Friday 29 December 2017

THE LADY GETS A BOUQUET


The Lady of the Rocks gets a bouquet

 
And then almost disappears 




THE SEA MONSTER

Occasionally - as mentioned previously - I use a facility called Crowd Review on Reverbnation This lets you test what other people (chosen by the site) think about a song And on this most recent occasion I had chosen, against the advice of some who are familiar with my material, to try out the song All You Really Need is the Sea

And, as I have also said before, I find the most outrageous and even the most critical responses in no way discomforting They are inevitably interesting and often very amusing My main criticism relates to whoever chooses the listeners From some of the comments in the latest batch their interest was in hearing hip hop and rap tracks whilst my genre on this site is designated as Spoken Word

Leaving that aside: the most enjoyable response - which made me laugh most and provided me with the title for this post - came from a 60 year old woman  Some context is required

When I uploaded the song onto Reverbnation it was a mastered version and I had omitted to remove the word master from the title of the track  It could be that I was being careless or not wearing
glasses at the time - and it could be that the woman was not wearing hers either when she listened and wrote - and I quote:

‘The music was pretty in All You Really Need is the Sea Monster. I think the lyrics were meaningful. The singing was only OK and the tone of the voice was too light and not rich enough’

Now there were no monsters around when I was writing All You Really Need is the Sea but I was also taking photographs of rock formations on one of the superb beaches on Tiree  And, as I did with The Lady of the Rocks, I returned repeatedly to one which I referred to at the time as The Beast

Some may see nothing of what I saw in the photograph below but as I like whenever possible to include an image with a post, I remembered The Beast after reading the woman’s remarks
It changed in amazing ways depending on the light, the wind and the tides - but here it is: a loosely associated ‘monster’ in one of its many guises


More of The Lady of the Rocks from the same location can be seen at  https://sheilakcameron.bandcamp.com/track/the-lady-of-the-rocks

Monday 25 December 2017

OUT THERE SOMEWHERE - ON ENGLISH BAY

Several times each year I discover that some of my songs have been used for Keep Fit classes and Karaoke performances As yet I have no idea how this happens or what if anything I might have done to  help bring it about but I can say, based on the facts from PRS for Music, that the track which has recently topped the list has been Go On Then (Convince Me) 

And, in the process of sorting out which songs are on YouTube as lyric videos and considering which  one I might upload next, I chose this one
It can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcY7ZkPOxtM


The rather low key image benefits (for me anyway) from belonging to a photograph of English Bay Vancouver And more so because neither the boat nor the head of the swimmer in the water were observed at the time the photograph was taken Perhaps it also offsets some of the seriousness of the song

The words ‘out there somewhere’ which have been used in the title of the post - are from a line in the song

PS Unfortunately I had mistakenly opened up a new YouTube account for the song about the sea but once I had recovered from my foolishness I decided to make it my main account from now on  What to do about the previous account at Eepsylyrics (https://www.youtube.com/user/eepsylyrics) is under non urgent consideration

Sunday 24 December 2017

THE SEA - ON THE TUBE

The link below will take you to the lyric video of the song
All You Really Need is the Sea
youtu.be/6eWWBCc6ZPA
As the evening arrives and the sun goes away'
And knowing it will be back again tomorrow: Happy New Year everyone 

Thursday 21 December 2017

THREE WISE MEN - and NUMEROUS WOMEN

Well I think they are wise! And over the course of the year there have been more than three - but taking into consideration the recent review below from Blues Bunny, Iain Anderson playing my latest Wild Biscuit arranged track (twice) and the words from Ian D Hall about the spoken word double CD - I  am choosing them for a special mention

To do this is rather self congratulatory but I can almost feel comfortable about that as this is the Season of Goodwill
And more and many thanks are due to those who read this blog, who listen to my songs and particularly those who like what I do enough to keep encouraging me to keep doing it


The following link will take you to the song played by Iain Anderson on his Radio Scotland  program https://sheilakcameron.bandcamp.com/track/all-you-really-need-is-the-sea And the link to Iain Hall's comments can be found at http://www.liverpoolsoundandvision.co.uk/2017/09/16/sheila-k-cameron-the-unknowable-next-spoken-words-album-review/