February Songs
February
My One Day One Song project “February” is available on various outlets:
See Bandcamp for purchase of individual songs or the whole catalogue..
Listen to my song-blogposts on my homepage
Subscribe to my “February” YouTube playlist.
It all started when…
…one of my favorite artists released a new album after many many years of personal hiatus. Denison Witmer’s American Foursquare is an absolute masterpiece of contemporary folk. I can listen to it for hours and hours. On his Bandcamp page, Denison had published an exercise in songwriting, writing and releasing one song a day during the month of January 2020. Folky tunes in his own personal style, musings, free associations, a gem of songwriting craft. He quite didn’t make it to 31 songs but still a great achievement.
Inspiration struck.
“February Songs” is my own personal exercise to bring back my own long lost songwriter skills. During my late teens and early twenties, I wrote songs almost daily. All styles, some band-recorded live in rehearsal basements or professional studio settings, some home-recorded on my old trusted Fostex A8 reel 8-track.
In late 2020 I upgraded my home-recording capabilities, bought an adequate microphone, a good keyboard with weighted keys, and invested in a Logic Pro X license. From February 1st to 28th (thankfully there is no 29th this year), I created one song a day. I started out with a blank piece of paper on my piano or behind my guitar. The songs appeared, were fleshed out, lyrics written, structured. I got some inspirations for arrangement, recorded the song, mixed, mastered, and uploaded it to my bandcamp page.
New day, repeat.
In these strange times, a Corona-lockdown going on where I live right now, many civil rights suspended by politicians as clueless as ourselves, stuck in a seemingly endless loop, “February Songs” was my distraction, my own pure escapism into creativity. My own personal loop.
Track List:
01 - So Far (Alt: YouTube)
02 - Straight At It (Alt: YouTube)
03 - One Chord (Alt: YouTube)
04 - Guarding the Spirits (Alt: YouTube)
05 - Ladder to the Moon (Alt: YouTube)
06 - Phantom Pain (Alt: YouTube)
07 - The End of the World (Alt: YouTube)
08 - Midnight Song (Alt: YouTube)
09 - No Apologies (Alt: YouTube)
10 - And Life Itself (Alt: YouTube)
11 - What Holds the World Together? (Alt: YouTube)
12 - Burning Bridges (Alt: YouTube)
13 - Imaginary Conversations (Alt: YouTube)
14 - Fast Forward (Alt: YouTube)
15 - Stripe (Alt: YouTube)
16 - Sleeping Dogs (Alt: YouTube)
17 - In Our Time (Alt: YouTube)
18 - I Might Fall In Love With You Some Day (Alt: YouTube)
19 - The Price Of Love (Alt: YouTube)
20 - The Man With The 1000 Faces (Alt: YouTube)
21 - I Steal The Bride (Alt: YouTube)
22 - Stay, She Said (Alt: YouTube)
23 - Excuses, Excuses (Alt: YouTube)
24 - The Weekend (Alt: YouTube)
25 - Here’s To Lost Years (Alt: YouTube)
26 - Paradise Found (Alt: YouTube)
27 - Ghost Train (Alt: YouTube)
28 - February Songs (Alt: YouTube)