Jeremy, now in his mid-20s, has been writing music since elementary school. It started out as the undisciplined doodling instead of practicing for piano lessons. In his early teens this proceeded to writing electronic music ranging from techno to electronica to industrial to rock (and even some cheesy video game music). Then in 9th grade he picked up guitar which became his favorite musical device. Since then he has performed in a broad range of musical settings including: alternative 90s rock bands, as a solo acoustic artist, various college worship teams, and an energetic indie rock band. Lately he's taken his focus to the acoustic realm as a singer-songwriting, still providing quality songs, unconventional lyrics, and melodies that his friends want to sing along with. He brings an accessible set of tunes to the table. You can relax and enjoy, but also take something home to think about.
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Friday, 14 May 2010
It's a been some time, but during that time much has been going on. Working as a producer at my studio has been most of it. A lot of neat stuff has happened...good projects, growth in so many ways. I'm very thankful for it all.
For a while I simply set my music down, because I wasn't sure what direction to take it. There are a few styles / genres I write and trying to reconcile them while deciding whether it was Jeremy Simon material or Taking Motion material was just leaving me at a loss.
Recently I started trolling through a lot of old ideas CDs I had sitting around. Too much unfinished stuff is laying around. I gave my friend Dave two CDs and since he has such a different taste and perspective on things, asked him to pick out what he liked and I'd make an album. So 12 gracious melodies were chosen and now the process has begun to refine 30 second to 2 minutes doodles and noodles into something more complete.
I've given up trying so hard writing lyrics -- it's been the main barrier to me completing so much over the years.. Basically many of these songs may just remain instrumentals. The more I've thought about it, that wouldn't be too bad. Lately it seems, or maybe I just listen to too much music, but sometimes I wonder how many times words are just thrown at a song to get it done. Maybe less words are alright. Say what matters. Be wise with what you let out of your mouth and heart. Yeah something. At the same rate, I'm not a proponent of going overboard meaningful on everything; fun stories and stuff to laugh about and simple sentiments are wonderful. All I'm sayin' is words are optional.
Otherwise, we're playing some in Colorado this month and well, enjoying this amazing creation we inhabit...plus a little guitaring.
Tis all tis all,
jeremy
Concert Tonight (Feb 20, 2010)
Saturday, 20 February 2010
I've been mainly focusing on facebook and myspace, but it doesn't hurt to put the info up here...
we're playing tonight. we = me, anna, andy
first and last concert in a long time. seriously.
details = 8:00 PM at the Jammin’ Java coffe shop @ Eastern University
1300 Eagle Rd., St. Davids, Pennsylvania 19087
Cost: FREE
Jammin Java is in Walton Hall. yeah that coffee shop (it’s large) in entrance area of Walton Hall
Need a Campus Map? --> http://eastern.edu
Jeremy is featured on the Christmas compilation, "Stocking Stuffer (A Pouch Record's and friend's Christmas album!)". You can download it for FREE at www.MikePouch.com! In Pouch's words, "The album is completely free. Also, feel free to share it with your friends and family. I am putting up a suggested donation, though, of $5.00 dollars. All of the money raised from these donations will be going towards World Vision , so please donate! Also, $5.00 is just a suggestion, you may donate more, or less - every little bit makes a difference. Thank you! "
Also Jeremy's Christmas song "Evergreens" is also available for download on bandcamp, jeremysimon.bandcamp.com , where you can purchase the track in various formats, including loss-less (FLAC, Apple's ALAC, ..) encodings!
Jeremy, now in his mid-20s, has been writing music since elementary school. It started out as the undisciplined doodling instead of practicing for piano lessons. In his early teens this proceeded to writing electronic music ranging from techno to electronica to industrial to rock (and even some cheesy video game music). Then in 9th grade he picked up guitar which became his favorite musical device. Since then he has performed in a broad range of musical settings including: alternative 90s rock bands, as a solo acoustic artist, various college worship teams, and an energetic indie rock band. Lately he's taken his focus to the acoustic realm as a singer-songwriting, still providing quality songs, unconventional lyrics, and melodies that his friends want to sing along with. He brings an accessible set of tunes to the table. You can relax and enjoy, but also take something home to think about.
