In The Studio Again....

Guitar, Pen & Paper...Ready, Steady, Go!

With the sound of singing birds in the air and undoubtedly, Spring in full flight, it's back to the grindstone, the world of song making. Anyone can write a song, but not everyone can write a good song, and therein lies the challenge. So who decides what reverberates as a good song? The listener of course. Albeit the listener is one of the most subjective entities that exist, the songwriter tries somewhat in earnest to literally strike a chord, a fellowship with other humans who would share there passion for the sounds, melodies and instrumentation they have lovingly orchestrated and shared.

In the end the songwriter can only write for themselves, after all they are the first ones to audition a new song and for a singer\songwriter that is the first and only audience to gauge what is good, what is bad, what to develop and what to throw in the trash.

So with this in mind I step out again to try to write the best songs I can, always living in the hope that more than just me will like them. For me it's not about money, not that I've amassed any, that only ruins things, stops the natural flow and side tracks from what is important.... the music!

My thinking this time was to challenge myself, to write in a genre of music that for me is like sitting in a church congregation, on hard wooden pews, leaving nothing but squirming and shuffling around in the quest for comfort. So what genre am I talking about? Pop.

So writing is in full swing, two songs completed, one nearly and another tune literally only written down in my head. I will release a four to five track EP, as yet untitled, in late June 2015 and trust, that as penned above, trust that others will find the songs have merit, merit enough to listen to them, hopefully more than once.

Here's a little 60 sec teaser of one of the new songs...

https://soundcloud.com/salterszo/let-it-go