This is another song I had the pleasure of listening to from my favourite blogger of new independent music Jeff at eclecticmusic lover. The video below of Overture by Tim Eveleigh has just 12 views at the time of writing this post despite the song being released a year ago. Most of those views are probably from me (and perhaps Jeff), since I really like this.
I like Overture as a meditative piece. My following interpretation may be down to my own romantic-pessimist tendencies, but this is my opinion:
Overture paradoxically seems to heed the danger of negating your own suffering to the rest of the world and yourself or at least not telling the truth of where you are. Because everyone has to ‘wake-up’. To me the song is a challenge of sorts to ‘wake up’ when nothing is alright but you may have convinced and deluded yourself and others. It’s easier to find the comfort of your pillow and just bear the pain and tell yourself and others everything is alright. This is at the microcosm level; the macrocosm is even more deluded and unremitting as we are witnessing.
Now over to Jeff:
The album opens with “Overture“, a lovely, almost gospel-like song with a bit of a Celtic folk vibe. The inspiring lyrics “tell the world you’re alright, tell the world you sleep tight, and nothing can wake you up” set an overall tone of love and optimism for A Record.
At eclecticmusiclover
Tim’s been involved with music since his childhood, and in a wonderful interview with the webzine Croydonist, he discussed how he began studying piano at a young age, eventually working his way up to violin and then viola in secondary school, where he also played in the orchestra. He began writing songs when he was 10, and ended up playing in two bands, which he cheekily remarked “rather worryingly, evidence of this still exists“. By his early 30s he’d written what he described as a solid collection of songs, but “after playing these for a few years I scrapped them all and started again, and I’ve written enough songs to record a couple of albums.”
“The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.”- Michel Legrand
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Nice. I try to sleep like that..
I sometimes get like that.
Sometimes…
Once again, I’m honored to be mentioned in your blog Matt. I’m glad you like Tim’s music enough to write about one of his songs, and I’ve forwarded your post to him.
I’m always grateful to read your blog and listen to profound and original new music. I’m elated you are able to relay my modest post through to him. I’d love to know what his intention was with this song. Cheers Jeff.
Whenever I’m writing or recording my watchword is ‘reassurance’. I hope this comes across.
It certainly does and thanks Tim for chiming in. Good luck with your upcoming record.