Ellis Easley - Last day at the river studio

Today was my last full day of that wonderful purity that is self-isolation. The week rushed past me like some scene from a movie, where a spectral form literally passes through someone, hitting them but not really touching them at the same time. Maybe you know what I’m getting at. In any case, that’s how time seems to pass these days; fast and hard-hitting.

I spent the entirety of today on a single song, which I’m totally okay with. I was thinking early this morning over my coffee and Harry Potter book (I decided to bring something that was guaranteed to help me feel perpetually relaxed), that it was time to do a piano-heavy song. Something slow and clear. The melody came almost instantly, so you can imagine I was a little surprised at 5 p.m. that I was still working on cello and violin layers. It just grew into something far more complex that I was planning. But it has a HUGE sound and I love it.

It’s called “Structure, Which I Need.” Very playful title, I know. Very coy. It’s something of a narrative that deals with love and how some people may find each other due to bizarre circumstances of fate and the universe. And within this love also lies… almost a perplexed exasperation, of how people can also seem so wrong together at times, that they can bring out the worst in each other. And yet, that in itself does not sign any death warrants, so long as you put in enough effort.

I’ll be leaving here in the morning with six mostly completed songs. They really have felt sincere, and although my time here is done, I feel inspired, and centered, to go home and continue constructing this album. It has a lot to say, musically and lyrically, and I’ll be bursting to share it when it’s done.

Until then, you, and everyone else who supports independent artists such as myself, have my utmost gratitude. I wish you well and hope we affect each other’s lives soon.

EE