More about my songs
This page provides some more context to my songs, their birth, their meaning, or anything more or less relevant...
RIDE ON
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Sometimes you just can't stop the wonder that you feel happening.
You just want to go ahead.
Straight ahead even though you know it’s taking you where you shouldn't venture.
This song is about this gutsy desire. The relentless energy it gives.
A breaker's majestic power topped with surf-white joy.
It is about choosing life despite the voices of obstacles and disorientation.
It is about feeling alive.
Or wanting to.
Enjoy the ride.
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Don't stop the wonder!
CREDITS
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Drums performed by Emidio Pierro
Everything else by Cedar Wyes
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Mastering by Davide Barbi
I won't let you down
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This song is a promise to her.
A promise to keep her floating without hitting the hard ground.
A promise of a home anywhere she goes.
A promise of an embrace whatever she'll become.
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About having her dark cold time behind her.
The warm piano embrace together with the lively lightness of the ukulele make for a promise of brighter days, solemn when needed and light most of the time...
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The song was ready pretty much before its release, but I was hoping to make a decent video that would stand the level of the song...
A single bat in a remote country decided otherwise. The world stopped... And so did my video project... Fortunately the song is immune to all that.
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CREDITS
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Bass: Michele Cavalca
Piano: Davide Barbi and Samuele Scagliarini
Strings: Alessandro Gallo
Everything else: Cedar Wyes
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Mastering by Davide Barbi
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Beauty is not always to be found where you expect it, nor is it necessarily absent where you don't expect it.
This song is about that. About being able to see it where it is.
It can be in people or things that we tend to avoid because they represent a failure of some sort. It can be in ourselves.
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A peculiar example of that is the passing of time and growing old. Most people see it as a negative thing only, something that takes life's beauty away with it.
But time may smooth out your corners that used to catch in life, slowly bringing new harmony, new beauty.
Like old statues left to weather's will, we may get that unexpected polish that keeps us away from the obvious and adds to our style, charm and value.
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Overall, this is an optimistic song about what comes.
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Pieces of Art
CREDITS
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Drums performed by Emidio Pierro
Back Vocals by Marco Aliscioni
Everything else by Cedar Wyes
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Mastering by Davide Barbi
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One may have convictions about oneself and about the world, at first.
Life slowly may dismantle these convictions in various ways as well as many of the staple ideas that used to shape your way.
This song is about losing one's grounding, one's landmarks.
It is about finding out that there is no more definite route, no traced path.
It is about being puzzled, disoriented, lost by the teachings of life.
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It is about being ready to go on through the maze along with this uncertainty, even with a certain confidence after all.
USED TO BE SURE
CREDITS
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Drums performed by Emidio Pierro
Everything else by Cedar Wyes
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Mastering by Davide Barbi
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Excuse my French.
Sometimes you are focused on some longings and cannot see they might be fulfilled by someone around you. Sometimes you are in the other role.
This song is a dialogue of the deaf between someone's inner world willing to receive and an outer world willing to give. But the two worlds don't speak the same language...
The inner voice theorises and romanticises its longings, while keeping blind to the concrete world at hand.
The outer voice is waving to be perceived by the inner, fiercely inviting it to join, but failing to establish a real contact...
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They go on the same way, in parallel, without merging together, without really ever meeting.
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In a way this song balances the song Bare where these dynamics are reversed.
ESPACE-COEUR
CREDITS
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Drums performed by Emidio Pierro
Everything else by Cedar Wyes
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Mastering by Davide Barbi
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This song is about meeting someone you inexplicably like so much that you feel ready to give yourself bare to her. Deprived of any mask.
It is about offering oneself with the insolent impetus of a teen, driven by the force such a feeling unleashes in you.
It is about the surprise of feeling oneself as a teenager again.
It is about being bitterly forced back to reality when you slowly realise there is no echo returning to you.
It is about how this force easily turns over against you at the first doubts.
It is about the intolerable, wounding paradox of un-shared obviousness.
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It is about many things.
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Note about this song's efficiency: absolute 0. On hearing this song, the girl in question remained stonily indifferent. I got my clothes back on.
BARE
CREDITS
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Everything by Cedar Wyes
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Mastering by Davide Barbi
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This song is far from being an ode to testosterone or to any mannish trait. It is not as macho as it may seem.
This song is about things I noticed among modern women, somehow torn between their will to be the man's equal, and their will to be fully feminine and seductive in a more classic way.
It needs fine artistry to combine these two somehow antagonist goals. And the result is indeed often a clumsy alternating chaos from one pole to the other, and often appears as a total paradox to the puzzled man.
As a mirror effect, her expectations regarding her quest for her perfect mate, the modern woman is expecting apparently paradoxical things from him, such as being both super male and super sensitive.
Due to her evolutionary heritage she often seeks a tough male. Whom she'll sometimes hate for being so rough, due to her modern conception of the man's role. Of course the opposite can happen: she may choose a man who's pretty much unlike the brutal caveman to satisfy her need for sensitivity, but of course she'll sometimes urge him to act as a real man, protect her, hunt, feed the clan... anything that modernity couldn't really erase from the DNA storybook.
Interestingly, while often yielding to woman's unsatisfaction and man's headaches, this demanding paradox may lead to a more complete man if he ever strives to cover a wider range of women's expectations. And man himself may be the first to enjoy a more complete self if he can express both ends of his being, from primary instincts to elaborate sensitivity.
So after all, woman's paradox may be a growth factor for the man (yes I am trying to be optimistic here).
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Arguably, the song could be written about man's contradictions as well without a big effort...
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Technical side note:
On this song I used the electric guitar I built, with its stereo output combined to distortion by a plugin I specifically designed for this purpose. That's obviously when I had some free time... in my elaborate cave.
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TESTOSTERONE
CREDITS
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Drums performed by Emidio Pierro
Everything else by Cedar Wyes
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Mastering by Davide Barbi