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Welcome to my blog.

Lyrics and creative process are what we talk about here, sometimes about other stuff too.

Songwriting is a sweet mystery and should not necessarily be explained, preserving the listeners fantasies about the song.

Some elements are fun sharing though, so here we go.

Thank you for your interest in my words and music,


-Whiteval


 

You are mine (Inferno 44)

You are mine (Inferno 44)  was recorded  during a one night session on an eight tracks recorder, so what you get is the raw emotion of that night. 

Originally conceived to be  in a  6/8  time signature, I decided to…

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Désert (Live Acoustic)

(Texte en français plus bas)

I usually write my songs in English but sometimes one pops out in French, my native language.

It seems that I am writing a bit more emotionally when I do so. It is a bit…

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Voices (Acoustic)

This stripped down version of my rock song Voices started with me having to do an interview for the West FM Radio Podcast.

I was supposed to sing an acoustic song so I made this softer arrangement of an initially…

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Voices

For generating the lyrics I used my preferred songwriting trick: letting the groove transport me in a trance and channel what’s coming from the great fishing pond. Grab the guitar, start the drum machine, release all focus. 

Being on autopilot…

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She was an animal

A fun song about telepathy.
The chorus came to me in a dream, music and lyrics fully formed.
I recorded it straight away on my smartphone, I still have the recording somewhere. It’s happening sometimes you dream of music and…

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