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Steve Low
by Steve Low
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 and the TLC network from 2005. The track IS THIS WHO I THINK IT IS was a finalist in the 2009 NZ MLT songwriting contest. In Dec 2012 DUNEDIN SOUND reached no. 26 on NZ on Air "The Audience" chart. In December 2015, RIP OFF THE SCAB and DREAM DESTINATION were selected by a US A&R agent for promotion to artists, In July 2017 - HIGHEST ROOM also picked up by a US agent for promotion. July 2018 DON'T YOU TURN AWAY selected by NY agent to promote to a London soul singer. August 2018 LOVE MY LIFE assigned to BuyNZ audiovisual advertising. December 2018 WHERE CIGARETTES FALL forwarded by Taxi.com to US TV music director. Latest 3 albums seek to marry singer songwriter Imagery with multi-harmony musical movement. 2024 FLOATING INTO WONDER and ECCENTRICITY SO BEAUTIFUL got airplay on a New Foundlan
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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…
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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...
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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…
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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...
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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…
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International Nationality 2025
The first version of this in 2005 was a reaction to nationalism as exhibited via plane hijackings. This time the US border politics triggered a rewrite with a different chord structure and words. Just acoustic guitar and bass: back to basics! INTERNATIONAL NATIONALITY 2025 I woke up to face the…
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Yesterdays People
I was struck by an article in the Guardian 10 years ago about a woman who used to hang out and work with the Rolling Stones in the 60s and the article was about adapting to old age while having nostalgia for such a potent time in her life. For this recording I had to change one word - 70 to 80....
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Ms Rocket Launcher
A complete re-recording in the key played live. It was one of those recordings that sounded really messy. Dropping the fader on the acoustic guitar I'd started the whole thing off with revealed a different direction highlighting case and drums. It's about females who stand up for the community...
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Appearance Medicine
A twist on the 'Appearance Medicine' phrase. APPEARANCE MEDICINE Tripping round some corridors Nothing but neon lights Floor polish and hidden voices There you are before my eyes It’s appearance medicine Like a hormone injects in a vein It’s appearance medicine A face that lights a flame S O B…
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Decarbonising Aviation
New start after finishing SC and Spotify Album - Eccentricity so Beautiful. This title jumped off a page and lately in the live act we've been doing some 80s songs: I think that influenced the approach here. Decarbonizing Aviation Decarbonizing Aviation It’s a new concsiousness Vapor trails gone...
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33 RPM Nirvana
Written 11 years ago: recalls the days when music was vinyl only and a magical retreat from disabling matters of the heart 33 RPM NIRVANA Flattened faces pressed up against the glass It’s well known no-one needs to ask People talking ‘bout how I’m feeling If they were me yes they’d be reeling...
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Love Our Together Life
Wrote the title phrase on a birthday card and immediately thought that's a 'song title'. The first take of the vocal was a loose ramble but I just left it in - it seemed to fit. Love Our Together Life That cliché thick and thin about loving all the time We’re not vascillating over always gotta...
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Greatest Hits
GREATEST HITS I’m blowin’ notes streetside in a horn section Blown garbage and coppered boots all gone tangling. You’re Bixby’s Bridge above Kerouac’s canyon. Way above the ruts in your trending fashion You’ve been playin’ me your greatest hits. But I need from you something ordinary (Like)…
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ECCENTRICITY SO BEAUTIFUL
I was fortunate to attend the International Health Institute conference in London last month and there were sessions run by a woman so passionate and committed to change to improve the delivery of healthcare to the masses and I thought her partner would be so proud . . . Eccentricity so Beautiful...
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Between Abstraction and Representation
Harmony laden lyrical acoustic rhythmic soul Between Abstraction and Representation You don’t know which way to stand Is the light favorable? Or is black now passe I guess it’s all debatable I’m trailing in your scent You’re LA then New York Ghosting like the Zephyr Train Making sure you walk the...
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Thunder Pants
Thunder Pants Too bad I was your Rembrandt in waiting Though you sensed you were Ms Convenience So many days in a chamber debating Instead of between sheets of Salinas There you go again Mount Vesuvius – in your hands Manufacturing pain Emphatically – Thunder Pants (your cross you bear is burning...
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When You Finally Leave
WHEN YOU FINALLY L:EAVE Future sunset Omarama Knowing only you will see It’s a low brow shrinking ceiling A contract without words It’s the thick of family Harbinger of lonely hearts The fate of you and me And when you finally leave We gotta face it courageously When you finally leave We gonna…
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STARLING WARS
There's a fantastic 70s leaning pop-rock album Ticket to Shangri-La released in 2023 (Young Gun Silver Fox) with a song called Starting Wars. I miss heard and mis-read the title as Starling Wars which seemed a great metaphor for something. It could have applied to a relationship - but the 2 wars...
