Yo! This is the first single from my debut solo rekurd "The Black Book Of The Universe".
It's called The Mountain.
There's a FREE DOWNLOAD below my rantings.
The genesis for the song popped into my head as me and my missus were driving down a dirt road to Paradise, near Glenorchy, New Zealand (Yes, Paradise is a real place! I've attached a photo of the valley from our horse-riding vantage point. I felt utterly ridiculous on the back of a horse, but then I actually started to like it. Such amazing creatures.) The beauty there is just so amazing that it spurred the cogs of my mind into action (which doesn't happen very much i'm afraid to say!) and as we got out of the car and looked up the Dart River Valley, the chorus popped into my head and i filed it away. Later I sang it into my mobes back in Queenstown so I wouldn't forget it. When I got back to Sydney, I finished the track off.
It's a song about feeling completely over-awed by your surroundings. Feeling small, alone and utterly helpless in the face of such an overbearing problem that you can't imagine how you can ever triumph over it. 2009 was full of those types of situations for me and my family.
6 The Mountain by simonjcarter
