The past year has had Sky Bishop worked off her feet. Whilst in lockdown she embarked on a new project; recording live performances of her songs on her acoustic piano. A task, she says, most have little insight into.
”If people only knew the bitter attitudes of some toward recording acoustic piano and vocals simultaneously, you’d think it’d never been done before. One thing I’ve learned this year is that most people, these days, have no idea about the piano recording lineage. It falls to nerds like me to change that.”
A long time lover of digital pianos Sky Bishop has been drawn back to acoustic pianos, the cornerstone of her music. Determined more than ever to bring back wisdom from the old ways both musically and spiritually.
“2020 shon a spotlight on human selfishness. This is a time to take stock. Or our planet will reject us. If humans are to make it to the next century we all must learn from the past. Soak in the old time wisdom. For me that manifests musically.”
Nov 1 2021
A new troupe of songs have started whispering in my ear. All at varying states of completion thus far. They accompanied me in hibernation through 2020 and now is their time to talk. Each of them feel different in personality…
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Oct 31 2021
On the evening of Halloween ten years ago today this song was written. Semi-unintentionally I might add. I was dicking about at the piano, playing around with this 3/4 intro thing, singing nonsense. Quickly it turned from less of a…
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Jan 17 2021
As of right now I’m in rehearsal mode getting a collection of songs ready to perform for a live in lockdown set. I’ve decided to go ‘full on’ with sound quality and production. It’s been WAY TOO LONG getting any…
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Nov 5 2020
The Wawalak sisters are a part of Aboriginal Dreamtime culture. The story has regional variations with each following a similar narrative of two sisters roaming unfamiliar territory. One sister is pregnant, they stop to rest near water. The pregnant sister…
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Oct 21 2020
This song came on thick and fast. The ingredients collected on a street corner without me completely realising it was happening. Into the song cauldron went:
Dolphins
Sunshine
Sandy beaches
Deja vu
Days Ahead is…
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Oct 4 2020
This is the first entry in a series taking a beyond the veil style look at the songs.
Songwriting is difficult to talk about because to a large degree I feel the songs write themselves. In this manner my…
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Sep 15 2020
Spectral Carnivores was released in January 2019, practically a year before COVID-19 changed the way we live. With the theme of the album being death, both literal and metaphoric, I talked about the human species closing in on itself. Obviously…
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Dec 7 2019
A couple of months back I played a Brodmann piano at a few dance recitals. That piano left a big impression on me.
Brodmann is a name I’ve heard great things about and now I understand why. They have…
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Dec 3 2019
There’s a lot of songs and song ideas that are discarded the moment I write them. If I don’t completely love something, it’s gone. This might sound destructive, but actually it’s constructive. It keeps the passion for music alive and…
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Aug 29 2019
Bringing together a collection of classical works isn’t without its challenges. Where to begin and what to include? Some very clear pieces made themselves known early on.
Fantasie Impromptu
Certainly one of the most evocative piano pieces…
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Jan 25 2019
Sometimes there are moments in a songwriter's world when the question beckons "Why haven't I released this?"
Well, Daphrie Lane, I suppose, is one of those moments, sort of. Originally I wrote the song with the lyrics and…
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Jan 23 2019
...and a warm welcome!
New year, new habit – Blogging – *gasp*
This blog idea started way back in 2012. It was called 'The Desert' for a little while, and mostly contained lyrical snippets and random things…
Read more“The songs are driven by a central emotion. The music comes first, that’s the emotion, the first language, and it’s the music which reveals the lyrics, never the other way around for me.” - Sky Bishop on songwriting.