North Americans are just plain silly about having a good time. Give them a holiday, or an event to commemorate, and off they go, to dress up, eat, drink, and party. Hey, they say, gimme any excuse and I'll prove that the Ancient Romans of c. 100 AD had the right idea with their tactic of … Continue reading Thinking about death, life and everything – Reaperman
My (our) song "All the Lines" is one of those that started out as just my personal point of view. But, as my co-writer points out to me all the time (!!), this, below, is the formula for producing a song: A PERSONAL POINT OF VIEW ➕ A RELATABLE VISION & NARRATIVE 🟰 A SONG … Continue reading A matter of delineation – There’s lines and there’s lines
My latest EP is called "Perfect You", the same as the title track. The album was written as a collaboration, and so any kudos for it is not only due to me. My collaborator prefers to remain anonymous, so when people listen to the tracks and go; "Where did THAT come from?", the answer is … Continue reading Perfection is in the mind of the beholder
(Or, the Long & The Short of It) Radio edits: - a song between 2 min. 50 seconds, and 3 min. 20 seconds long. Well, that's the ballpark - say, get it down to 3 minutes in total. There is a hardline discipline to cutting your favourite composition down to something that short, with an … Continue reading The Long Listen
On my new album, "Ticket to Mars", the fourth track is "The Great Wall". The Great Wall This song is about people separated by a wall - metaphorical or literal - and desperate to be together. They are bound to Earth as much as they are bound to places far from each other. So many … Continue reading Borders, separation, longing
Following the title track with the same name of my new album, "Ticket to Mars", I've released three more songs, starting with "Hello". Cōdae · Hello Mixing and mastering by Luke Garfield, Banana Llama Studios. Lead vocals by Ben Alexander. Hello - first contact The interesting thing about the alien in the lyrics, is that … Continue reading How DO you greet an alien from outer space?
Following the title track with the same name of my new album, "Ticket to Mars", I've released the next three songs: "Hello", "Head in the Stars", and "The Great Wall". All three are about the contrast between being stuck here on Earth, and travelling beyond the stars, perhaps even meeting an alien from another planet. … Continue reading Songs about meeting aliens, space travel and being stuck on Earth
I uploaded a song, Die On That Hill, to SoundCloud, and it's gone bonkers - 3,250 streams in 4 days (up to today, Feb. 5, 2024). This is unexpected and has never happened before. I mean that, as a complete unknown, just doing my own thing, I have had mostly zero streams per song. When … Continue reading Don’t ask me how this happened…
I've released the latest song on my album, "Howl", and it's called "Dreams May Come". I wrote it because I have had these incredibly real-feeling dreams of people who died many years ago - my brother, and my father. In my dreams, of course, they are not sick, or old, but in their prime. My … Continue reading Dreams so real, you think the people who you’re dreaming of aren’t dead
Track 3 on "Time Shift" The lyrics of this track are self-explanatory, even for someone who has never been on a mine site. When I wrote it, the lyrics were the easy parts. Expressing the ideas in music was a different challenge altogether. This is how I did it: I expressed the feeling of going … Continue reading “The Trembling Ground” – The sound of seismicity
