Nick Drake – Time Piece (lyrics)
After listening to it many times and with the invaluable help of my friends Vivien and David, I’ve transcribed here the lyric of Time Piece, a song I previously wrote about: I think it is accurate enough to be published. Moreover, I noticed that the “intro” of the tape of “Joey”, on a well known [...]
Look around you find the ground
Reading the referers of this website, I found that someone reached it querying a search engine for How to find Nick Drake’s grave Who do you really hope to find there? He is not there anymore nor will you find yourself by the gravestone. I always try to remember what Marcus Aurelius wrote: Nothing should [...]
Family Tree
I’ve just read the short book that is shipped with Family Tree, the CD whose tracks are a selection of the amateur tapes that Nick Drake recorded in Tanworth-in-Arden and Aix-en-Provence. In the first part of the book, his sister tells us what made her decide to release them: to make a stand against the [...]
Unfathomable Wahlverwandtschaften
Through the decades, I’ve listened to hundreds of albums but I’m sure that the two composers that I’ve listened to most are Johann Sebastian Bach and Nicholas Rodney Drake. Even though listening to their works doesn’t make me especially happy, I try very hard to stop. However it is interesting to note that the morning [...]
I’m sorry (3)
Reading the referers of this website, I found that someone reached it querying a search engine for Nick Drake Italian songs I have never heard either any Italian songs by him or any Italian covers (music or lyrics).
The Nick Drake Song Collection
After some trouble, I’ve finally got The Nick Drake Song Collection. I still haven’t read it to the end so I don’t know if it contains some transcriptions of the home recordings that, some years ago, I was so lucky to find, hear and save from a website before their disappearance (the Internet was wilder [...]
Now we rise and we are everywhere
Often I find myself thinking back to a very short video I saw on the Internet many months ago: it showed three or four young men quietly standing close to Nick Drake’s grave. They said nothing and you can hear only the twittering of the birds in the trees… they agreed to be filmed, standing [...]
