Visit my website,
fronzarp.com
Hey there lovers, this week I have such a simple offering for you that it could almost called a 'ditty', but for it's lack of resemblance to anything so light-hearted as the word 'ditty' would suggest. A self-destructive love song... I love you so let the things which would destroy aim their attacks at me instead and so I would prove my love and keep you safe. All the stark drama of a Tolstoy romance, if only I'd included more frozen Russian women.
A relatively simple arrangement, though it evolved over several different recordings of the song, starting with one based largely on percussion and a few chords sprinkled through the choruses and then finally pared-back further and further to give the melody more space until it really became very sparse. Hilarious in a way, because some of you may remember a live recording of this song floating around where that original arrangement didn't sound so different (the song had only been written 2 days prior to the recording). As with many things in life, sometimes we start out somewhere, take long-winded and complicated diversion and then come back to the place we started.
On the topic of which, “Hello Brisbane”... it's been a while but I am back in you. I forsook you two years ago but have now returned with a 12 hour drive which, though mostly rather dull, was punctuated by one mild near-death experience in which the Reaper (or one of his slightly more jovial harbingers, who through shocking prank serves to remind of death presence) rode a barrel off the side of a truck that bounced all around my car without hitting it (somewhat miraculously).
And there it is again, morbidity (a barrel riding Grim Reaper) against the picturesque (the Australian bush setting of the drive), as with the theme of this weeks song. I suppose it could be argued that this is a regular tool of writing (as with my Tolstoy example) and maybe I'm just looking at it now with the eyes of someone who has been trawling backwards and forwards through his own work for the last couple of months with obsessive regularity.
As always, buy from the link above, or I'll send it to you for FREE if you it share with 3 friends (and include my email
info@fronzarp.com in the CC window so I know you've done it)
Do svidaniya!