Photo credit: Kati Balwin skeleton's music is a soothing liniment made of empathy and insight. On “Mariposa” skeleton offers a fingerpicked pop devotional that includes dreamy woolgathering reflections about commitment and the transcendental possibility of now. Pedro’s Expressionist descriptions are finessed to their most poignant elements; “everyday when you awake / the orchestra all takes its place / your brain conducts a symphony / of muscle and bone, with each line pushing the narrative. skeleton joined me for a brief chat about inspiration, songwriting, and how fortunate we are to experience love.
Pick up of a copy of skeleton was on the radio here. SC: This song shifts quickly from meditative to declarative (“love make me blind”) can you tell me about this choice? PLdV: It's always difficult for me to keep a song slow. This song is the latest example of this struggle. The sonic story still had somewhere to go, and I couldn't help but take it there. SC: I love the lyrics “Cause everyday when you awake / the orchestra all takes its place / your Brain conducts a symphony of muscle and bone”/ and you know I’m not alone / grace take make home” Can you tell me about writing them? How did you devise metaphor? PLdV: Mariposa is a song that's about being in awe of someone or something. In this case, it's about a lover whom I found to be incredibly graceful. Her movement was always deliberate and even in her stumblings she was elegant. Something as simple as saying her name would have her crane her slender neck and look at me—and these moments would always leave me alight. The mechanisms in place to produce such grace were so complicated and yet simple—sinew bone muscle etc all working in perfect concert. It's grateful, too. The overcome odds of meeting someone like that here on the infinite expanse of space/time are something to hold precious. So, it's a love song. It's an awe-song, and an "aww" song, but ultimately a love song. I love you, you're something precious and rare, and I'm so glad you've managed to flutter down to be next to me, you mad mechanism of beauty. SC: Can you tell me about writing “Mariposa”? PLdV: Writing this was easy because it was just a gut-check. Each line would ask that I check it against my feelings and it would be true. SC: How does your community of songwriters inspire you? PLdV: My community of songwriters is great and I'm pumped to have other local tunes to listen to.
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11/19/2018 03:38:26 pm
You clearly write from the heart. That is why it was easy for you to compose 'Mariposa' because all you had to do was take inspiration from your own feelings. This is also my way of writing songs. I have been composing songs since I was ten years old. I enjoy writing songs because that is when I get to tell the different stories of my life. It is hard for me to open up, so I choose to write about my feelings instead because it makes it easier to express what I am feeling.
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