What Can Love Do? (The Demos)

What Can Love Do? (The Demos)



Hey! Welcome back to the blog. I'm excited to share with you the surprise I recently announced. Check out what I have to share with you.



What Can Love Do? (The Demos)
1.) Higher Than I've Ever Been
2.) The Audition
3.) Something About This Place
4.) What Love Can Do
5.) Love and rooms
6.) High In Love


Links:
Noisetrade: What Can Love Do? (The Demos)
Archive.org: What Can Love Do? (The Demos)

The Drake Album Art:

I am sharing with you a handmade EP I made. The songs on What Can Love Do? are songs that were written after we recorded The Drake (update below). I wrote these songs about distance and how it feels to love and miss someone. The oldest song on the list, Love and Rooms, began to form on October 1st, 2017 after coming across an improv recording, recorded in 2016 titled something like Sunshine Can. The song is solely about love and was originally released to Soundcloud with the title, That Place. With Love and Rooms, I wanted to write a song that gets that message of love out there. After writing a few lines, I could feel where the song was going. By the second verse, I started to understand that I wanted the song to be about love. With lines like, "If love walked into the room, I'd write about it and share it with only you", I wanted to push the concept further and express how much I love you for being a reader, a listener, and someone who reciprocates the feelings. I go on to say "I'm gonna love you now" and "I'm gonna make sure that's all that I will be about". I like to remind myself to be love, and I think it's important we all do this from time to time. It's not always easy to be love. Sometimes people throw us off by making us angry or surprise us by telling us things we don't want to hear. Even in the downest of downs, I always jam out an old tune and listen to the message of love pouring out onto the track. It's my belief that if you write way more than you can even possibly comprehend about love, than you can look back on what you write and say, Wow it really is love. You can say look at this 120% amount of love that this track is about, and even if you're down, you can feel good that something good is coming soon. I just want to be love to the highest power. I want to surprise you by telling you good things, and allowing you to feel the love you're hearing, and then do something good for someone else. Just be love. Don't worry. I love you. I want to remind you this in every possible second. I will push myself to be that person.


So, Love and Rooms, is about love. Let me chat about some of the other songs on What Can Love Do? and then we'll get to The Drake update. Ok, so right off the bat, I want to quickly express my motivation in the What Can Love Do? message. What Can Love Do? is more than a handmade EP of demos, but it's also a continuing question I will be forming as we get closer to The Drake release. When the time comes to start touring, I would love to name the tour What Can Love Do? Because love can do a lot of things. Love can create inspiration, happiness, motivation, and good feelings. Love can be the highest and purest form of satisfaction for mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters. Love can change lives, and help people in need. I want this movement that I'm creating to start changing lives and lifting others up. I want the message What Can Love Do? to start a wave of excitement and energy. I'm going to continue to gather responses from the question What Can Love Do?


High In Love, just like Love and Rooms started forming on November 17th, 2017 after coming across another improv recording titled, What Are The Odds?, which was recorded in 2016. High in Love, is sort of like a canvas that has been splattered with paint. There are a few different messages in it from good things are coming soon to the beauty of someone you love. While working by the ocean in Prospect Harbor, ME, lines began to form about the ocean and traps that might be dropped from a lobster fishing boat. I was inspired every day that I was in Prospect Harbor by the ocean, and that reflected in the lyrics.


Alright, so it's about that time to talk about The Drake. The Drake has been pushed back a little bit. Updates, previews, and tour dates are subject to be released as time goes on. One of the reasons we have pushed back the release date is so that we can develop additional media and shows and make it a release that is complete with more than just an album. The release date for The Drake will be released as time goes on. As soon as the release date is confirmed, I will announce it. And I am going to try to make it so that announcement is released to you as soon as possible. Hopefully we can confirm the release date by the end of April.


Once the decision was made, I began to rack my mind of what I can do to satisfy you and give you something to enjoy in the meantime since a lot of people were under the impression that The Drake was going to be released this winter. What Can Love Do? came to mind shortly after announcing that I will be releasing the album artwork for The Drake. I had a handful of songs that have yet to be properly released, and I jumped to the idea of recording them as demos and posting them to song sharing websites such as Noisetrade.com, and Archive.org. What Can Love Do? (The Demos) was recorded with the same handheld recorder that recorded the demos for tracks such as Tell Me How and After The Rain. I've loved that recorder since I got it probably at the age of 16 or 17. The recorder is stuffed with old recordings and memories made in my hometown of Auburn, NH. I will retire it one day and give it to someone who needs it or can make use of it. For now, I will put it to good use as I'm now 28 years old and will be 29 on May 21st. So anyone, it's 11:51pm on February the 17th, 2018 and I can bet that you're probably excited for spring and warm weather. I really hope this release helps you to get there and puts an extra pep in your step for a while. After all, the world needs you and I think you rock! 

