Man, it has been quite awhile since I’ve written a proper blog, and for anybody who enjoys reading these I do apologize for that. I assume there may be only one or two of you out there that the last sentence pertains to, and I’m probably related to you, but nonetheless, I never meant to fall off the grid this long. At least the reason for it mainly has to do with being so busy creating music! Eric and I have been putting in some serious work on our album, and having some serious fun, and getting some pretty serious results that Sirius radio may want to transmit to Sirius Black. What does all of this mean? That we are sponsored by the word “serious…” But seriously, our second album is sounding very good so far, and when I just burned a CD the other day of the songs we have in the works I couldn’t believe it was already at ten songs! What’s kind of crazy is that we still have a lot more we’ve talked about doing for the album that we haven’t even started yet, so we are going to have too many songs… I guess this is good though cause it means we can take the 11 or 12 worst ones, put them on our album, and then sell the rest to Katy Perry and Miley Cyrus. Anyway, the point is that there is lots of new music happening, and it is all very inspiring, and we can’t wait to share with the world! The album is realistically a few months away still from release, but just know that we are working hard on it, trying to give you something you will love and be excited about.
And on that note, I want to share a song I just discovered that is very inspiring to me right now. It is not often that new music comes along, especially something mainstream on the radio, that hits me in a good way like a ton of bricks. I was driving last night and caught half of a song that kind of tripped me out. I was so intrigued by the melody, and even more so the phrasing, of the chorus, and just the whole sound and production of the song struck me as very unusual for something current. When I got to my friend’s house I asked him if he knew the song, which I proceeded to sing to him since I had no idea who or what it was. He had no idea either, but thanks to the wonderful world wide web (it should have four w’s) it didn’t take long to find the track: Gotye, “Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra).” We downloaded it and then sat in silence as we both listened to the song in its entirety on my friend’s good speakers, and wow… I mean, whoa…seriously good. I checked out the song again this evening on YouTube, and after hearing it again and watching the video I am hooked. There are so many things about this song that inspire me! First off the production is perfect for it, and the instrumentation and reverbs on everything create such a cool mood. Then you have the tone and expressiveness of the vocals being so intimate and raw, and emotive. The lyrics are great as well! It’s kind of incredible how someone can take the theme of a relationship ending and things being bad, which has been sung about SO many times, but make it potent, poignant, and non-cliche, which is not easy to do at all in my opinion. Then there is the melody, which is so simple, but so beautiful, and which gets really creative with the choruses. I’m amazed how there are only twelve notes in Western music, yet somebody can still arrange them in such a way that it sounds original and exciting. Based upon the number of YouTube views and the very unusual number of “likes” and comments I got on my Facebook thread about this song I am not the only one inspired and excited about Gotye. Whether you are already familiar with this song or not I want to share it here because it’s the first song to come out in a long time to make me feel like this. Isn’t it awesome being excited about music? I’m also going to attach an epic cover of this song because I think it is way worth taking the time to stop and watch; and as if I wasn’t already pumped up enough about the Gotye song, this cover made me feel really, REALLY good inside about life, about music, about being human… There is power in this music. Enjoy…
- Chavez
