B-Folk: Music inspired by No-Budget Films

[potoroo]

After a LONG bout of writers block...well, lack of time to work on music to be more truthful...I've been writing a song every two weeks, and hopefully will be bumping that up to once a week soon.

Inspired by the amazing podcast No Budget Nightmares and my love of low-budget films, I've discovered that I have a knack for writing respectful, honest and sometimes sweet homage songs for movies that most people would reject as ugly:

• A love song to (or from) a corpse
• A letter from children to their teacher to taught them karate
• An upbeat song about meeting and then being eaten by cannibals
• A dark song from the perspective of a cat in a boardinghouse beset by murder

I've been trying to capture the basic plot or characters, the themes, and always bring in a bit of a tongue in cheek nod to the cheap and 'B' nature of the film, but my main goal is to honour the movies, not mock them.

Wanna check 'em out?  They're on Soundcloud.  I'd love to hear what people think about them.

The next song should be out next weekend, and then I hope to start doing back issues for previous episodes.