Most of our planet is covered in the stuff.  A good portion of our bodies are made up of H₂O.  You don’t have to be told that water is important for us and our bodies. Like many things this is one detail of our lives that we think little about. Water is easily accessible and clean.

Clean water is hard to come by for a lot of people in the Global South. One particular country where this is true: Brazil.  There are countless indigenous villages that live off the Amazon River and suffer from water born diseases because the river, au naturale, is not as clean as you might think.  Operation Amazon is an organization who provides bio-sand water filters to aid in making clean and healthy water available to villages in the jungles of Amazonas.  You can learn much more here: CLEAN WATER.

The music that is used in the video (above link) was a song that Tyler and I wrote and recorded together. It was another challenge in song writing because we had constraints to work with.  When you write a song on your own the only limitations you have is yourself.  When writing music for a video there are a lot of things you have to keep in mind.

Most importantly, you do not want to have your music overshadow what is being watched. It is there to support what is being shared in the visual production.  The music must help emphasize the story line that is being played out.  It should add a whole other layer to the piece that wouldn’t have been experienced otherwise.  That alone is enough of a challenge to start with, outside of the other variables that come out of the initial constraints.  The other side of the coin is that the strong parameters help build a guide that aids in the construction of the music.

Either way, we did write and record an entire original track for Operation Amazon.  It turned out much better than I had anticipated.  Tyler loves creating layer after layer of sonic goodness when he records music, and so he is responsible for helping add much of the depth that the song has to offer.  My main contribution was the ch0rd progressions that everything is built upon, and we both provided our own particular skills in all the instruments that are heard in the song.  This is very typical of how Tyler and I operate together.

Please listen, enjoy and consider what you may or may not drink on a daily basis.

PeaceGraceLove

No, there has been creative outflow! Or something like it. Anyway, I have gone through a very amateur and tiring process of reworking how this site looks. I didn’t even have the presence of mind to take a screen shot of the way it looked beforehand. Either way, I think it looks a lot better now.

Well, from here I hope to be posting a piece a recorded music weekly and these will include piece a my own and music I have created with my good friend Tyler. I have a good back log of work that is available to share.  I do hope you enjoy and if you enjoy enough that you pass it along to someone you know.

PeaceGraceLove