A new original song, which I wrote about people who are too scared of life to honestly embrace it. They live their lives with one toe in the water...

Toe In The Water

What I've been working on tonight - finishing instrumental tracks to a new song temporarily called "Air Pressure". No vocals yet, because there are no lyrics yet. Hehe. But I do have a chorus in mind. But thought I'd post it as-is as a preview of what I'm working on in the moment...

Air Pressure (work in progress - instru demo)

A new original song from a long, long time ago. While playing piano last month, I inexplicably started playing a song I had written way back in the 1990s, Starting Over Now, a simple, heartfelt mid-tempo piano ballad about stepping into a world you weren’t planning on living in. Nervous optimism. Anyway, I've never recorded it. I haven’t even played it in 15 years. I couldn't even remember half the lyrics, so I had to write new ones in order to perform the version I've posted here! I’ve given it a very basic, Ben Folds Five-ish treatment, and vocals sung with the heart of someone looking back at this slice of time, all these years later, and remembering how fragile and hopeful things were. Or maybe young me was sending a letter to future me, to say everything is going to be OK. Either way, I’ve recorded it finally.

Starting Over Now

My Christmas song for you this year - a cover of a song I've known all my life as "that song Kermit and Robin sing together in the Muppet Christmas Special", that always captured what I personally wish for at Christmas time. Turns out, it was a John Denver song. Even better. Happy holidays...

It's In Every One Of Us

I wrote a song today and recorded a (very quick!) demo of it so I could listen to it later. It's about how unnecessary the battle lines others draw on you are.

Battlelines (early demo)

Everything's so pretty here, on the bright side of the moon. That beautiful, blue Earth in the sky can represent a lot of things... hope, the past, the future, your happiness. Whatever it is, it sure takes your breath away when you see it from outside of yourself. (Wrote, recorded and mixed this song from scratch as part of Graham Cochrane's One Song One Month challenge. http://therecordingrevolution.com/2015/12/31/the-one-song-one-month-challenge-and-gear-giveaway/)

Bright Side of the Moon

I Feel It Too

An upbeat song about an idea that's not quite so upbeat: Is a pair still a pair if it's mismatched? I don't pretend to know the answers. I wrote and sang this as someone who doesn't know the answers.

Mismatch

My new single, “Corona Station”, is out now on all streaming platforms and online stores. The song is inspired by the pandemic mess we all find ourselves in today. But, it’s not a sad song. It’s an upbeat synthpop fist-pumper, with a message of hope…sort of. As I say in the song, COVID, “gives me hope that tomorrow’s going to be so much better than today, ‘cause it can’t get worse”.

It takes its name from an Edmonton subway train (LRT) station I’ve used hundreds of times. I thought it was fitting symbol for our time. “Going down to Corona Station, just the same old destination, except this time there’s no going back.”

Corona Station (single)

Electronic singer-songwriter. Canadian prairie boy of Japanese descent. Piano and synth lover, and home recording geek. #topher

Christopher Nash

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