Another songwriting post. This month’s calendar prompt was to write about what you’d do if you were rich and famous. Me and my husband are constantly joking about the ridiculous things we would do if we were despots, much of which involves hiring other artist to do stuff for us. Lately I’ve been trying to remember to run an experiment in which I vacuum every day to see if that has any effect on the amount of very long hair that gets attached to, well, everything, but I keep forgetting to do it. A day or two before I got...
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February’s prompt was to write a song about a first date. This was definitely outside my sphere as it’s been a very long time since I’ve been on a first date with someone. I’ve also never been on a blind date, but that is what this song turned into.
The series of events that lead to this one were that I posted January’s song a couple days late, so when I was uploading it, I saw the February prompt online, right before heading up to my studio. On the walk to the studio the prompt wiggled around in my brain....
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When I went to the Toronto Songwriting School Songwriting Retreat in November 2018 I discovered the joy of working with songwriting prompts. I’m very happy with the song I wrote that week-end from a prompt card (which I’m not playing live till I record and release my second album.)
After the retreat, we bought their Songwriting Calendar for 2019, which offers one prompt per month. I got 2 complete songs and one partial out of it (with a seed for a fourth) but there were many months that I didn’t really think about the prompt. In December I participated...
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New Shoes
September 13, 2019
This summer I released New Shoes, Kyla Tilley’s first full length solo album. Parts of it are older recordings that we salvaged from earlier attempts, and some of it was recorded more recently. The pictures on the front and back cover were taken at a songwriting retreat I attended in November 2018. It was very inspiring, and I think deserves it’s own post. The album was already recorded, so no retreat songs to be found here, but I packed appropriate shoes as it looked like it might be a nice spot to do a cover shoot, and...
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A number of years ago I composed and recorded some music to accompany a summer fashion show. The name of the show was Loose Summer as it featured loose, flowy, light summer clothes, but it was also meant as a reference to the idea of summer in Newfoundland, which is loose at best.
I wrote and recorded this in the basement of my Mother-in-law’s house over the course of a week. It’s a dug out basement, with French doors, lots of sunlight, and a nice hard concrete floor. Since I was travelling I had my Yamaha electric classical instead of...
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