SharDave

This is an original song, music put to a poem that Shar wrote when she was young. Here's the story in her words: I had written the poem when I was young, making a bookmark item of gold ink on parchment paper. It got lost in the midst of time, as bookmarks tend to do. As I was packing to move interstate from Darwin to Victoria, I found the bookmark, unexpectedly, in one my many books. Ten days after arriving in Victoria, I was called to Queensland to attend my mother, who was dying. Gathered together with my brothers and sisters on my mother's property, I put this song to music to play with my siblings. My mother, herself a musician, loved listening to the music that we were playing in our vigil. This song describes the power and influence that the written word has on our mind and mood, and on the formation of the ideas that shape us. A fusion of genres, the power of 'To Write' is captured in the multi-layered percussion that defines it.