Beautiful important words, thank you for writing this. As a lover of mindful living and a Yogini I always found it hard to merge my music activities with my spirituality or desire to work with my rhythm. I always found myself asking… how crazy that we are constantly pushed to produce as fast as we can, stay young and perfect and always be on top of things when the creation of music is in itself a meditative practice. I am inspired by all those artists who like you remind us of coming back to ourselves, to follow our rhythm and transform what ‘success’ means in a capitalistic society. This to me is inspiring and brave! Thanks!!
Late bloomers inspire me, or overlooked pieces, whatever the Art form. All hail the underdog!
From Van Gogh, to Big Star, Robert Altman, to Richard Matheson, Charles Laughton's Night of The Hunter to Pino Donaggio's venture into Film Scoring.
Aimee Mann's Mental Illness (LP) being a masterpiece many years after her initial step into the music industry
Ann Wilson (and Heart) bringing the remaining members of Led Zeppelin to tears as they perform Stairway To Heaven at The Kennedy Center... In front of their idols, whilst Jason Bonham joins in tribute behind the kit.
Friends, old and new, releasing self funded albums via gigs, fanzines, MySpace, Bandcamp and beyond..
The creativity of Art and the inspiration of how it may have been created is equally as inspirational as the finished item itself.
As they say, 'all good things come to those who wait'. Keep the virtue Catherine. It's worked so far.
Thank you for this inspiring take. As someone who is feeling the urgency to record and release with a very unrealistic self-imposed timeframe, this is such a helpful and heartfelt reminder 🥰
In the case of Extraordinary Machine, I believe the record company insisted on almost the whole album being re-recorded before they would release it. (I am lucky enough to have both the released version and the unreleased Jon Brion version - just don't ask me how)
My understanding was that Fiona wasn’t happy with the JB version. She felt that it sounded like a brilliant JB record but not “her” album. I have both versions too!
Ah, I may have been misled. They are interesting to compare, aren't they? The version eventually released is braver and rather more radical, overall - so I can see the thinking. Although not as radical as Boltcutters!
Maybe then, there's something to be said about the the internet,or technology at least, in it's ability to ease the business side of things. Inspiration can strike anywhere, even if we can't all wake up with Yesterday firmly stuck in our heads but less pressure to pay the bills definitely helps.
I don't imagine Dave is cheap, have you considered crowd funding this particular amount? I understand if not but watching other bands Insta's and Patreons, you do have a very loyal fan base.
This was an enjoyable read and I agree that it’s not always a fast thing - creating music can be slow sometimes. It sometimes takes me a long time to compose music and sometimes less time!
Beautiful important words, thank you for writing this. As a lover of mindful living and a Yogini I always found it hard to merge my music activities with my spirituality or desire to work with my rhythm. I always found myself asking… how crazy that we are constantly pushed to produce as fast as we can, stay young and perfect and always be on top of things when the creation of music is in itself a meditative practice. I am inspired by all those artists who like you remind us of coming back to ourselves, to follow our rhythm and transform what ‘success’ means in a capitalistic society. This to me is inspiring and brave! Thanks!!
Late bloomers inspire me, or overlooked pieces, whatever the Art form. All hail the underdog!
From Van Gogh, to Big Star, Robert Altman, to Richard Matheson, Charles Laughton's Night of The Hunter to Pino Donaggio's venture into Film Scoring.
Aimee Mann's Mental Illness (LP) being a masterpiece many years after her initial step into the music industry
Ann Wilson (and Heart) bringing the remaining members of Led Zeppelin to tears as they perform Stairway To Heaven at The Kennedy Center... In front of their idols, whilst Jason Bonham joins in tribute behind the kit.
Friends, old and new, releasing self funded albums via gigs, fanzines, MySpace, Bandcamp and beyond..
The creativity of Art and the inspiration of how it may have been created is equally as inspirational as the finished item itself.
As they say, 'all good things come to those who wait'. Keep the virtue Catherine. It's worked so far.
Thank you Anthony.
Thank you for this inspiring take. As someone who is feeling the urgency to record and release with a very unrealistic self-imposed timeframe, this is such a helpful and heartfelt reminder 🥰
Really glad you found that helping. It’s an ongoing argument with ourselves, isn’t it?
I loved reading this.
In the case of Extraordinary Machine, I believe the record company insisted on almost the whole album being re-recorded before they would release it. (I am lucky enough to have both the released version and the unreleased Jon Brion version - just don't ask me how)
My understanding was that Fiona wasn’t happy with the JB version. She felt that it sounded like a brilliant JB record but not “her” album. I have both versions too!
Ah, I may have been misled. They are interesting to compare, aren't they? The version eventually released is braver and rather more radical, overall - so I can see the thinking. Although not as radical as Boltcutters!
Maybe then, there's something to be said about the the internet,or technology at least, in it's ability to ease the business side of things. Inspiration can strike anywhere, even if we can't all wake up with Yesterday firmly stuck in our heads but less pressure to pay the bills definitely helps.
I don't imagine Dave is cheap, have you considered crowd funding this particular amount? I understand if not but watching other bands Insta's and Patreons, you do have a very loyal fan base.
This was an enjoyable read and I agree that it’s not always a fast thing - creating music can be slow sometimes. It sometimes takes me a long time to compose music and sometimes less time!