Fawm #5 - le dernier Faume?

Hi all,
The latest FAWM post is up. It's called the Weavers of Ardragh and can be heard from the player to the right. You can get the song with the lyrics at the FAWM site here .It's a little of departure in terms of style. It's a proper ballad, folk type song. Ardragh is a small town near the Donegal coast in the northwest of Ireland. I saw archive footage a couple of weeks ago about three bachelor brothers who worked as weavers there all their lives. I wrote and recorded this all last night, the emphasis is more on the story and melody, there's not much groove to it. Just guitar and vocals. I hope you like it, I thoroughly enjoyed writing this one, it's my first song with some sort of explicit Irish content in it.
I have the bones of FAWM#6 done, but i'm not sure if i'll get time to record and upload it, the deadline is midnight tonight. Thanks again for all of your comments and e-mails they have been a really great boost. As always feel free to post here or e-mail.
Enjoy,
Gav.

Fawm #4

Hi all,
I've just finished writing and recording my fourth song for February Album Writing month. It's called "The chapel and the Stream" it's about an aged drifter and his wife arguing over who was responsible for them marrying. It's another bluesy/gospel type song with an emphasis on rythym and harmony. I've lost my objectivity as far as this one is concerned so I'm dependent on feedback.
It's posted on the music player to the right and also at my FAWM page where you can also get the lyrics. It was written as part of the week 3 challenge for fawm. The challenge was to write a duet or a song about something shown from two perspectives, hence the harmonies and shift in lyrical perspective in the second verse. So I think the song accomplishes it to a reasonable degree but whether or not it makes for good listening is another day's work. There are only 3 more days of FAWM left so I obviously won't be hitting the 14 track mark I may get one other song done.
As always, feel free to post your comments below, or e-mail etc.
Be good,
Gav.

P.S. I just discovered there are forums on FAWM where you can discuss different aspects of the FAWM experience. I found this in the "best unheard fawmers/fawm songs" forum by a songwriter called Maeflower:
"Man, it's been a while since I took the time to listen to people's tracks and I am BLOWN AWAY by the quality of what everyone's writing. Here's one that knocked the two-chord challenge out of the park...by Gavin Corley/Bureaudio called Whistling Windows. It's told from the point of view of an apartment building, and the harmonies are to die for!"
and yes i did go looking for my name in this forum.....

Fawm Song #3

Hi all,
Sorry for the delay with the latest Fawm song. As usual it is posted to the right. It's called whistling windows. It was a doozy to write i had to use only 2 chords as part of a weekly Fawm challenge. So my take on it was to do a kind of bluesy, rythymic song that's not too dependent on chord transitions. The blind boys of alabama do this kind of thing a lot to great effect, Hence my three part harmony. Let me know what you think of it. (harmonies or otherwise).
On another note i have started in Galway, i'm living out on Taylor's Hill a 15 minute walk from town. I have a jog on the prom at salthill this morning, the sea is pretty impressive even at it's greyest and angriest. There will be plenty of stuff to sing about by the looks of things. The city is overrun with musos and drunk students (it's ragweek), So there is a lot of debauchery and carousing. We say one guy on his knees having a full blown barking competition with some woman's dog yesterday. There are some good gigs on in the roisin dubh, yann tiersen (of amelie fame, happy dude to the right) is playing in april amongst others. I think i'm going to get along nicely here...
Hit me with your comments.
Be good,
Gav.

InterFAWM communiqué

Apologies for the delay with this post. I promised regular updates at least every monday but the life of an aspiring busker is a busy one full of ponderments and wonderings to be absorbed and 'crafted' into musical bite-sized mars bars only to be devoured by your good selves. I understand just how devastating it can be to be deprived of the bubbling genius that is my blog. I feel your pain.
Anyway... You will have to wait a little while for more musical posts. I'm between houses at the moment. I have a place in Galway but will be in Limerick for the next week so my recording gear is in the obvious location of Ennis. I'm still writing though, and plan to have another two songs done by friday. As soon as they are recorded i will post them here and at the FAWM.org website. I'm looking forward to finally making the move to the salty city.
I'm planning on writing a great little number about being bitter and single on account of the day that's it in it tomorrow. I'll call it the loneliest lemon in limerick. (thank you tabloids for some honest schooling in alliteration). Watch this space....

Fawm Song #2

Hi all,
My second Fawm song is ready. It's called "Worry" it's all about being an anxious individual, (i have some first hand experience at this, it's all part of my 'expect the worst, hope for the best' dictum). At this stage i should really have 3.5 songs done if i want to meet the 14 track target. Nevertheless I took my time with it.
The lyrics were hard enough work on this one, the melody lends itself to easy singing so i was very tempted to mouth random words or whistle but i eventually managed to sit down and write some coherent verses. The guitar is an attempt at old hobo style tabaccy spittin' finger picken. It meanders along at a nice pace. It's great fun to play and sing this song. Have a listen and post your comments.
Thanks for all your comments (posted or otherwise) about the previous song. I'm getting a great kick from them. Again, you can get the lyrics and song here also.
Lyrically yours(?)
Gav.

FAWM Song #1

I'll be brief. I have posted my first song in this FAWM escapade i was telling you about. You can download it from the player to the left. This weeks theme was 'colour' (appropriately abstract as you can see). So i stepped up to the plate and wrote a song about being seduced by a woman with wine (red water) in spite of mama's best efforts. I would appreciate some posts if you have it in you. Fawm #2 is nearly finished but needs to be recorded and polished. You have been a wonderful audience and i have been....
audibly yours,
Gav.

p.s. you can get lyrics and song here.