Episode 77-Boy

https://ia902301.us.archive.org/15/items/CeskyLivesEpisode77-boy/CLEP77-Boy.mp3

 

Hello Listeners, this week's tune doesn't need much explaining I think. It is what it is, I think it speaks for itself. I'd say it's possibly more literal in places than you'd think. But I'll let your brain decide it's own way through.

Thanks for your time, and your ears. Much appreciated.

Episode 76 - I Feel Like Winona Ryder

 

https://ia902305.us.archive.org/15/items/CeskyLivesEpisode76-iFeelLikeWinonaRyder/Clep76-iFeelLikeWinonaRyder.mp3

 

Hello Listeners, this weeks tune is a short simple song about when life is a bit slow, or when you are, despite whatever life is doing around you. It's part exaggeration, part truth, just something I'd literally been thinking for about a week before I wrote this, comparing myself to Winona Ryder in Reality Bites, which I've seen a couple times as a younger feller, great film. Many thanks to my brother and his wife for filling in some of my memory gaps on the plot so I could stick a couple more references in. Thanks for listening.

 

Episode 75-Box of Birds

https://ia902504.us.archive.org/22/items/CeskyLivesEpisode75-boxOfBirds/Clep75-boxOfBirds.mp3

Hello listeners. This weeks song comes from a saying that somebody said at work that I'd never heard before, you probably all have but I hadn't, so I looked up what it meant and built a song around it and around the idea of finding some kind of place in the world and running with it, loving people, doing your best and such, and also about life's imperfection, the way it fails to make sense quite often but this being kind of ok, and one of life's better qualities if you look at it from the right place. All a bit heavy I guess, but I was also just trying to make a nice calm tune, something slow and steady, synthy and simple. Hope you like it anyways. Thanks for listening.

Episode 74-Turn Me In

https://ia902504.us.archive.org/29/items/CeskyLivesEpisode74-turnMeIn/Clep74-turnMeIn.mp3

 

Hello listeners. This weeks tune took a couple late nights cause I broke my simplicity rule and got out all the midi stuff for fun, (keyboard, synthy type stuff, for anyone who doesn't know what midi is, and to be honest I don't entirely know my self). Anyways, it took a while, but it's really simple, really short, and kinda dark, but also not. Basically I went to a good buddies wedding recently and it was beautiful, the humanity, the dancing folks and the generations present and the whole marriage thing was great, but I was also having quite the severe, ( I think well hidden), attack of social anxiety, which I haven't had for ages but I guess a wedding involves an unusually large amount of new unfamiliar people. Despite this though, the beauty was still there, I got emotional, I felt glad to witness the love and such, and this is what this tune is about, as well as being about the fact that everybody has their issues and troubles and that in itself, though sad, can be a beautiful thing. Hope you like it anyways, the muffled intro/outro singing is from a phone recorded song idea that never took off, but sounded properly fuzz ridden and woeful for the purposes of this tune.

Thanks for listening, much appreciated.

Episode 73-Let Me Be

https://ia902500.us.archive.org/34/items/CeskyLivesEpisode73-letMeBe/Clep73-letMeBe.mp3

 

This weeks tune comes from a choice that I made today while I was writing this song, to go a little easier on myself, I started with the beat and the synth and the words were coming on all self loathing and the like, but then I thought, well that's dumb, come on feller, go easy on yourself. Self loathing is something most of us deal with at some point, and I sure have, but I've kind of left it behind of late, for the most part, as far as intention will take me anyways. The song's about being single too, and happy with that, I read something on the internet, one of those "secrets of happy people" things which are entirely made up by some one who read it someplace else I'm sure, but nevertheless, every now and then you see something like that and you think, well.. why not, tell me the secrets, one of them being that apparently happy people don't see relationships as where they get their meaning from, but as an extension to the meaning they already have on their lonesome. I agreed with this, and, like everyone probably, I've seen people put up with damaging crazy things to not be lonely.

So there you have it. Hope you enjoy the tune, and thanks for your time. Much appreciated.