I keep a document with stimulus for songs - they might be concepts I'm interested in, quotes from things I've read or, most frequently,...

I have been a big fan of Kurt Elling's for most of my adult life, drawn mostly to his voice, the incredible range and control, the way he...

In September 2020 I did a second online course offered by Academia Oralitura called Analisys y Creacion de Canciones facilitated by Nano...

In September 2020 I did a music appreciation and songwriting course facilitated by the great Nano Stern. It was a fantastic opportunity...

While I was doing the decimas course one of the participants reached out to a couple of us suggesting we collaborate on a song. I...

Through late 2019 and early 2020 a number of large demonstrations occurred across Chile, protesting the extreme economic inequality which...

In 2020 Mari signed me up to an online decimas course as a birthday present. I'm sure I had been boring her to death with chatter about...

Strap yourself in, this is a long one . . . Around mid-2019 Ricky sent an instrumental to the group which was among the first few songs...

By this stage of 2020 I was in a zone of writing songs - I think I wrote 80% of the songs we went on to record between January and March...

My good friend Marco Lopez wrote an instrumental piece called "El Trabajador" way back in 2017 but I didn't hear it until early 2020. I...

I had a very short-lived (one gig) stint as a lead vocalist in a new band called Dos Tres. It was a bunch of guys I knew from Veneno...

This is one of the rare occasions when the music came to me before the words. The melody and time signature of the vocal section was the...

In 2019 I read a fantastic biography of Violeta Parra by Victor Herrero called "Después de vivir un siglo - una biografía de Violeta...

I wrote a bunch of songs in my teens and recorded a few with SONIDO for an album called Evolution in 1995. I kept writing words over the...

In the Uno De Dos post I claimed that it was the first song I wrote in a long time that kickstarted the flurry of activity through 2020...