Thanks for checking out my new handmade EP, What Can Love Do? and The Drake Album Art I hope you guys enjoy the tracks. Keep on writing and stay positive. It's really not easy but music can be a very helpful tool that will help uplift, inspire, and change lives. I love everything you do and I am so excited to hear what else is to come. Focus on the now, go forth with love, and strive for greatness. Reach, reach, and reach again. You are loved.

To tomorrow,
Zach

What Can Love Do?

Hey, thanks for visiting my blog. I am so excited to share with you guys the new album we recorded last year. I will have some updates coming soon. I am planning on sharing the album artwork on the 18th, and along with that I will be updating you on how and when we will be releasing the new album.

A lot has happened since we recorded The Drake. First thing's, first, I have to note that I have found the writing process to be far more easy than in the past. The reason is because every time I open up a social media app, or visit YouTube, one of the hundreds of artist's that I met in New York City is releasing something new. It makes it easier because I'm digesting inspiration and having moments where I am excited, singing along, and just rockin' out to these tunes that I wish half of Bangor could be listening too as well. When all is said and done, thank you for being you. Thank you for working hard, playing your music, and continuing to change the world like you do.

I ran into some personal issues in 2016 that effected the beginning of 2017. I will tell you guys more about this later on when these issues are a thing of the past. However some of them are still borderline current, and I won't be ready to talk about them for a few years. But the music won't stop, don't worry.

I took a break from writing near the end of 2016 and picked it back up in August of 2017. As soon as we started recording, I started writing. New songs started to flow, and I am trying to build up enough songs for another release not long after we release The Drake.

Here is a list of songs that were written in 2017 that did not make it on The Drake, with the exception of 2 tracks.

1.) Something About This Place
2.) The Audition
3.) Take My Pain Away (made it on The Drake)
4.) That Place (needs a new song title)
5.) High In Love
6.) Higher than I've Ever Been
7.) Your Time (made it on The Drake)
8.) Scream
9.) What Love Can Do


I love music, and I always try and push myself to work harder than I possibly can at achieving my goals. Note that I started writing again in August, so this year I hope to double or maybe triple that amount of songs.

This is going to be a good year, I can feel it. I plan to head to Los Angeles and explore the music scene there. There's also a lot of really good schools there. I definitively want to look at some.

Alright, so Feb 18th, album artwork... I plan to get my website up and running, maybe this March. I have had that on the back burner for a  while and now I can feel that I will be getting around to that soon.

I recently watched a video where an artist discussed his favorite track on his latest album. I loved how this person did that because it helps you understand what song(s) the artist is most passionate about.

So here we go.

Favorite song off
Waiting on The Tide To Change..
-Something Else

Zrobb
-Those 3 Words

Live at the Shrine World Music Venue
-Just a Dream

Loving
-Addiction to Love

All time favorite song that I've written:
Quiet Day

The Drake:
Something in the Way You Move


Quiet Day was the first song that I ever wrote. I wrote it in Keene State College, and I remember the first time singing at Rail Road Square with Djembe extraordinaire, Zach Stevens. Quiet Day is about pain and agony, while still staying true to that message of love, with the lyric, "I know you're out there." That line is about my belief that true love exists. And when you fall into it, it is the most incredible thing that you have ever experienced. I know there is someone out there for me. Maybe it's you, with your beautiful eyes, as you read this blog post. lol. I just believe in true love. I really do.

I'm going to wrap up this blog with the lyrics I have re written for the chorus to a new track, What Love Can Do.

"You drop it all cuz, something new is coming soon.
You cross the states with your date, you're arriving in June.
You feel just like you took a drug, warm feelings start to flood you.
This is what love can do."

Feel free to message any lyric ideas that you have. I honestly want to start like this new phase or stage in my life and name it What Can Love Do?. I want to take it to the next level. Change my username to What Can Love Do?,  get my website up and running again under the URL whatcanlovedo.com. I want this to be bigger and better than anything I've done before. I want to go around and ask people every day, What Can Love Do? Hey, if you want something bad enough you'll get it. So this is my new thing. What Love Can Do. What Can Love Do? What do you think? Tell me today.

Peace guys,

You Rock!!

-Zach