Madrid, Spain born indie-folk songwriter Daniel Caceres has traveled to Toronto for a year and stopped by the Song Talk Radio studios with some great folky songs. He’s played in bands back in Madrid but is now exploring writing songs on his own. Stuff we talked about download Daniel’s lyrics Daniel on Soundcloud Rhyme schemes …
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Brian Sasaki Returns: Exploring Olde Timey Jazz Swing
Brian Sasaki, a musical force of nature, swept into our little studio with three band members (Michael on bass, Stanley on violin, and Kyle on drums) and really rocked the joint. His energetic and all-out-there tunes hook you right from the start. Look Out the Window featured Brian on guitar and kazoo (check out Tomasz Sacha on …
The art of songwriting with The Sun Harmonic
Songtalk Radio welcomed multi-talented artist The Sun Harmonic (aka Kaleb Hikele) back to the studio for a second sharing of his song writing skills. “Born (I Have Awakened)” is a stream-of-consciousness, spiritual/traditional style a capella song that captures the losses we all endure as we grow up. “When the Well Runs Dry” switching from 4/4 to 2/4 and …
Mark Martyre writes melodic word pictures
Mark Martyre is a Canadian writer and musician. His prolific song writing has produced 3 full-length studio albums since 2012: Down, Record (2012), London (2013), and Red Letters (2014), as well as several live records, and bootlegs. His music and lyrics have garnered critical acclaim and attention both nationally and internationally. Mark is currently working …
Gary Duke: Pushing yourself to try new approaches
Drummer, App writer, UX designer, guitarist and songwriter Gary Duke returns to our show (he was one of our first way back when!) and talked about exploring micro-tunings and pushing himself to try new approaches to songwriting. Gary on Facebook VIZIKLIK: visual metronome Gary’s Lyrics Good Luck, Baby I feel the walls are closin’ …
Jenny Ritter brings a little Victoria to TDot
Jenny Ritter and her very cool guitarist Tyler Belluz entertained us with a rich variety of tunes all beautifully sung. She started writing in her early 20’s. Her first band – The Gruff – played for 10 years. Jenny currently leads two rock choirs in Victoria, BC. A History of Happiness was written in crisis. …
Songwriting Apps Review: Rhyme Genie, TuneSmith & Chordmate
In our first Apps Review Show, we take a look at Idolumic’s Rhyme Genie and Harmonic Sense’s Chordmate Apps. First up was Idolumic’s Rhyme Genie a fully cross platform (PC, Mac & iOS) program that boasts over 330,000 rhymes and more rhyme types than you’ve ever heard of. The desktop versions are brilliant and much better than any online rhyme …
Natural Progressions with Erin Ford
Erin Ford graced the Song Talk Radio studio to play some tunes from the upcoming release of her CD Natural Progression, a project 8 years in the making. We also chatted about: how her 10-piece band brings a collaborative element to her music seriously cool chord changes the use of vivid imagery in lyric writing …