Steve Low

Got the chance to re-record this song (I originally posted 4 years ago) with Scott Seabright in Auckland who has worked with many NZ acts including Neil Finn (crowded House). With Vince the multi instrument session man chiming in, the end result reminds me a bit of a Quincy Jones production and it's a totally real recording with actual drums, bass and everything else all recorded in 1 and 1/4 days...

Minimalist approach to JEALOUS with Guitar, bass, KB, vocals to click track. Also out on SPOTIFY a rerecording of POKER FACE with pro Auckland engineer Scot Seabight and session man Vince Not Bothering to be Jealous Had my eye on the half chance Though half would be exaggerating no? Cause she’s with that guy I hear And they’re really quite the pair But I’m not bothering. I’m not bothering, I’m not...

This is not my song or my voice - it's the work of Marc Steyn who I was in a duo with many years ago. Unfortunately Marc contracted a terminal illness a few years ago. He was such a perfectionist he only released songs reluctantly. I don't think this song has seen the light of day yet - A song Marc was working on in the latter years and which we extracted from his computer. I remember jamming on i...

Anonymous as Cloud Where are you? I haven’t heard a sound There’s perversion of sensibility Since fools released the hound It wouldn’t take all that much To populate streets tonight Bring traffic to a standstill Like Prague in 89 We don’t need guns just numbers and belief oh yeah belief To flaunt the moral high-ground and get it on the streets There must be millions of us here With body and soul i...

UNITED STATES Waking up to frosty landscapes Waiting on a desert sun Stopped into Nepali’s teahouse Looking down Milano’s lawn The scent of London’s summer Piquant whiff of chanel on a train Everywhere I look it’s United States Everything I hear it’s United States Where’s it going to end the United States Like their fathers before them They’re prone to crossing swords Shooting off their biggest mo...

Keeping it natural with the bass driving the rhythm and everything played and sung largely into a mic - the theme is rather self explanatory. Friend of the Fabulous Touched you are by latent hands of Gods Your face is bloated by the friend you’ve got You’ve always got the news of their stuff Someone’s elevated by their lateset bit of status You’re a friend of the fabulous It’s so good you’re almos...

Re-recording of this 2003 song with Ted Key (Organ) and Adrian Secker (Piano). Adrian has played live with us a couple of times this year so it was a project to recreate the live sound in the studio. Back in 2003 there was no streaming and the original recording (song title 'Jack Johnson' ) was on CD and received local radio airplay for a few weeks. Spotify wouldn't accept a song titled with anoth...

The first version of this in 2005 was a reaction to nationalism as exhibited via plane hijackings. This time the US border politics triggered a rewrite with a different chord structure and words. Just acoustic guitar and bass: back to basics! INTERNATIONAL NATIONALITY 2025 I woke up to face the day Acapulco Hilton I knew I had to catch a train to the USA I should be excited but I know I’m not I’m...

I was struck by an article in the Guardian 10 years ago about a woman who used to hang out and work with the Rolling Stones in the 60s and the article was about adapting to old age while having nostalgia for such a potent time in her life. For this recording I had to change one word - 70 to 80. Musically it needed to be rhythmic but melancholic: something you got from major and minor seventh songs...

A complete re-recording in the key played live. It was one of those recordings that sounded really messy. Dropping the fader on the acoustic guitar I'd started the whole thing off with revealed a different direction highlighting case and drums. It's about females who stand up for the community against arrogance and male chauvinism and I see them in my work environment - this song is about them.. M...

A twist on the 'Appearance Medicine' phrase. APPEARANCE MEDICINE Tripping round some corridors Nothing but neon lights Floor polish and hidden voices There you are before my eyes It’s appearance medicine Like a hormone injects in a vein It’s appearance medicine A face that lights a flame S O B and tachy heart when lightning seeds a body start That jumps a gate to permeate my actual need For you wi...

New start after finishing SC and Spotify Album - Eccentricity so Beautiful. This title jumped off a page and lately in the live act we've been doing some 80s songs: I think that influenced the approach here. Decarbonizing Aviation Decarbonizing Aviation It’s a new concsiousness Vapor trails gone West Sometimes you got to make a change To keep love on forever’s path Your shaking trees are exhaustin...

Written 11 years ago: recalls the days when music was vinyl only and a magical retreat from disabling matters of the heart 33 RPM NIRVANA Flattened faces pressed up against the glass It’s well known no-one needs to ask People talking ‘bout how I’m feeling If they were me yes they’d be reeling They’d need time and recuperation But at night I take up station Hanging around in 33 RPM Nirvana Getting...

