New Music, this Friday... Link here: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/nathanpower/lucy Lucy inhabits a weird corner of my mind. She officially started life on April 8th, 2019 as an abstraction called ‘Empty Bar Blues’. She wasn’t a ‘blues song’ in any of the standard definitions (12 bar form, melody borrowed from the blues scale, call and response etc), but…Read more On Lucy
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On Birthdays
Before you read on, I'd love you pre-save my new single Lucy. It's out on Feb 28th. Pre-saving literally means Spotify will let you know when its out. That's it! No money. No time. Just a chance to hear my new song as soon as it's released. Link: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/nathanpower/lucy .... I'm experiencing existential dread. It's…Read more On Birthdays
On Sunsets
It’s been a year of pretty sunsets, spread across a hundred different places. I’d love to say I make a habit of taking time to watch the sun set, pausing as it dips below the horizon, but the reality is that the only times I catch it in the act are when someone else points…Read more On Sunsets
On Tour Stories
It’s day three of this two week solo tour and everything starts to gain clarity. It’s been a hectic start to the tour with three shows and around fifteen hours of driving. I’m feeling great emotionally, just tired and its starting to show in my daily routine, where every activity includes a little time for…Read more On Tour Stories
On Sparrow Song
This was originally a Facebook post. Copied here for sentiment's sake. It brings me great joy to share some new music. Click hear to listen. ... When one of my primary school students asked me what this song was about (I showed them the live video in class and asked them to identify the…Read more On Sparrow Song
On Creative Process
Today I spend thirty minutes wandering the backyard with a microphone. I've attached three mic leads together to the recording interface in my shed and cables crisscross the lawn in streams, knotting and twirling through the grass we haven't mowed since summer. I'm meant to be putting the finishing touches on my new single. It's…Read more On Creative Process
On Touring New Zealand
I wake on an alpaca farm twenty minutes out of Dunedin. It’s a homestay on the far south of New Zealand’s south island, an odd return to an unexplored part of my family history. Outside, a thin old growth forest grows stunted, pushing up against gravity’s interminable pull. The trees here grow at slant, aiming…Read more On Touring New Zealand
