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Songcatching
“I’d like to write songs, but I don’t know how to start. How do I choose a good songwriting course?”
It feels like there are so many things you have to know, and that you have to already be good at, before you can write songs.
But it could be somewhat easier than you think.
You don’t have to be a highly skilled musician. You just need three chords, to start with. And a few other elements.
1966: A year in my life
This is my story about the strange and transformative year that was 1966.
It took me all the way from a bungalow on the volcanic lava slopes of Auckland/Tamaki Makarau, to a haunted Elizabethan cottage in East Anglia and back again.
The Cassowary’s Daughter
This is the story of my personal cassowary quest. I’ve been looking for this elusive, magical, mysterious bird all my life. Hunting my cassowary is fascinating, exciting, and much stranger than I could ever have imagined.
“To trap cassowaries, one needs to know a very great deal of magic.” Ian Saem Majnep, Birds of My Kalam Country