Episode 71-Everybody Teaches Somebody Something

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Hello listeners. This weeks song was written to honour the memory of a great lady, my ex-mother in law, (I guess, but that's a dumb label that does her no justice), Helen Biscoe. This tune is about her example to me as a person who went through a ridiculous amount of horrible stuff but stayed positive and loved people really well, especially my two boys, her grandkids. She also was really encouraging to me, even when she took the place of an ex-mother in law and I wasn't really in her family anymore aside from through my connection through the kids. The second last line; "dirty old river" is a reference to the Kinks song Waterloo Sunset, we both loved the Kinks, she bought me one of their CD's for my birthday and I remember when me and my then wife lived with her, saving money for a deposit on a home, we chucked it on once and all had a bit of a sing and a dance. This song in no way explains the full extent of who she was, but it explains how she encouraged me and what a great example she was and talks about her love for my kids. I hope you like it anyways, and that it shows at least a bit of how great she was.

Episode 70-Catch & Release

 

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Hello listeners. This weeks song is about a fictional character, Dom Hemmingway, played by Jude Law in a movie of the same name, written by Richard Sheppard and ,I think, bloody great. I recommend it if you want to see Jude Law being a hilarious hard core criminal. The song kind of takes what I got from that character and abstractly extrapolates from there. Hope you like it anyways, and thanks for listening.

Episode 69-Hooray For Monogamy

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Hello Listeners. This weeks tune is a rare example of me trying to actually sound like something specific, namely an old timey uke tune, I found some old timey sounding chords, strung them together and put some old timey, (I hope), sounding melody-ness with the singing and such over the top. The song is about the perils of non-monogamy, the way that a whole lot of people step into each others bodies like it was nothing and step out the same way, whereas for me, I think it should be something, monogamy is a good idea I think, wise and safe. Also, ukulele's are the best, I recommend you go buy one if you have even the slightest interest because they're super fun.

Episode 68-The Mill & The Wheel

 

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Hello listeners. This weeks song is all about the wide road, the easy and the usual way, and how it'll destroy you if you let it. That's my perspective/experience anyways. As almost always it's also a bit abstract and I can't really explain-ish, it is what it is, hopefully it's a good listen anyways. Thanks for your time.

Episode 67-Grown Ups

 

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Hello listeners. This weeks tune is another Mandolin one, it's a new toy I guess, it wants to be played. It's about I'm not entirely sure what, but possibly the uncertainty of becoming an adult person, the way other adult people seem to have it down and you feel like you're barely a quarter of the way there sometimes, (I do anyway), and doing stupid things because your human. I guess that's it, probably some other things too, it's ambiguous, very self deprecating also. I like the word Harlequin as a way of describing the person in this situation, a mute clown, it seems appropriate.

Thanks for you time as always and there'll be more next week.

Episode 66-Daylight

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This weeks tune was written on a Mandolin, my Mandolin, a brand new lovely sounding Mandolin, (yep), anyways, it's my first time playing one so it sounds a little like a guy who doesn't know much about Mandolins but not to the extent that I'll hide the results. This weeks tune is all about a memory that came back to me recently of lying in bed as a tiny person while the street outside was being used as a cricket pitch by a bunch of kids and their parents, hearing it and feeling it and being warm and legs up in the air and that being a great thing.

Thanks for listening.

Episode 65-Shame

 

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Hello listeners. This weeks song is real minimal, it's a simple sleepy kind of ambling song about love in a confronting, honest sense, love that understands the messed up-ness of you and is there to open it up and help you do something about it. I'm speaking spiritually but this is a human thing too, love from people who get you and protect you from yourself, that kinda thing. Hope it's a nice listen anyways, it's really rough, a bit scratchy round the edges, but it is what it is. Like I've said, this podcast is where I broadcast my songs as they come, in their original state, simple as possible, (sometimes I go nuts with odd sounds and layers and the like, but usually simplicity is the way), and if you go to my Bandcamp page that's where you can get a hold of the finished stuff: http://cesky.bandcamp.com/

At this point there's just the one album up there, but I'm workin' on more all the time.

Thanks for listening, I appreciate your time.