FAWM Song 1: Banjimer Improvisation

[peteralway]

I made a thing! It's February, time for February Album Writing month, in which participants try to write 14 songs in 28 days. Words failed me this morning, so I cooked up an instrumental:

Banjimer Improvisation

Comments

[hsifyppah]

Oh, that's lovely! It sounds all ballad-y, something about constancy and longing and so forth.

[peteralway]

Gosh, thanks!

I was trying to make something that seemed cool musically and that worked with the distinctive sound of the banjimer.

And in retrospect, it seems odd that it hadn't occurred to me that the music might actually carry actual emotional content. I mean, I understand that good instrumental music has emotional content, and I wasn't like coldly constructing it out of musical theory ideas; I was playing what came to me. It's just that brains are weird.

And I'm delighted that it seemed to speak to you!