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MP3 Alan Doyle - Places
10 MP3 Songs in this album (51:31) !
Related styles: Folk: Irish Contemporary, Rock: Acoustic, Solo Male Artist
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I''m an Irish singer songwriter living in Spain. I started writing songs at 15 years old and now perform a diverse repertoire of original music, spanning all my years as a writer and performer. These past two years probably rank among my most productive years of creativity, from the point of view of both writing and recording. In 2009 I finished recording my first LP “Places”. The songs from this record were written over the space of around eight years, and the ideas and concepts for the album have gone through various changes in that time. The earliest song written here was “Writers & Philosophers”, when I''d written that song I felt that it had brought my songwriting to a new level, it had a kind of maturity, an understanding of human feelings, it left my earlier garage band era stuff behind and I''d realised that I would be taking a new direction as a songwriter. I imagined that I would write a whole album of songs about love and all its sorrows, and I wrote a few of my best tunes around that time including “Somebody Told Me (Letter Home from San Francisco)” and “Lay Me in the Ground”. Two years later, deciding not to let life get boring, I packed my bags and came to Madrid. I wrote the song “This Old Town” as a “seeya later” to my hometown, Dublin. During my time in Spain, all its ups and downs included, I started to feel that rather than working on an album about love, I would have to explore many more sides of human feeling, I''d learnt a lot and had gained perspective, I wrote about what I saw, the people I met and the things that I felt. Songs like “Veracruz” and “Old Man Sittin in the Corner”, among others came about around this time. Years after “Writers & Philosopher”came “Don''t Shoot” the last song that I''d written for this record, and I felt that something had changed once again, I''d attained something new in my songwriting, this was the right time to put my songs together and make an album, to close one chapter in order to move onto the next. I had little experience with recording, but in any case I put together a low budget home studio and got down to work. I was, perhaps, a little conservative in the arrangements; being a recording artist was unfamiliar grounds for me, and I stuck to using just a couple of guitars with some bass and drums and a few simple backing vocals. I was, however, surprised and pleased with the results, the bareness of the instrumentation leaves space for the lyrics to breath, the feeling on the album is warm, but at the same time melancholy. And on that note, I reckon I''ll leave you to listen for yourself and make up your own mind.
Alan Doyle, 12 January 2010
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