A sombre single ‘track’.... I see it as a sung rhythmic short story more than a relentless ‘long’ song. A dance story.
This is a home made recording, a Work in Progress....
It’s called ’The Best In Us’ -(Getting Used To Quarantine)
All Birds singing Recorded in The Scottish Borders.
I made the song-dancestory in March after realising I had the time... when all my touring work was cancelled.
And then I recorded it couple of weeks ago.
This is a home made 'demo' recording, Work in Progress. sketch of a song written during the Corona Virus lock down Quarantine. Would have liked to add two more voices to sing and share different verses.
’The Best In Us’ -(Getting Used To Quarantine)
March-April 2020.
Music and Lyrics by Rory Mcleod.
Rory All Vocals
Harmonica
Guitar
Banjo
Bass Harmonica
Chinese Bell
Percussion.
Drum Loops Borrowed.
Birds are fully paid up MU members!
Engineered and Mixed by Rory
I cobbled together a video in 2020 to go with my song using old photos and footage I took on my phone during lockdown.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p96HAEcJbEo
After recording and abandoning The song for a while. Returning I was surprised to realise the gloom that was here but...there’s hope too... always that yearning…
by now we’re fed up with hearing about lockdown
It’s changing us...
In good and bad ways...
I wanted to sing about it...
There are some corpses…in the song, as there have been many around the world.
And some yearning….
and perhaps there's a silver lining....for some who have not lost loved ones.
In a way to understand life we need to know death and loss…maybe it can help because it’s an inquiry into the nature of existence.
A song story I made... or it made me and this story is making us... I guess that’s why...among many other reasons...why some people whittle and carve, knit, cook or paint or.... here’s to the exhausted front line workers, nurses doctors and carers. X
I promise to release a much happier..more melodic, less gloomy less indignant song next month”
released April 15, 2020
Rory Mcleod