On Getting Better
March 8, 2011Hi everyone!
Am so happy to have some time on my hands now to update this blog!
I just read some of your comments that apparently I’d left “unapproved” (but which I actually just didn’t know about). There was one that came from Niz, who heard my cover of “O Holy Night” on the Jam compilo album (released in 2005, I think, but distributed for free to the radio station’s clients) and said she didn’t like it. “It isn’t good,” she remarked.
I like it when people speak their minds. Those who do have actually gone on to become great friends of mine. So thank you Niz and everyone out there who’s listened to my stuff and found it wanting. It’s my incentive to keep working on my craft and get better!
But that’s the tricky part about recorded music. You may have recorded it way, way back, in 2004 or whenever, when you were still unsure and wet behind the ears, but some people who will hear it for the first time in 2011 will see this as the absolute snapshot of your artistry.
So I guess I’ll be getting more comments like Niz’s as my recorded stuff from kopong-kopong slowly makes its way through this world.
But meanwhile, here’s a bit of me now, at the Tori Amos night in 2009, doing a cover of “Caught A Lite Sneeze.” Recorded by fellow Toriphile Aldena at Conspi. Stll a work in progress, still a bit rough, but I’m getting there. And thanks for being here with me.
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Isha Abubakar is a writer-musician. She has won awards and recognition for both her writing and music. And she is happy. Baliw ka na lang kung hindi ka pa masaya. 