Liner Notes:
This is my first song for the month.  I loved this skirmish prompt from  and Liz's take on it resonated with me deeply. (FYI, a "Skirmish" is a group songwriting sprint. A time is announced, a prompt given, and then everyone has 1 HOUR to write a song.)

Liz says: I’m so grateful that Tara brought her beautiful music and insightful sensibility to create this moving gorgeous song from lyrics I quickly wrote for a skirmish. Her tweaks and nuanced delivery elevated the poignancy I was trying to convey.

Lyrics
If That Were To Happen 
©️Liz Petty and Tara Craig 2024 

C 
when I dream about the future 
I dream about us 
about growing old together 
with deep lasting love…. 
but then I wake up and wonder 
if that will be enough 
it’s not you it's the future 
that I can't trust… 

V1 
maybe I’ll grow more hair 
on my chin than my head 
if that were to happen 
would you still love me then? 

maybe I’ll forget that 
you were ever my wife 
if that were to happen 
what would become of our life? 

PC 
maybe oh maybe 
we were meant to be 
but baby oh baby 
that’s not up to me 

C 
when I dream about the future 
I dream about us 
about growing old together 
with deep lasting love…. 
but then I wake up and wonder 
if that will be enough 
it’s not you it's the future 
that I don't trust… 

V1 
maybe I’ll stumble 
into the depths of despair 
if that were to happen 
would you ever find me there? 

maybe I’ll see you out 
in another’s arms 
if that were to happen 
would I live without warmth? 

PC 
maybe oh maybe 
we were meant to be 
but baby oh baby 
that’s not up to me 

C 
when I dream about the future 
I dream about us 
about growing old together 
with deep lasting love…. 
but then I wake up and wonder 
if love will be enough 
it’s not you it's future 
that I don't trust… 

B 
maybe we’ll grow old together 
with deep and lasting love 
but even if that doesn’t happen 
 I’ll know this love was enough 

  OUTRO 
 oh even if that doesn’t happen   
I know this love was enough 
I know this was enough

The Future - FAWM 2024 demo

“When you see her live there's this amazing sensation that her voice is the only instrument you need to hear, sort of now... or ever.”
— Charlie Cheney

“One of the most vibrant and pensive songwriters emerging”
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Tara Craig captivates audiences with a huge voice that is equal parts soulful and vulnerable. Her songs drip with imagery and are delivered with palpable emotional intensity.  Her immersive, vocally-driven, indie-folk-pop songs have the ability to give a voice to the unspoken places within the heart.  

Tara Craig earned her musical chops in the "Live Music Capital of the World", Austin TX.  In 2010, she was awarded, Austin's "Best Female Musician".   

Throughout her career, Tara has played hundreds of shows in a wide variety of venues and she continues to hone her craft. Whether in a crowded bar backed by a full band or on the streets of a sleepy beach town, the strength and vulnerability Tara shares through her music resonate.

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I am a published poet, a coffee addict, have tattoos, love my family, non-denominational Christian, lived in South Africa.

I'm good the way I am and I'm allowed to be that way. The steps between the genres are normal for me, triphop and electronica, electro and techno, pop and jazz - the genres can overlap and flow into one another. I compose, produce, play a few instruments at a low level, I sing and I write down what's in my heart and soul. Since 1987

mirojam is the stage name of Mirko Herth.
Informational is another stage name for his music with vocals.
Mirko is the singer of Reinstoff.
Since 1987 mirojam is making electronic music.

mirojam, whose grandparents hail from Italy, Serbia and East Frisia, grew up in the Midwest of Germany. He became a musician at the tender age of 3. He started out playing chime bars and practicing the flute, went on to the mandatory guitar, got familiar with the drumsticks and learned how to play the piano. To top things off, he eventually discovered his singing voice and completed a classical vocal training.

The composition and production of his own songs had always been an affair to the heart for mirojam. After participating in a few different band projects, he decided to play all the instruments that he needed for his compositions himself. The world of electronic music provided him with the best conditions to create his very own music. With the help of an Atari ST, a tape recorder, various synthesizers and samplers his first recordings emerged in 1987.

In 1993, he formed the musical duo “Homeless” with Philip Omlor, followed by the production of their first album “Prelude” two years later. It was both Phillips and mirojams distinguished voices, combined with their deep understanding for music and mirojams technical skills that made that album pretty unique, given the standards of the 90’s. In fact, “Prelude” was crossing the gaps from the Beatles to Peter Gabriel to Depeche Mode. But, in hindsight, either time wasn’t ripe or the boys too young to realize what a gem they had created.

After their split up, electronic music became mirojams main platform to develop his skills further and further. Over the years, he published lots of new tracks, but he always avoided to send anything out to a label. His music was for himself and his friends – he created that kind of music they enjoyed but couldn’t find in the record stores. And although he had seriously contemplated to study music after he’d finished school, he decided against it in the very last minute. He was to anxious that his creative choices would lose their freedom once his music became a business matter and would serves as his only income.

This attitude hasn’t changed until today, with the difference that the time is finally ripe and mirojam ready to not only share his outpourings exclusively but with the whole world. From downbeat to techno, from electronica to trip hop – mirojams music evolves without restrictions and he never strictly follows the marching course of a certain genre. He “thinks” the music and then produces it. Simple as that. Time and again he collaborates with other musical free spirits from all over the world. In this way, many exciting projects arise.

Thanks to the internet, they can now be found on all important platforms and are available to listeners worldwide.

Mirjam is published at the following labels:
> Berlin After Dark
> NDI
> CARPS
> Jambalay Records
> Frequency Shift Recordings
> Dead Groovy Music
> CBJ
> Bass Controllism Records

“I am grateful for your support. Hope you like electronic Music :-)(-:”

My new E.P. "Jar of Fireflies" has arrived on King Tide Records. My debut record Yesterdays / Tomorrows is already here. I live, write songs and drink coffee on an island in the great PNW. Maybe a new song will arrive today, you just never know...