No Oceans Without Islands
Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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Original Concept:
All this traveling, over all this water...time to capture the vibes. This project will unify around the theme of nautical and island travel, with songs inspired (in part) by a 2024 songwriting workshop on a tall masted sailing ship in the Hebrides Islands, with ocean stops in Reunion, Madagascar, Iceland, New Zealand, Australia, and Singapore.
Artist Post-Game:
Mission accomplished, and within the standard guidelines as far as I can tell. I revised one song, "Your Shores Are Calling Me Home" by making significant edits to lyrics I had written a couple of years earlier. Similarly, I revised a song that in February I completed for a FAWM song challenge, and expanded the lyrics and the instrumental break for InCoAlMo. Finally, my sole instrumental was also recorded in February for FAWM and fit my concept album for March so I included that as well (Dream Galloping in Donegal). There are a couple of new (to me) sonic experiments this time around and I suppose they offer some contrast and texture.