Steve Low

Steve Low

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  • Window Seat
    Song about making assumptions. Rhythm wise I was thinking how Chic stripped disco back to basics
    WINDOW SEAT
    Hey I booked that window seat
    You gotta nerve to go and sit there
    Just because you’re first on board
    Is that how you live your life
    Grabbing at what you want
    Despite what’s written on your ticket
    Man, I must have grown up deluded
    Believing everyone knew right from wrong
    And you sittin’ in that window seat proves it
    My delusion is exposed and it hit me like a bomb
    Yeah I gotta be so strong
    Get out of my window seat - Get out of my window seat
    Love the view from on high
    Soaking in the rare perspective
    While you I doubt have that aesthetic
    Never seen into the mystic
    Shovin’ your butt just where you want it
    Raising a finger to convention
    People like you are screwin’ the earth
    Flogging crops and spewing gas
    Using folk for your end’s meet
    Corrupt with no integrity
    Gonna out your feeble ways
    Bring you down and make you pay
    4 min
  • REPETITIONS
    Back to lo-fi home recording with acoustic guitar , bass, keyboards and multiple vocals. The theme is in defence of repetitive time consuming behaviour that puts you into a nice comfort zone.
    REPETITIONS
    I’m doing this thing that irritates - a kind of self-improvement
    Yet I’m hearing from you acidic - do I need to it quite so often
    Well yeah why not I try to justify - turning up the heat
    But you’re needling me like this program is something rotten
    Sick of being defensive me
    I’m herding angst to make you see
    Yeah I
    I’m doing this thing to face down the black dog
    And if these repetitions feel like a tightening knot
    Hey I’m sorry but it’s advantageous for it to be
    Everybody has a lifetime of things
    That could have gone differently – mmm so much better
    And this ground in memory – it fogs the mind
    As one is contemplating, mulling thru all this messy weather
    Pack your bag anxiety
    I got this thing that sets me free
    Yeah I
    I’m doing this thing to face down the black dog
    And if these repetitions feel like a tightening knot
    Hey I’m sorry but it’s advantageous for it to be
    Better than mythology
    These repetitions anchor me
    5 min
  • POKER FACE
    Got the chance to re-record this song (I originally posted 4 years ago) with Scott Seabright in Auckland who has worked with many NZ acts including Neil Finn (crowded House). With Vince the multi instrument session man chiming in, the end result reminds me a bit of a Quincy Jones production and it's a totally real recording with actual drums, bass and everything else all recorded in 1 and 1/4 days..
    5 min
  • Not bothering to be Jealous
    Minimalist approach to JEALOUS with Guitar, bass, KB, vocals to click track. Also out on SPOTIFY a rerecording of POKER FACE with pro Auckland engineer Scot Seabight and session man Vince
    Not Bothering to be Jealous
    Had my eye on the half chance
    Though half would be exaggerating no?
    Cause she’s with that guy I hear
    And they’re really quite the pair
    But I’m not bothering. I’m not bothering, I’m not bothering
    To be jealous
    Suffering daily through her fragrance trail
    And her laugh behind - the office wall
    That guy she’s with must cavitate
    When she’s at his door
    Thank God I think at 5pm
    My reflection in the window of the tram
    Won’t think of her tonight
    I got songs I’m gonna write
    Yes I’m not bothering. I’m not bothering, I’m not bothering
    To be jealous
    Gotta go pour myself a heavy dose
    That calming thing
    Trouble is that’s when those big ideas
    Come flooding in
    Yeah I tell you what, I’ll text her now
    Let it all come out, this sacred cow
    That there is but one true love
    In this universe of lust
    So I’m not bothering. I’m not bothering, I’m not bothering
    To be jealous
    Yeah cause I know you and me
    Are the soul of ecstasy
    So I’m not bothering. I’m not bothering, I’m not bothering
    To be jealous
    3 min
  • Marc Steyn - Just Like Me
    This is not my song or my voice - it's the work of Marc Steyn who I was in a duo with many years ago. Unfortunately Marc contracted a terminal illness a few years ago. He was such a perfectionist he only released songs reluctantly. I don't think this song has seen the light of day yet - A song Marc was working on in the latter years and which we extracted from his computer. I remember jamming on it when we met up to share songs at that time. Amazing memory. The photo was in the Nelson Evening Mail highlighting a house concert we put on in 2005.
