Saturday, 20 August 2011

Icarus hiding # 1

hiding...
A guitar is a great thing to hide behind in troubled times. With wars going on around the world, and riots and all kinds of bad things I can just sit and strum away in my kitchen. And I have a set a plan to finish all of the songs I started this year - which is about twelve, all in need of lyrics. Note to self, the hush that is silence opens the door to music. I am off to quiet Belgium this weekend and there I will sit with pad and pencil and scrawl spider-like notes over notes and strumming chords and bottle-neck slides, in secret, hiding behind one of my guitars or mandolins... maybe thinking about Maria Elena: