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Wes Martin
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Wes Martin, I write songs and paint. Not at the same time.
I wrote a song per week in '11 as Ukuleleboy (despite rarely using one, I know!!). I still write and record songs, annd post them on here. Hope you enjoy listening.
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Going To The Mountain(Wk60/104)
Mar 1, 201500:03:17Tap to summarizeThis weeks tune is quite upbeat for me. Its a departure from piano and back to the guitar. Superficially its quite upbeat, its got spikes though. Hope you enjoy.
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I Thought The Earth Remembered Me (Wk59/104)
Feb 21, 201500:02:19Tap to summarizeSleeping out in a forest, next to the earth, can be a simultaneously beautiful and terrifying experience. In Winter the nights are so long, cold, and the mornings quiet, free of birdsong. In summer, the rains can fool us, make us weary..heats dry our skins, bring a thirst. Despite these things, when that moment comes to rest on the earth, we are at one with nature, and with ourselves. Lying alone, in the wild, exposed, returned, can deliver questions and answers like no other experience can. Washing in and out of sleep, time upon time, minute by minute. All is seen. The title of this comes from the following poem by Mary Oliver.... Sleeping In The Forest I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the riverbed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths among the branches of the perfect trees. All night I heard the small kingdoms breathing around me, the insects, and the birds who do their work in the darkness. All night I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling with a luminous doom. By morning I had vanished at least a dozen times into something better. - Mary Oliver Image by Casper David Friedrich
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Nothing Is Real (Wk58/104)
Feb 12, 201500:02:34Tap to summarizeWeek 6, and this one is about being a little offensive, and sometimes provocative on social media. Its like a form of tourettes, sometimes I find myself saying all the bad things.
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Son (Wk57/104)
Feb 5, 201500:03:52Tap to summarizeOk, another rather downbeat offering. I have two sons, and despite them being fully engaged with and enjoying life, I sometimes despair for what could be their future. Anyhow, I'm sure they will thrive. This song is about these anxieties of mine
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Drift(Wk56/104)
Jan 31, 201500:03:13Tap to summarizeWeek four. I'm creating and recording a sound piece every week for a year (again). This is about drift, the snow, the sea, the wave, clouds, the body.
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Clearing(Wk55/104)
Jan 22, 201500:03:12Tap to summarizeWeek 3, a song, sung, about finding space amidst the clutter of life
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Brightness Falls. (Wk54/104)
Jan 15, 201500:02:33Tap to summarizeWeek two, round two of my weekly noise project '15. Another piano instrumental. I love introducing dissonance, ever so slightly into the mix, its there. This piece is about a shift in states, a flux.
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There Are No Pieces. (Wk53/104)
Jan 8, 201500:02:12Tap to summarizeA short piece. Instrumental.
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Tail Lights
Nov 18, 201400:01:38Tap to summarizeA simple, short song about final letting goes and endings. Tail lights Peering like monsters Against the night Goodbye, Our time has come To an end, now Silence, Speaks to a future, We never had. So help me, My heart is caught, And it needs to be free x2
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To The Dark
Nov 11, 201400:02:24Tap to summarizeI've not posted on here in such a long time. This is one of many tunes written from the shadows, from a place of reflection and loss. Hope you enjoy
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