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RE: Cave Recording - 'New' Music #3 - "Monday the Twentieth Blues in E minor"
dude so what is the story with the cave? Just a place out there somewhere that you are squatting in? It was already kind of done up inside or you have done some interior designing? I looked back through some of your older posts to try to get the story sorry if you have already gone over this :)
I do similar things as far as spouting out lyrics over music, improvising songs that mostly just fade away but occasionally stick on the wall and become a more concrete thing. Automatic writing is a cool idea, I usually do it the other way around (improv lyrics while singing and playing, and then write them down) but I can see how automatic writing could be a great tool to release the mind. Much love - Carl
Hey Carl, thanks for your great comment. I also sing 'automatic words' without having written them down to music that I've either been working with or just a jam I'm having. My primary focus for sharing like this is that I want to create the awareness for people that have been made to believe that writing songs is hard work, that hey, you can basically sing anything and sometimes with a bit more work or even just as it is, it can be a great song. And, like you say, sometimes it 'sticks on the wall' and other times it just blows away in the wind.
Well, I'm a long-term traveler street performer. I write blog updates on the blog there which give more background as to my present cave situation. But a long story short is that I followed a friend to Crete from Turkey (I'd never been to Crete and I thought, why not?). So here I am, I made it to Matala in the south where there are a lot of caves and some of them are old Roman Crypts. Some of them are purely natural cave formations and some have been dug out proper by hippies from the 60s and 70s. Other caves have archeological history. It's a limestone coast so there are a lot of natural cave like formations in the rocks and cliffs around Matala and the nearby areas.
A bunch of hippies lived in the caves around the Matala town area who were forced out by the dictatorship regime in Greece in the 70s? I really don't know but I got a quick run-down from someone more in the know. Those caves are currently fenced and 2 euros is charged for entry to see them (I sing adapted lyrics from a Joni Mitchell song, Big Yellow Taxi that includes this in the song). Joni Mitchell visited Matala in her hey day and even wrote a song about it. She assisted in making it a hippie hotspot. So since the 60s and 70s Matala's been a hippie hot spot and has attracted the colourful tribes of the world.
Presently it's more like a hippie themed tourist town but occasionally waves of hippies come through and inhabit for a time.
I have a good friend in a cave nearby who is a horticulture and permaculture expert, he is developing the dry earth around one of the caves he has been excavating for his own private use. I am also doing some work on and around the cave I am in.
I have lived in many different situations around the world including squats, cult farms and eco-villages. In Matala I've found a place I can call home for a while before I continue my endless nomadic journey.
All the best,
Monty