    Also this week - out on SPOTIFY a rerecording of POKER FACE with pro Auckland engineer Scot Seabight and session man Vince
    4 min
  • ANONYMOUS AS CLOUD
    Anonymous as Cloud
    Where are you?
    I haven’t heard a sound
    There’s perversion of sensibility
    Since fools released the hound
    It wouldn’t take all that much
    To populate streets tonight
    Bring traffic to a standstill
    Like Prague in 89
    We don’t need guns just numbers and belief oh yeah belief
    To flaunt the moral high-ground and get it on the streets
    There must be millions of us here
    With body and soul inflamed
    Hey where you all gone hiding
    You’re anonymous as cloud
    There’s urgency
    Don’t let the train leave the station
    The minds of the army
    Can be bought by mere oration
    Citizens
    Held hostage by a deranged few
    Think about that
    Don’t let it all come true
    5 min
  • UNITED STATES
    UNITED STATES
    Waking up to frosty landscapes
    Waiting on a desert sun
    Stopped into Nepali’s teahouse
    Looking down Milano’s lawn
    The scent of London’s summer
    Piquant whiff of chanel on a train
    Everywhere I look it’s United States
    Everything I hear it’s United States
    Where’s it going to end the United States
    Like their fathers before them
    They’re prone to crossing swords
    Shooting off their biggest mouth
    And prancing ‘round like Lords
    Internationals recoil
    Talking ‘bout the weather of their lives
    Met a Yankee couple at the old train station
    He was wringing his hands about that nation
    Semi comatose in Tehran
    Paper thin the walls around me
    Static and announcer’s parlance
    Creeping into conscious thought
    Crackling the searing bacon
    Every now and then a free man’s fate
    5 min
  • FRIENDS OF THE FABULOUS
    Keeping it natural with the bass driving the rhythm and everything played and sung largely into a mic - the theme is rather self explanatory.
    Friend of the Fabulous
    Touched you are by latent hands of Gods
    Your face is bloated by the friend you’ve got
    You’ve always got the news of their stuff
    Someone’s elevated by their lateset bit of status
    You’re a friend of the fabulous
    It’s so good you’re almost tremulous
    You think that we’re hanging on your words
    But what’s she really like that piece of work
    Oh she’s just so normal and such fun
    Everyday’s a party oh if only we could come
    You’re a friend of the fabulous
    It’s so good you’re almost tremulous
    You’re a friend of the fabulous
    Let me bathe in your perspective
    You’re a friend of the fabulous
    If she knew us we’d be so blessed
    Everyday you’re locked away
    In your love of adulation
    So you’re a limpet clinging on
    To that association
    You’re a friend of the fabulous
    It’s the fundamental anchor of your life
    Like bees on speed they’re buzzing you a lot
    Must be more today who will feed another high
    3 min
  • Everybody Here Looks Like A Star
    Re-recording of this 2003 song with Ted Key (Organ) and Adrian Secker (Piano). Adrian has played live with us a couple of times this year so it was a project to recreate the live sound in the studio. Back in 2003 there was no streaming and the original recording (song title 'Jack Johnson' ) was on CD and received local radio airplay for a few weeks. Spotify wouldn't accept a song titled with another artists name - hence the title change.
    Jack Johnson
    Driving up the Kawera gorge to Queenstown
    Looking out the windows at the cars
    Then you go and make a small commotion
    Pointing out the V-dub that went past
    Did you think you saw Jack Johnson
    Did you see a surfboard and guitar
    I think you’ve had way to much my friend
    Cause everybody here looks like a star
    Coronet is lovely as an ice cream
    We’re carving up the snow having a ball
    Then you go and make a small commotion
    Pointing out a cool dude on a board
    Sunday and we’re on the beach hung over
    Recalling when the Eichardts was a bar
    I feel like some kiwifruit pavlova
    You’re still musing bout that V-dub car
    5 min

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Playing live and writing & recording in Nelson New Zealand - began recording in 2004 once technology was available to make CDs using industry standard equipment at home. Radio airplay on Fresh FM…