Lu and her guitar
Hi, my name is Lu and I'll be posting covers and original music on this blog. I'm 21 years old and I'm studying to be an English-Spanish translator. I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina. You can also check my comics at lucomics.
Covers
Original songs
Inspiration
Open your mouth and say the words
You used to wish you heard
Back when you focused enough to be good
And if you’re gone
An endless false alarm
Just remember I loved you
As long as I could
I quit the carnival and moved next door, thought I’d had enough but I wanted more.
So now i’m sneaking out at night, I clean my face and shine my shoes and go where I’m not supposed to.
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Sounds (original song)
So, this is the song I wrote about yesterday. I’m pretty braindead at this time of the day/week, so the description won’t be as thorough as yesterday’s. I do remember, though, writing this around May or June of 2010, around the same time as “Up In A Cloud”. I never got around to actually recording it but I didn’t really forget about it either. I wish I still put as much time on songs as I used to, but this song was sort of the beginning of me not having enough time to sit down and work out arrangements and different melodies. Now it’s just me and my guitar, and even though it’s nice, I wish I could find time to write songs as I used to, too. And even some of the songs I managed to write in the past few months would probably be improved if I worked some harmonies out. But yeah, I think that’s why I never got around to recording this song: from then on, I just got a lot busier. But well, I’m trying to bring some of it back, even if I’m busy… you have to make time to do the things you love, right?
I do have a song from last year that I wrote with different melodies, arrangements and harmonies (the only one in the year, actually!), so it’d be nice to record that one next, wouldn’t it?
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Up In A Cloud (original song)
This is a song I wrote around April 2010. This is an interesting song ‘cause I actually took the inspiration for this from a drawing I made. I don’t really know where the drawing is, since I did it in my notebook during Literature class (yes, I didn’t use to pay much attention… still don’t), and I don’t know if I threw it away or what. This is also one of the few songs in which I wrote the music first and then the lyrics (it usually goes the other way around), I only had the bits about the clouds and the roses and then built the song around that. I don’t usually remember this much about how I wrote a song or why, but I do remember a lot about this one.
There’s another song I recorded today (I’ll post it tomorrow), which is called “Sounds”, and that song is sort of a progression from this one. It’s funny ‘cause I thought I had written “Sounds” first, but I checked my notes and no, I wrote this one first. But they are both about the same person, same subject and all… you know, when you’ve gotten your heart broken so many times and then you meet someone new, and you don’t really know if you want to go through that again. So I kind of consider them connected.
Anyway, I recorded both of those songs today and I tried to make them as raw as possible. Again, the music is all written by me in the piano but generated with the music notes into MIDI. I have an instrumental bit written for this song that I like, but I can never manage to fit it in. Maybe someday.
This is a text post.
Hello everyone. Or anyone. I don’t know why, but I’ve been very ~musically inspired lately, and it’s a shame that I don’t update this blog so often. The lack of reading and listening isn’t exactly pushing me to update it all the time, but, then again, how is anyone supposed to be interested if I don’t put enough effort?
I’m gonna try to put more time into this blog. I know that I won’t be able to update everyday with original songs and covers, but even posting songs that inspire me by other artists takes only a few minutes. I’m also gonna try and make things a bit more personal… You know, mostly I just post songs and not say much about it, and it’s a shame, because most times there is a story behind the songs (most times? There always is!) or something I’d like to say and I don’t end up doing it. But what’s the point of having an artistic blog in that case? I put a lot more time into my comics blog and I’d like to do the same here. Music has always been an outlet for me and it feels nice to share.
Anyway, don’t pay attention to my late night ramblings. Going to post a new song in a few minutes.
