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The best part about loading out after last Sunday’s show was knowing that we have another show just around the corner! This time it is with a fellow local Ithaca band, Powder the Moon, featuring music by our good friend, Gabe Tavares. For anyone interested, you can listen to his music here: https://www.facebook.com/GabeTavares/app_2405167945
Having a show to look forward to on the calendar makes my days leading up to it feel so sweet 🙂
At our last show, my camera died while were playing, so hopefully I will get some good video from this one to share!
Well I started out with a fresh new session, but a little dip in the visual art of all distracted me!
I really used to think that playing music at home in the privacy of my comfortable room was the best feeling ever. If you met me just two years ago, I probably wouldn’t even admit that I played music and not ever would I want to do it in front of anybody! But now we have a show coming up this Sunday at the Chapter House in Ithaca NY, and a cannot wait to play on stage. I love hearing our music wildly fill the air in a large dimly lit room and I love how fast the songs seem to fly by in front of a crowd. It makes me so happy when my friends come to support us and I literally feel butterflies when I meet new people who enjoy what they hear.
At some point between two years ago and now, I realized my fear of playing live stemmed from self-consciousness about the possibility of making mistakes, or making a fool out of myself in front of others. One day something hit me on the head and I thought, “Wait a minute, why should I deprive myself of a new experience because of fear of what others might think?!? That is the dumbest thing ever!” Today I believe sharing songs through live performance is one of the most rewarding facets of being a musician.
If any new musicians out there who haven’t yet played for an audience read this, I encourage you to go to an open mic or book a show! If you’re waiting for the right time or the perfect song or the best crowd, throw those notions out the window! That feeling you get when you’re performing will be worth it. 🙂
So genius could strike at any moment, or a light bulb can suddenly flash on in your head, but don’t just wait for the ideas to come. Seek out inspiration, listen to everything around you, be a sponge and soak it all in! Sometimes inspiration can come from the funniest things. Like at work in meetings, on the bus talking to a stranger, waiting in line at the grocery store, the list goes on and on. I love it when my friends use silly expressions and cheesy metaphors because it gets my mind spinning with words. Be a sponge all day long and you’ll fall in love with the littlest things! 🙂
Here are the lyrics to our recently released song, Confluence of Anomalies!
Verse 1
Confluence of anomalies
Weather man explain to me
I couldn’t sleep last night
Cold air in my window tight
Verse 2
Boy you’ve got a lot of nerve
Climbing up your learning curve
World looks rough from here
And all it took to get you there
(Repeat)
Chorus
From a satellite
A sea of lights
Giving you away
And there are no lines
In real life
Dressing up the day
Verse 3
Run business as usual
Isn’t it unusual
So hard to break a trend
Even with an incentive
Verse 4
Weather knows no boundaries
Latitude complexities
Try to draw relationships
All this based on estimates
Chorus
From a satellite
A sea of lights
Giving you away
And there are no lines
In real life
Dressing up the day
And it looks so small from here
What a shaky sphere
Only currencies of lights
Giving you away
(repeat 3x)
And it looks so small from here
What a shaky sphere
Only currencies of lights
And we’re all here
The end!
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