7 Songs in 7 days..on substack

To celebrate the impending launch of my offering "SongBird Series" I have ONE HELL OF A MUSICAL SURPRISE for you all.....

Sep 13, 2023

Hello my beautiful Substack community, i hope you are doing so WELL! Life has been BIG for me and my little family the last few months. As some of you know (if you follow me on the instagramssss) this winter has been one FULL of gnarly sickness in my house alas we ARE ALIVE… Kind of haha

Before i JUMP into everything (its gonna be a BIG post i think) I just wanted to give you a bit of an overview heheh

Today i’m going to be sharing on the following:

A very brief LIFE update
Announcing my “7 in 7 on Substack”….and what that is…
Sharing a NEVER BEFORE HEARD OR RELEASED ORIGINAL SONG of mine “Reverence”

Without further ado LETS GET INTO IT!

LIFE LATELY…

As i mentioned above my house has beeb SICK…we’ve had both influenza A and B within the space of 5 weeks on-top of 4 other BRUTAL colds and throat infections that i’ve had over the past few months….let me tell you…IT’s ROCKED my fucking world, its been a bit of a dark night of the soul!

My body has felt so fragile and susceptible to anything and everything and the tole it took on my headspace for a HOT minute there was notttttttt cute. HOWEVER, we’ve taken action and i’ve JUST started seeing one of the most celebrated and accomplished naturopaths in australia and i’m beyond excited to really start healing my autoimmune and addressing the severe depletion and inflammation in my system! PUMPED is a bit of an understatment. (Thank god for my mumma who paid for the first BIGGGG session)

Quickly, on FINANCES something i don’t think a lot of “single income” families talk about is the FINANCIAL STRESS sickness can bring to a home. Cam is the main financial provider at home and he self employed. When he got sick…and was literally hospitalised overnight and then out of action for 3 weeks that reallllly put us in a tight spot money wise. If i’m honest we don’t have savings…we have really struggled to save anything with the increase in cost of living and me not working more then two days ect…Its been a big time BUT we survived and we are finally getting back on our feet!

IN SAYING THAT, musically and career wise LIFE has been REALLLLLLY good for me.

For the first time pretty much since becoming pregnant 3 years ago i’m working again and actually making an income of my own (albeit small). Something that i REALLY struggled with while pregnant, was having to completely financially rely on my husband and in all honesty I HATED IT. I was raised in a household that believed in being able to take care of oneself and being financially independent..thankyouuuu capitalism. So when i was forced to stop working due to a debilitating HG pregnancy and then a VERYYYY unsettled baby Ferg, my core values were challenged and my insecurities around relying on someone else were laid out bare on the table.

In hindsite i’m so grateful for that opportunity to have addressed that pretty unhealthy narrative BUT also I LOVE to work because my work IS my PASSION.

My passion is my ART and my art is my MUSIC… and i’m damnnnn good at creating music. So it feels fucking AMAZING to be doing that again!

And this brings me here, to you, today…excited to announce my “7 in 7 on substack”!!

NOW, What is this 7 in 7?

welllll my friend i’m glad you asked!

So back in 2020, justtttt before “miss COVID” came to town…i began writing songs on commission for people, brands, podcasts, events ect. The offering was called “Love Notes”. It was one of the most creatively fertile years of my life, in 18 months i wrote over 40 commission pieces and FK were they amazing.

I still regularly go back and listen to them and for SOOO long wished i could share them with you!!

I started this offering because we were living in the bus with intention of travelling around Australia. Being able to write while travelling was a DREAM of mine…BUT we all know what 2020 became sooooo bus life didn’t last as long as we wanted HOWEVER the song writing did!

I literally used to power my equipment in the bus with a portable battery….so i didn’t drain all the power from our bus hahaha

The reason why i’m telling you this is BECAUSEEEE as part of the contract i had my clients sign, one of the stipulations was that after 3 years i was allowed to release them in whatever way i saw fit…and BABYYYYYY its 2023….. so i can finally share a few of these incredible pieces with you!

a fraction of the commission songs i’ve written over the years

I HAVE BEEN WAITING YEARS FOR THIS…

Over the next 7 days i will be sharing 7 songs that i created for others and the stories behind them, AND THEN, on day 8 i will be sharing 2 of the most intimate and personal pieces i’ve ever created, both of which were for my sun Fergus.

These songs are pieces of my soul,

They are audible markers in my career

and going back and listening to them again reminded me of one of my favourite things to do.

TO WRITE MUSIC FOR OTHERS, FOR YOU.

To create art that captures a moment in time audibly that you can return to throughout your life.

which leads me to….The SongBird Series….a revamped slightly altered version of “Love Notes” where you get the chance to have a song written BY ME for YOU for whatever purpose you desire. (MORE ON THAT LATER THOU)

LIKE A PHEONIX FROM THE ASHES SHE RISES AGAIN HAHAH

JUST QUICKLY….

NOW i was undecided as to wether i should share all of these 7 songs for free BUT i want to honour the investment my paid subscribers are making in me and that means giving them first priority. However if you aren’t YET a paid subscriber thats all good - I LOVE YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE and i want to share my art with you still so i have a bit of a prequel in store for you ALL.

A entree of sorts…

Today you get A FULL SONG FOR FREE, never released and never heard by anyone other then my husband and myself…and honestly i don’t know HOW that happened cause this SONG IS SO BEAUTIFUL and i never keep beauty to myself…its called REVERENCE

I want you to hear ALL of these songs, which is why i’m offering a 7 day FREE trial…so YOU can sign up to hear alll the music and read all the stories FOR FREE and then HOPEFULLY decide that my art is worth investing in longer term, that the nourishment i provide your soul through my music is worth the price a TWO COFFEES a month.

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“REVERENCE..”

The story behind the song.

I LOVE my husband, I admire his brain and I’m obsessed with his ability to have an idea - Albeit crazyyy, and execute it successfully. Reverence Retreat was one of those ideas….

For 3 years from 2018-2020 my incredible husband ran a boutique festival in the swan valley of WA called reverence retreat.

It was A bespoke, retreat-style festival celebrating communication, relationships, spirituality & sexuality.

It sold out every year it ran.

This festival holds a veryyyy dear place in my heart for a few reasons. In 2018 at the closing ceremony it’s where Cam proposed to me and in 2020 it was where we found out that we were having a little boy AND where we announced to our wider community that we were going to become parents.

Although I’m VERY glad that cam no longer spearheads a festival of this size because HOLY MOLYYYYY it was SUCH A BIG and ALLL consuming under taking IM sooo glad we went through this experience together. It was JUST MAGNIFICENT.

I created this soundscape after the 2020 retreat to represent the heart and energy of Reverence. The MAGIC, the community, the creativity, connection and the expansion this space provided me and sooo many others.

It’s been 3 years since that and when I listen to this song now I just feeeeel CAM in it. His passionate intelligence. His WILDLY ambitious and fearless heart. His creativity and his SOUL. So complex and serpent like BUT sooo god damn GOOOOD at his core. I love my scorpio man so much.

I LOVE THIS SONG…and i hope you do to.

IMPORTANT- LISTEN TO MY MUSIC WITH HEADPHONES and turn the sound uppppp…..you will miss layers of voice if you don’t and the idea of that HURTS this musicians HEART.

ENJOY…

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