that we have gone back to our roots to create magic. Then i say switch off. Tune out. Throw up.</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje8bjFmQEN9syQUJR65AU1JaVi2NYkYeunYtazAqBoK545LPkxIzo-Fem4MS2zi8O7yy-lkO0TXOvgWYd-hSfr8bSZqeFkz9J3A17OOsXFmCLd_RuDipgAompKm5GMRLT8JRFH10-XjVV9/s1600/FRAGILE+NOTES.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje8bjFmQEN9syQUJR65AU1JaVi2NYkYeunYtazAqBoK545LPkxIzo-Fem4MS2zi8O7yy-lkO0TXOvgWYd-hSfr8bSZqeFkz9J3A17OOsXFmCLd_RuDipgAompKm5GMRLT8JRFH10-XjVV9/s320/FRAGILE+NOTES.jpg" width="320" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This song, Fragile notes, is the latest song written by Experiment and Bright. Mostly the beautiful lyrics from Experiment's hand, and mostly my music. It took a month or so to finish because after i recorded the first demo of it Experiment had some different ideas for the phrasing of the song and it took me some weeks to get the original phrasing out of my head so i could sing it without reverting to the earlier version.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I believe this is some of Experiment's finest work and i am sure the song will fit wonderfully into many of our gigs in SecondLife. May you especially enjoy the lyrics, below, and also the song. Click on the title of this blog entry for a link to the song. I hope.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hugs.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bright</span><br />
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</div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Words Are Falling From The Sky</span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Like Tears Upon The Stage</span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Thoughts That Lie Beneath Life’s Dust</span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Escape Onto The Page</span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">i Take My Heart and Lay it Bare</span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">With Fragile Notes, Upon The Air</span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">My Winter’s prose, Turns Into Prayer</span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Never cry, For I’ll Be There (i'll be there)</span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Salt Adorns His Tired Eyes</span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Like Rust Around His Heart</span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Mem'ries Made of Broken Glass</span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Reflections From His Past</span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Hear Soft Voices From My Soul</span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">With Stories That They'll Leave</span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">I Take The Feelings From My heart</span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Place Them Gently at Your Feet</span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Paper Blank With Written Words</span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Yet No Words Can Describe</span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">The Music Weaves Itself Into</span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">A Love I Cannot Hide</span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Take My Heart and Lay it Bare</span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">With Fragile Notes Upon The Air</span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">My Winter’s prose Turns Into Prayer</span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Never Cry For I’ll Be There (i'll be there)</span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">It's Not Time To Let it Go</span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Though The Winter Winds of Age Blow Slow</span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">And I’ll Be There For You</span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">It's Not Time To Let it End</span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">For The Winds of Age Won’t Let Us Pretend</span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">But I’ll Be There For You</span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 16.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">It's Not Time To Watch it Go</span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">Though The Winter Winds Will Let Us Know</span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;">And I’ll Be There For You</span></div></span>Bright Ohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366160753668675056noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75212454705711877.post-77851683070589353402011-07-25T21:30:00.000-07:002011-07-25T21:30:15.253-07:00Incredibly 150 songs<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlWTgwrBFKIvKpp_D6Sn_OxzvNSoZQCs-2KwatV7Ad1wa08lk5qJgJ1vE827r7pSwgmTC-KGv3NSTMCh-3WMQs_xXeWP_30tRx4KStOAVoTdr918cL6YhU00VKEg3lDpRDr-qPasj7FYDZ/s1600/TELL+ME+ABOUT+TOMORROW.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlWTgwrBFKIvKpp_D6Sn_OxzvNSoZQCs-2KwatV7Ad1wa08lk5qJgJ1vE827r7pSwgmTC-KGv3NSTMCh-3WMQs_xXeWP_30tRx4KStOAVoTdr918cL6YhU00VKEg3lDpRDr-qPasj7FYDZ/s320/TELL+ME+ABOUT+TOMORROW.jpg" width="320" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hi folks. The SOAR song TELL ME ABOUT TOMORROW is about to become the 150th original song sung by SOAR in SecondLife. It is a song especially for anyone who has ever wished for just one more day with a parent.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Clicking on the title of this blog, and/or the following link will take you to where you can listen to it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.box.net/shared/490fjumdk4n445s3dyd2</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Warm hugs</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bright</span>Bright Ohhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11366160753668675056noreply@blogger.com4