I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how to play the songs without also singing. I forget how they progress. I don't think that any of them are verse, chorus, verse, and so on. They are not simple.
I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.
I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.
I have a recording that I did of instrumental songs.
The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, out of the blue, started singing. And the voice, you can hear how uncomfortable I am with it, and how terrified I am with it.
It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's invalid in the sense that we listen to the Strokes and try to sounds like them. I think that they are a good band.
I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.
Well, yeah, I wanted to resist the urge to thicken everything up with instrumentation, because I just felt like I was interested in seeing how the songs did on their own.
I am always trying to write.
People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on.
I give away CDs at shows if someone wants a CD but doesn't have any money. I wouldn't want to do that forever.
I would happy for someone to download my music.
I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.
I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.
I have writing songs on my own for about six years.
I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music.
I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.
I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.
I can understand someone not liking the voice or the songs.
I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp.
