WATER’S NO CROP
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‘Water’s No Crop’, complete with a video by Nina Vroemen. Compelled by an organic guitar line and dressed with unadorned vocals, the
track is grounded in Dave Scanlon’s abstemious practice, and refutes the notion that austerity is inherently cold and barren. Because
despite the simplicity, and the fact it barely lasts three minutes, the song forms a warm and hospitable space. An almost self-contradictory
dimension, where the verse-chorus structure folds over itself it perpetuity, and the deepest pictures are painted by the most disciplined,
frugal hand.
‘Water’s No Crop’, complete with a video by Nina Vroemen. Compelled by an organic guitar line and dressed with unadorned vocals, the
track is grounded in Dave Scanlon’s abstemious practice, and refutes the notion that austerity is inherently cold and barren. Because
despite the simplicity, and the fact it barely lasts three minutes, the song forms a warm and hospitable space. An almost self-contradictory
dimension, where the verse-chorus structure folds over itself it perpetuity, and the deepest pictures are painted by the most disciplined,
frugal hand.
We live strictly for each other arrangements
Fend off lonely claims aimed to distract our
verbal arrangements
Each day I cut my hair
Each day I cut my hairCalendar fueled by the body’s crop
I’d like to be in your harvest
Keep the day’s growth in jars
I’d like to be in your harvestWater’s no crop I’d offer
I wished you’d offered first
For Dave Scanlon, the process of making music is not the means but the end, the process its own form of art. Art that strives not to
communicate with an exterior listener, rather to inspire others to begin their own interior explorations. “This is sacred music written for
my own personal practice,” Scanlon explains. “If it is at all utilitarian, I hope that it encourages you to create something for yourself.”
-Jon Doyle19th November 2020
