Free Download: The Bliss Returns (demo)

The lyrics for this song were actually written back in 2000 or so – a good decade old at least. I never even thought about putting them to music until maybe the last year or so. I was going through old notebooks and sheets of paper, searching for something I wanted to add into another song.

But even still, no music ever jumped out at me for it, and then the original idea I had for the song is completely different to what it actually has become. I remember sketching out a vague idea for the lyrics, and having this clear idea of how I wanted the subsequent section to sound – which was going to be completely instrumental.

However, this little piano riff snuck onto the keys one day, and I got completely addicted to it. Any time I’d sit down at the piano it was the first thing I’d play. It’s only a simple little riff, but I loved it. And then the lyrics one day just fitted over it – I could hear how they should go. The song has ended up something completely different from what I thought it was going to be, even after I’d previously thought it would never be an actual song.

This demo version may yet change and develop as I add more instruments to the song. I have a few ideas of what I want to add on – but at this stage, who knows what way it’ll change before I have a final proper recording of it that I like.

[audio:http://www.misterebby.com/previewtracks/blissjandemo.mp3]
The Bliss Returns (demo) (right click and save to download)

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Free Download: Water Phoenix (demo)

I knew what I wanted from this song as I wrote it. I knew what I was writing about, and how the song would be structured, more or less. But I was still surprised by the melody that came from the lyrics. Sometimes I can sit and just hear the melody that is meant to be there when I read the lyrics, other times I have to work on it quite a bit to get something that works. But for this, there were melody ideas there as I was writing the lyrics, so when I sat at the piano, the whole song was waiting for me to find the piano part.

The demo is just an idea of what it’ll be like – I think this is going to be a very richly arranged song when it is finished, and I hope that the person it is about likes the song. It’s quickly become one of my own personal favourites to sing.

[audio:http://www.misterebby.com/previewtracks/phoenix.mp3]
Water Phoenix (demo) (right click and save to download)

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Free Download: Is This What They Call Romance? (demo)

This song grew from wanting to write a really upbeat little pop song. The chorus of it is something that would run around my head after I went swimming. No idea why, but the lyrics were basically sketched out while sitting in a sauna.

The verses were bits and pieces from various places. Little ideas or leftovers from other songs, so in a way the song itself is a bit of a composite of a few different things.

The piano riff sticks in my head, and was the first part of the song to be written, in terms of the music. Once I’d sat with that for a while the rest of the song just fell into place and I had this little boppy little piano pop song that is great fun for me to play.

[audio:http://www.misterebby.com/previewtracks/romance.mp3]
Is This What They Call Romance? (demo) (right-click and save to download)

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Little mention in the Drogheda Independent.

Nice little blurb in the local Drogheda paper promoting the gig tonight.
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Sessions get under way in Punt Bar

FANTASTIC LINE-UP OF ACTS
Wednesday January 20 2010

THE Purple Sessions kick off 2010 with a great lineup this coming Friday, January 22nd, upstairs in the Punt Bar, Drogheda.

This month the sessions are bringing to Drogheda a fine selection of artists to entertain the purple sessions audience the line up includes

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Mister Ebby is a piano playing songwriter from Galway who writes quirky indie pop songs. He grew up in a very musical household – two of his brothers are musicians too: Kevin Brett, and Izzy Plastic and The Manicans. He has also played together with Anna Lee under the name Husband/Wife, as well as with The Molls and with Jazz singer Alex Hahn.

via Sessions get under way in Punt Bar – News, frontpage – Drogheda-Independent.ie.

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Upcoming gig: Drogheda, Jan 22nd

the purple sessions - jan 22I’ll be playing the Purple Sessions in Drogheda’s The Punt Bar on January 22nd along with Hugh Patrick, Stephen J Smith, Heirs To Nothing and Bobby Noonan. Have a whole bunch of new songs that I’ve not had a chance to play live yet, so when the offer came through my MySpace I thought why not? Where better to try out a few new songs than at nice acoustic sessions night somewhere I don’t live?

If you’re in the general area, it’s a free admissions gig, and sounds like a wonderful monthly showcase of Irish songwriting talent.

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