Wrote the title phrase on a birthday card and immediately thought that's a 'song title'. The first take of the vocal was a loose ramble but I just left it in - it seemed to fit. Love Our Together Life That cliché thick and thin about loving all the time We’re not vascillating over always gotta rhyme Doubling up in laughter keeps an even keel And getting to a sweet spot finally it’s real We drove o...

GREATEST HITS I’m blowin’ notes streetside in a horn section Blown garbage and coppered boots all gone tangling. You’re Bixby’s Bridge above Kerouac’s canyon. Way above the ruts in your trending fashion You’ve been playin’ me your greatest hits. But I need from you something ordinary (Like) Falling vacant down a slip What capture’s me is the fragmentary - humanity You’re all coiff n pressed jeans...

I was fortunate to attend the International Health Institute conference in London last month and there were sessions run by a woman so passionate and committed to change to improve the delivery of healthcare to the masses and I thought her partner would be so proud . . . Eccentricity so Beautiful While life and limb can shatter It’s only hearts that matter - In our world - Darlin’ girl You’re out...

Harmony laden lyrical acoustic rhythmic soul Between Abstraction and Representation You don’t know which way to stand Is the light favorable? Or is black now passe I guess it’s all debatable I’m trailing in your scent You’re LA then New York Ghosting like the Zephyr Train Making sure you walk the walk You’re caught there in between abstraction and representation They watch you in between abstracti...

Thunder Pants Too bad I was your Rembrandt in waiting Though you sensed you were Ms Convenience So many days in a chamber debating Instead of between sheets of Salinas There you go again Mount Vesuvius – in your hands Manufacturing pain Emphatically – Thunder Pants (your cross you bear is burning dangerously near) (Here seeking comfort from anxiety wizened) So soon the ejector seat after the thril...

WHEN YOU FINALLY L:EAVE Future sunset Omarama Knowing only you will see It’s a low brow shrinking ceiling A contract without words It’s the thick of family Harbinger of lonely hearts The fate of you and me And when you finally leave We gotta face it courageously When you finally leave We gonna have to suck it up – it’s the right thing to do We gonna have to draw down on memory Fate is born by traj...

There's a fantastic 70s leaning pop-rock album Ticket to Shangri-La released in 2023 (Young Gun Silver Fox) with a song called Starting Wars. I miss heard and mis-read the title as Starling Wars which seemed a great metaphor for something. It could have applied to a relationship - but the 2 wars going on became the theme Starling Wars You fly in to foul my nest Seeing red I puff out my chest Aimin...

I saw this headline in The Guardian and thought 'song title'. It gives us humans something else bizarre to wrestle with. AI FAKE NUDES ARE BOOMING THIS YEAR She comes up from harborside. Anchor orange and rusty grind Flanks of friends - jaded eyes Curve and laugh make me decide She spins a deft Utopia Now I’m starving Ethiopia. But AI fake nudes are booming this year. Look em in the eye there’s a...

Aside from musical satisfaction and $$$ - the motivations for artists to keeping going can be an addiction to the love from the audience. SCREAMING AND THROWING UNDIES Take my time with plug-ins Connection satisfaction Waving arms like a summons Pointy introductions And soon I’m ridin’ minor sevenths Endorphins in my canal I’m like a godly presence As music funks it’s way around But the pessimist...

Taking only about 30 min to write this seemed a bit of a throw away but had 'live' potential and so it proved. Looking back through life there's moments you would change if you could . . . See Yourself as Yourself Look back - go back - look in the rear view mirror And see yourself as yourself and shudder ‘Bout decisions and actions Thinking ‘bout her, flood the mind And hormone’s, long slow tortur...

When that title slipped into my mind it was all go and the early verse work felt bluesy with certainly blue notes to sing. The chorus wrote itself around the title with jazz chords. Changing key to the variation was natural enough but quite a long journey back to the verse again. Art in her Bones Out on the left - she’s made it her home Some think she’s weird – and likely getting’ stoned alone But...

3rd recording of this song which an African American producer contracted off Broadjam for a year but nothing was delivered. In the last few years I changed the structure of it to suit playing live - with the 2 chords in the chorus on repeat we can drag the ending out in an extended jam - easy money! So this is that version recorded as a studio track this week Dream Destination 3 Dudes are asking w...