another blast on this beautiful theme and a very tasty one. It was a great job from both of you.

hi lee, been a while. are you still making music??

hey my friend - this is a berautiful ballad - great to be back here, hjope you are well:)

Intimate melody with a heartfelt voice, ideal for a day like this.

Gorgeous & tender folky vibe.. enjoyed muchly, kudos to you both!

Well having heard a most beautiful little acoustic guitar ditty by Philip Bridle the other day, both his music and the title of Kintsukuroi instantly inspired me to write some lyrics and sing along to it. 

Kintsukuroi is a Japanese form of art of mending broken pottery in an artistic way. The end result of how it is mended had many people breaking their valuable pieces just so it could be repaired with its new artistic look and appearance.

To make Phil's great music work for the way I wanted to approach it. I decided to chop it up a bit and glue it back together in my own artistic way so I could make it more comfortable for the verses to work as a song. 

Because I liked the subject matter that much I very much decided to keep the title and write the words around it all. I have to admit my pronunciation of the word "Kintsukuroi" is not how it is supposed to be, but it worked better for me in a folky way. So I apologise to all my Japanese friends.

I would like to thank Phil for igniting the spark with his beautiful piece of music and I hope you all enjoy....

Kintsukuroi.  (Music by Philip Bridle/Words by Lee Lucas).

Lee Lucas - Vocals - Artwork & Mix.
Philip Bridle - Acoustic Guitar.

You can find more of Phil's great music here: https://soundcloud.com/philipbridle/tracks

The song has been made available as a free digital download  @ Bandcamp here: https://leelucas.bandcamp.com/track/kintsukuroi

The lyrics are as follows:

The broken pieces shatter
and crumble on the floor
that precious piece held history
from where it stood before

Somewhere in that moment
there's a spark that lights a flame
a certain passion, creativeness
ignites inside her brain 

She gathers up the pieces
to rebuild them once again
assembling generations
with every piece she starts to mend

She sprinkles in some gold dust
adds her own artistic touch
mixes it with lacquer
and applies it with a brush

(Break)

That little piece of history
now stands back on the shelf
restoring generations
she did all by herself
By herself.

Kintsukuroi
Kintsukuroi...
Oh Kintsukuroi...

Please find time to leave comments to which are always very well appreciated and many thanks for listening.

Lee Lucas & Philip Bridle - Kintsukuroi

I very much started out playing instruments very late in life, and spent much of my earlier days listening to it, rather than playing it. I am very much a self taught musician and regard my instruments very much like implements, tools or devices to write with, rather than being anything remotely near a good playing musician of any great technique. 

I guess I really got into instruments more back in 1994 when I got into my first band (though I did learn to play the Harmonica when I was 8 years old) it was around this time I wrote a song on the Guitar entitled Oldtime Street. The song is very much even today one that contains some of the finest lyrics I have ever written, and very much perhaps inspired me to carry on.

Though the band back in 1994 was a very short affair, it was not long after I got into a R&B band performing Rock & Blues in various pubs around my own town Birmingham. I was very much the lead singer in this outfit which lasted some 6 years. Though during these years the band had gone through several line up and name changes and came to a stop in 2001. I suppose it was a bit of relief in a sense, because it's quite easy to put a band together, but murder to keep everyone happy, and keep it going.

Even though I only really did Vocals and played my Harmonica in the band, I still found time now and then, for my guitar, and my keyboards at home, and I also contributed in a big way to our own compositions in the band.

My tools are as follows:

Studiologic VMK-188 Plus 88 Key Midi Controller Keyboard.

Yamaha PSR E303 61 Key Keyboard (Used Via Midi)

Yamaha F310 Acoustic Guitar.

Yamaha ERG121 Electric Guitar.

Encore E4 Bass Guitar.

Various Harmonicas in many Keys.

Alesis Performance Pad Pro Drum Machine & Pads. 

Audio Technica AT2020 USB Microphone.

Vic Firth Drum Sticks.

Various VST Software for Keyboards, Guitars & Mixing.

Cubase 5.

Ableton Live 8.

Steinberg Wavelab.

Influences are from mainly 70's Prog/Rock/Blues/Traditional Folk/Electronic Music.                    

Comments

Mike Hilton

Midisound

Likewyse Productions

Likewyse Productions

juhasoderqvist

Doug Roossien

Endless Night

Von Sebastian

Anmafean

Zitan