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Nick Asbury

A conversation about songs, writing and songwriting, between Kate van der Borgh and Nick Asbury.

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Into the wild blue yonder

Sending out these Sunday songs has prompted me to dig back through my mainly baffling voice notes to find unfinished fragments. I sometimes strum a guitar and wait for phrases to float up, which occasionally lock together into a ‘thing’ of...

8 days ago
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Loose ends

My memory is that this one began with a first line: “He’s over here, asking himself if he’s over her.” The chronic word player in me liked the shift in the here / her, and the way it changed the meaning of over. That eventually led to a sim...

15 days ago
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Thought about you all night long

Or just another verse-verse-bridge-verse love song.

I do enjoy writing this stuff, however unsatisfying it is to have AI as a way of sharing it. I think of the 32-bar Tin Pan Alley song as the American equivalent of the sonnet form – a se...

22 days ago

Quarter to blue

This one is my attempt at addressing the urgent shortage of songs about trains and feeling sad. As in previous posts, the lyrics and music are by me. I then uploaded my own piano/guitar version to Suno, which generated the cover version. (T...

a month ago
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Caught in two minds

Another song for a Sunday morning, and for anyone who can tolerate the weirdness of listening to AI-performed music, albeit human-written.

This one came from my own recording with guitar, piano and (for once) a rough bass line, which the A...

a month ago
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