Music Chemistry, it's a Wrap - Part 7
There is a magic in musical alchemy that is hard to define. Daniel asks us how we come up with our song ideas and who does what?
Click below for 5 min video soundbite of the long form radio show with Daniel and Mariella
Part 7 of our 5 min YouTube video, Peaceful Cacophony channel
One of the most famous writing duos and one I was aware of when I worked for BMI (Broadcast Music Inc) US music royalties, was that of Elton John and Bernie Taupin.
“Taupin and John were paired together by Liberty Records in 1967, after both responding to an ad in the music magazine NME. Taupin wrote the lyrics, and John wrote the music. Taupin writes the lyrics first and then John writes the melodies to them, which is how most of their songs are created.” - Britannica
That is completely the opposite of the way that David and I write. Of the eleven tracks we co-wrote over the lockdown in the summer of 2020, a couple were our own back catalogue. For the rest, the real magic flowed when a whisp of a thought was uttered by either of us and inspiration took hold. Spoiler alert: mind reading is definitely involved, does that give us an unfair advantage? :)
In the video short above, Daniel asks us how the writing frenzy happened and where we are now with our project, CORONASOMNIA. Musical chemistry cannot be explained, it either works with someone, or it doesn’t. We can create in various ways, either of us write lyrics or imagine the melody, tone and timbre of an idea. The other takes up the baton and moulds it further, until there is a fully formed rendition. Chocolate always helps of course…
David is the musician, as he is multi-talented and has years of professional experience. He builds the backbone of the tracks and adds his polish and panache to our particular brand of alt rock, doing all the production too. I’m drawn to more to lyric writing and a melody line will just pop into my head. Somehow a strange alchemy happens when I send him my ideas and he interprets them in fantastic ways that I could not have imagined, but sound perfect to me. So far, we’ve never had a dud idea that’s had to go in the waste paper basket. It just works.
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