Posts Tagged ‘music’
|Jake Clemons and A Fool in Love
Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
Otherwise known as ‘Jake Clemons – song in a Grantchester pub’, this is a beautiful live recording of Jake’s song “A Fool in Love”. Jake and I met this week on the UK leg of his European tour as he passed (and still passes) through Cambridge. We spent a couple of days filming music and stories all over the place. This is a particularly great one. Filmed at The Green Man Pub in Grantchester, UK Jake does a soulful version of his song “Fool in Love”.
We also talked music and spirituality for a documentary series I’ve started exploring what this means to different artists who sing, write and play from that deep well in the heart and soul that speaks with a naked, truthful and resonating voice. Keep your eyes peeled here for more on that.
Tags: a fool in love, clemons, deiren masterson, grantchester, grantchester meadows, it's on, jake clemons, music, relative strangers, spirituality, the green man, the green man pub
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Lollipops + Goose Bumps for 1 Day
Thursday, April 28th, 2011
This is a demo of a tune I wrote a year ago when I landed in the UK to join my wife. I haven’t done a serious recording of yet but I really love this tune. It makes me feel hopeful every time I play it. I still don’t have a final name for it. I called it “Carnival” at first just because that’s the feel it kind of gives me, a positive little piece or so it feels like. Maybe I’ll call it “Lollipops and Goose Bumps”. I’m open to suggestions.
Anyway, I want to record an interesting version of it on April 30th, and video the recording, as a possible upload to the CBCs 1 Day project, which is of course a bite on the Day in a Life YouTube thing that happened last year but appears worthy none the less. I’m sort of revising this as I go, I’ll just see what comes together for Saturday, but here’s a few ideas I have right now:
- Pipe Organ: There’s an amazing pipe organ at the local Cathedral in Cambridge that would be awesome to get at, but I’d have no idea how to operate it and I’d have to send out some special access prayers I’m sure, we’ll see about that one.
- Analogue Synths: Another idea is to do the recording with a really interesting musician/ technologist I met in Cambridge named Richard Atkinson, @AtkinsonRichard, who does some experimentation with analogue synths and electronics, or as his Twitter profile says, “Master of organs, synthesizers and string ensembles.” I’m sending that request out today so I’ll keep you posted.
- Random Piano, Keys and Locals via Twitter: And another possibility, which maybe the most fun, is to just simply throw it out there, digitally anyway, via Twitter, and see who might have a piano, organ or some kind of keyboard that they’d allow me to come over and play for about 15 minutes. It would be cool to see what type of instruments I might come across, people I might meet, houses I might enter, and whatever else.
Here’s the track. Let me know what you think. Oh and I’ve just officially renamed it as a demo to “Lollipops and Goose Bumps”:
Music by Deiren Masterson © Deiren Masterson 2010 All rights reserved.
Tags: 1 day, cambridge, cbc, deiren masterson, music, relative strangers
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How the World Has Grown
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
An ode to modern times, the credit crunch, societal greed and the madness that’s driven western society to the point where we’re now classifying a massive section of the population whose buying power had created our ostentatious wealth as “The New Poor”. If the western middle class is history then this is an ode to what I believe were some of the best and worst of the middle class fragments, philosophies and traces that I absorbed, growing up in a time of unprecedented wealth and prosperity in the land of North America.
Special thanks to Open Source Cinema for access to much of the great archive footage.
UPDATE APRIL 6, 2011: Sadly I see that Open Source Cinema is presently offline but that likely has something to do with Brett Gaylor (who set up Open Source Cinema) being involved in the new amazing project Mozilla Drumbeat: Web Made Movies which I’ve just discovered and can’t wait to get my hands into. Geez I fell behind the times. Some serious catching up to do.
By the way, I penned this song a month before a faulty Honda air bag deployed and blew loads of shrapnel into my right arm. I received the recall letter for the airbag in this ten year old car in the mail, one month after my accident and surgeries. I’ve since recovered and can still thankfully tinkle on the 88 keys, with my nimble fingers of course.
How The World Has Grown
words + music by Deiren Masterson
I was born
In the 1970s
I believed in Big Bird
And Joanie Loved Chachi
And the life that came my way
Was pretty damn easy
Oh Mama, how the world has grown
To keep on changing just about everything we had known
Shopping malls
All those pretty things
If I can’t buy my way to heaven
At least I’d bring some things
And the greed that shook the day
For the anger that it brings
Oh Mama, how the world has grown
To keep on changing just about everything we had known
The liars den
How the hell’d it get so big
Fairwell to ol’ mass media
Control ain’t what you think
Live to breathe another day
In the hope that it will bring
Oh Mama, how the world has grown
To keep on changing just about everything we had known
Tags: big bird, capitalism, credit crunch, deiren, foreclosure, george bailey, global financial crisis 2008, it's a wonderful life, jimmy stewart, masterson, michael moore, mortgage crisis, mr. potter, music, relative strangers, sesame street
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I Ain’t No Francis of Assisi But The Birds They Sing With Me – “Butterfly”
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
If you listen closely the duet starts at 1:10 min.
I wasn’t really aware of it at the time but I was actually singing a duet, with a wee little song bird who decided to join in. For my two cents I think we make a nice duo, and I never even got his/her name. Oh well, I’m sure we’ll sing again.
This is a little diddy I wrote a while back when my friend was losing his Mom to cancer. My 91 year old uncle died last week. I sent this song out as an ode to his life, and all of us I guess for that matter. Life continues. Glad to have had a wee little song bird with me on that one.
BUTTERFLY
Words and Music by: Deiren Masterson
What have become of those days that we knew?
And all those memories that I have of you
They’ll come again love
A love once lived will always be
A part of me
Butterfly
What have become of those smiles that we shared?
And all the laughter, it is still there
It comes again love
Your dear life will always be
A part of me
Butterfly
What will become of those tears that were shed?
And all those regrets of things that were said
They’ll have their place love
A life once lived will always be
A part of me
Butterfly
Oh life, for such a powerful thing,
You keep on struggling
You’ve lived so long
My bet’s you keep on living
What takes the place of a life when it’s gone?
And all that space where you once belonged
It fills the air love
And that full space will always be
A part of me
Butterfly
What lives forever, we scream at the air
Forever will always be there
It comes again love
The love we’ve shared will always be
It’s you and me
We’re Butterflies
Tags: after life, birds, butterfly, deiren, francis of assisi, hope, life, music
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