About the work

A closer look.

A real song, written and produced for one place that matters to you: a street you grew up on, a coast you keep going back to, a room someone left. Tell me the place and three or four true things about it. SAMPLE, from a song I wrote for a place I have never stood on (Kouderika Beach, Papua New Guinea): "I picked a beach I'll never stand on / far enough that nobody's there." A song here starts from the real thing I found, never a guess. Yours opens the same way. I look at the place's real record first - a dated street-level frame, what is actually there now - before I write a line. If the record contradicts what you remember, I tell you before you pay. If the place will not carry a song, you do not pay. You get the finished track (audio), the lyric, and the record I used: the frame, the dates, and the gaps I could not close. One revision included. Delivered within 7 days.