Built For Repeat
August 21, 2008
A snapshot for the evening, a half-stolen melody, a baby song tucked between the corners of other things happening all around me.Play: Remember
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We Make A Little History, Baby
August 12, 2008
Tonight I went to an open mike in London and saw a man get up and perform "The End Of The Innocence," one of my favorite songs when I was a kid. The guy gets up and says, I wrote this song a while ago, and Don Henley bought it off me to play on his album. And proceeds to sing.My landlady is giving an impromptu singing lesson downstairs, at midnight, to a man who sings Indian-inspired folk music.
I am working on a secret project for Amanda Palmer.
I just got back from Dublin, and Belfast, and Edinburgh-- to the Fringe Festival, which was fantastic-- saw lots of friends, had lots of wonderful late night conversations, and the very deep realization that I am happiest when my life is moving at some sort of trapeze-act-circus pace.
Tomorrow I meet with musicians to do something that may well end up looking like rehearsal. And the next day. And the day after that.
I am really excited. And exhausted. And happy. And well aware that I am well overdue in posting a new song, and all I can offer is: soon. Very soon.
I have plans for my next album and I haven't even made my first one yet. And ideas for a music video.
Do yourself a favor and go out on the internet and find yourself a copy of Nick Cave's The Ship Song. Play it late at night. Preferably while in someone's arms.
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The Beauties of Sleep
July 17, 2008
I slept a half an hour or so last night-- up till 8am, slept for a bit, then up and running again. It's that wonderful, devious devil of guarana: sneaks into my blood stream and decides, yes Olga, you must write music, and now, the dawn be damned!
...honestly? I don't mind.
Here's the minute version of Great Escape-- the whole song is written in my head already, but I like the idea of these truncated poems before the finished story appears:
Olga Nunes - Great Escape
Lots of stories to tell-- I danced with 2000 people in Trafalgar Square and am now a Guinness World Record Breaker. I also got a sad phone call telling me that my bees have been swallowed by my own granddaughter. (Though I'm told that, hopefully, the Olga bees may be reborn come next winter. I'll take that as a good omen.)
And, lastly, lastly, thanks to all of you who voted! Feather will be up, all finished and shiny, for your hot little hands. (And maybe, if I'm lucky, with a few extra surprises to go with it.) I'm going to Dublin next week to frolic and sing and generally soak up the music off the streets of Ireland, which will be wonderful. (And maybe enough to distract me from the sadness of a thousand tiny bees changing their names...)
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Sneaky Minutes
July 7, 2008
I took last week off from writing songs-- and then I cheated and wrote a song anyway. I'm not sure where to put this yet; I probably have to make a new section under Music for all the one-minute songs. But, until then! Here's the minute song for today! (I'll be putting up a full song by the end of this week, too.)Different Mistakes
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The Thirteen Minute Album
July 2, 2008
June is over! And with it, the Minute Minute Songs. The entire collection-- I'd say it's a thirteen minute album, but it clocks in at about eighteen minutes and 70 seconds -- can be listened to over at here, or alternately, you can download the entire not-really-but-almost-thirteen-minute-album here.I have learned so much from doing this-- staying up most nights till 6am, making so many mistakes, and having to roll with it. The little collection of songs has a lot of bits that are the equivalent of pencil sketches: eraser marks here, a note there about how to color it up a bit.
So what's the next step in the world?
Here's what I'm doing. I'm going to keep making Minute Minute songs, but now they will be part of the Minute Minute Incubator. It's where little baby songs crawl around, see if they're ready to stand on their little two feet. If they are, well, lucky them: I make them into full-grown real songs, just like they were visited by the blue fairy.
But I need some input: I've set up a poll. Let me know what your favorite songs are, from most to least, and every week I'll take one from the top of the list and turn it into a full-length song.
You can go vote here!
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The Place Of Dreams And What We Find There
Elaine sent me over this video, which is just fantastic. I won't spoil it for you, but it's got Bono and Roy Orbison, and a lovely, lovely story between the two.
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I Want An Army Of Gramophones
June 27, 2008
Hurrah! I have eleven of thirteen total wee baby songs done at Minute Minute Month! When June's over I'm going to put up a poll to figure out which songs should become real live flesh-and-blood-longer-than-a-minute songs-- so if you want to help me American-Idol-style vote for who gets to stay and who gets booted from the little song stage, pretty please sign up for my mailing list:
(Or add me on MySpace, or Facebook, I'll be posting there too.)
You can also hear the beginnings of a little ghost musical that I pitched in vocals for, over at Two Minutes. So, terribly, terribly fun. I have this vision that there will be a bunch of these, and then artists will make paintings based on it, and there will be an art show with gramophones on little tables, each playing a different song. (I mean, did you even realize how cheap gramophones are??)
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