Here’s the video for Disappointment Guaranteed another track from my forthcoming collection Lease of Life.
I’m quite proud of this track. I wrote it a couple of years ago in the small hours of the morning walking home from a night out. In fact two songs emerged pretty much back to back so I need to check my voice recorder on my phone to see if I still have the second song on it. What I remember about this song is that I felt it was strong right away. It just so happened that I was booked into EQ Studios with my producer John Hamilton that day just beginning.
So there was a first. I recorded a song pretty much immediately after writing it. I have to give John some real praise here. This is one of several occasions where he absolutely ‘got’ what I was trying to create and the mood of the song straight away. His ‘Rhodes-style’ keyboard solo in the middle of the track was an inspired, one take bit of impromptu playing. The strings that end the track are a classic bit of the magic he brings to the table as a musician and producer.
There’s something about this song that reminds me of some of the very earliest songs that I wrote. I think part of that is also the area of the voice that I sing this song with. It has a bit more of the chest to head voice tenor style more than the baritone voice that I naturally am and that over time I became far more comfortable with embracing and grew into. So there’s something of a naiveity, vulnerability, youthfulness and honesty about this song that I like. Yet it has something of someone who has lived a bit of life and has become more wise to it,
The long spoken intro to thee video and the video itself was the work of my good friend Marcin who thought it would be good to utilise a bit of the acting together with the kind of spoken speech that I use in the work I do today as a life coach and motivational speaker. I really like the blue colouring and mood of this track. Thanks Marcin and thanks John.