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Descending by Iyeoka

This song is another single off the full length album due in March 2010 with Underground Sun.  I wrote the song about 8/9 years ago and used to perform a basic version of this at the Lizard Lounge on most sunday nights. If u remember this holla! I’ve written a ton of songs these past 10 years but “Descending” was special to me in many ways. For one thing…it was the first song that Jerome Deupree (drummer/Morphine) ever commented to me he would love to produce. I don’t even think i knew what that meant at the time.

I’m hoping you will listen and think of someone you love.
I played it for my family during thanksgiving holiday and watched as they all held each other, my parents dancing in the kitchen. I’ll never forget that moment.

Let me know what YOU think.
play it for somebody.
pass it on.

REAL TALK–I’ll be traveling back out to LA to record more songs for the album in the new year and I must admit that the experience puts me in a bit of a bubble. It can be very isolating for someone like me who feeds off of eye contact, whiskey and heart beats.
My natural element is LIVE performance–so the process of working on this album has me excluded from the live feed more than i would like. I’m split with the thought that the record making process is a blessing and a sacrifice.

I need you.
Send me a note.
Post it somewhere permanent like my heart.
lol-thats just me being poetic.
Seriously, post it on itunes or my website. So we can reference it in 2051. No pressure for the comment to be brilliant. Just write from the heart and know that I’m listening.

happy new year
iyeoka

ps–i’m blogging my journey here. send me a shout out on my website and i’ll hit you back with something top secret.

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