Lee Barry Composition Diary

  A late-90s song based on a real estate ad. The McCartney influence is obvious. It was composed initially on guitar, and here's the plinky MIDI version. (It can be played on piano but I'm not about to score it as such). Who wouldn't want the above? Church For Sale by meta4s  *** A Video 45 based on the same chords. I retitled it Christmas 1983 because this was the sound of pop music back then, and is somewhat of a personal musical memory.  

After watching the film The Proposal , it reminded me of this tiny oil pastel I did in 2007. It isn't as (ir)reverent. #architecture

A new song about the submerged Welsh town of Llanwddyn . The town was also referenced in Sebald's Austerlitz : "A kind of Old Testament mythology of retribution gradually built up inside my head, and I always saw its supreme expression in the submersion of the village of Llanwddyn beneath the waters of the Vyrnwy reservoir. As far as I can remember it was on the way back from one of his journeys to preach away from home, at either Abertridwr or Pont Llogel, that Elias stopped the pony-trap on the banks of this lake and walked out with me to the middle of the dam, where he told me about his family home lying down there at a depth of about a hundred feet under the dark water, and not just his own family home but at least forty other houses and farms, together with the church of St. John of Jerusalem, three chapels, and three pubs, all of them drowned when the dam was finished in the autumn of 1888...."