![]() ![]() It’s like becoming a whole organism - not just playing just to play. What’s needed is an openness or an egolessness that avoids a need to play cool parts. Sometimes nobody hears anything, but if there’s an arrangement, it’s just because people hear it. We sit in a room together, holding our instruments, and we start really listening … and as we listen, we learn what to play. If there was a recipe we could make the songs feel great, but there’s nothing we can repeat. I bring the song and we put ourselves in a space. What’s the actual practice of nurturing like? Is it a passive sitting and waiting? Or do you put scaffolding around the growth as you cultivate a song? It’s more like being nurturers of a garden than builders of a construct. The textures are added by following instincts. It’s like feeling through the dark, feeling for magic. It’s less of a decision - it’s more just a natural process of nurturing something while it grows, to listen and attend to what the song is asking for and then allow the song to be. How do you decide which textures to put on songs? ![]() Your songs remind me of the way Van Gogh painted, with a lot of texture on the canvas. Melodies and lyrics occur at the same time. I always find sparks of inspiration through playing it … a chord progression, or something I want to play over and over. For me, guitar has always been my vessel the instrument that’s been the portal for me. ![]()
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