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AI Fake Nudes are Booming this Year
I saw this headline in The Guardian and thought 'song title'. It gives us humans something else bizarre to wrestle with. AI FAKE NUDES ARE BOOMING THIS YEAR She comes up from harborside. Anchor orange and rusty grind Flanks of friends - jaded eyes Curve and laugh make me decide She spins a deft...
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SCREAMING and THROWING UNDIES
Aside from musical satisfaction and $$$ - the motivations for artists to keeping going can be an addiction to the love from the audience. SCREAMING AND THROWING UNDIES Take my time with plug-ins Connection satisfaction Waving arms like a summons Pointy introductions And soon I’m ridin’ minor...
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SEE YOURSELF AS YOURSELF
Taking only about 30 min to write this seemed a bit of a throw away but had 'live' potential and so it proved. Looking back through life there's moments you would change if you could . . . See Yourself as Yourself Look back - go back - look in the rear view mirror And see yourself as yourself and...
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ART IN HER BONES
When that title slipped into my mind it was all go and the early verse work felt bluesy with certainly blue notes to sing. The chorus wrote itself around the title with jazz chords. Changing key to the variation was natural enough but quite a long journey back to the verse again. Art in her Bones...
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DREAM DESTINATION 3
3rd recording of this song which an African American producer contracted off Broadjam for a year but nothing was delivered. In the last few years I changed the structure of it to suit playing live - with the 2 chords in the chorus on repeat we can drag the ending out in an extended jam - easy...
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JUST WEATHERING
Kind of musical irony in a way with a horror theme immersed in a jaunty beat: an unintentional result where so often a song writes itself and you decide not to change it. Caught up in a War Hear the words why me See fiery horizons Eating up ground are black caterpillars We’re shrinking near the...
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FAKING IRONY
Modern Artists like Leon Bridges and Son Little marry hip hop or RnB rhythms often to acoustic based songs. Its an opportunity to blend elements that you love from 2 generations of music into one song - some lyrical bite, sweetened by 60s vocal harmonies. FAKING IRONY I see your troubles start…
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ELECTRIC PIANO (you are black and white devine)
Combining childhood and later relationship memories with the early sounds of electric piano: first heard on Help! "Chalking up belief" references 'Chalking up the Hurt" in the great Michael McDonald song 'Real Love' from the time when he created amazing piano based pop-rock, now termed Yacht…
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EXEMPLARY
Behaviours are so important going forward. Going to have to be some selfless work from everyone - be exemplary. Exemplary We look out the window and we see it’s our turn We want to, we need to The river is rising and grass is burnt It’s a headache, it’s a heart ache So we’re walking through the...
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HR KIOSK
Continuing the Jazz injected pop-rock theme of Collect the Moment and Better do SOME GOOD this one references AJA though it could easily be ASIA. My time spent in AJA (Steely Dan) was about the same time we were dissecting preserved bodies in Otago Medical School. Playing live then I was…
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COLLECT THE MOMENT (Feat. Alexander King)
Alexander King parachuted into our town from New Orleans via Brisbane and set up a recording studio. We combined on this song 'Collect the Moment' which I'd just written on piano. Alex: rhythm track, bass, some guitar, recording, production, mixing Steve: Vocals, keyboards, guitar Alexander King...
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BETTER DO SOME GOOD
After 10 songs of jazzy singer songwriter it's time for a change. But not much! As science based as we are there's still that feeling of karma or whatever. So - better do some good! Better do some Good. Hey I don’t mind complicity in drinking all that wine It’s good to get the wheels up, but just...
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Is This Who I Think It Is
New recording of this song that was in the finals of the NZ MLT songwriting awards 2010 Is This Who I Think It Is Another tumble ‘cross the dance floor A tender hold onto someone I call my own A look into her eyes that lingers Another drink that goes from loving hand to hand Is this who I think…
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HEY LOVE YOU
HEY LOVE YOU! Hey love you More than LC would’ve craved for Marianne No manuscript could sing with more devotion A paper chain enough to fill an ocean I’m always up so close and being dutiful. Yeah I fix your hair and say you’re beautiful. Yeah I fix your hair and say you’re beautiful Mmmm breath...
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TO FLY OR NOT TO FLY
Not really alt rock but the guitar solo at the end is fairly anarchic. To Fly or not to Fly To fly or not to fly YES! To fly or not to fly NO! To fly or not to fly that is the question. It’s a no brainer ‘cept for the greedy and absurd. There’s kilos of carbon coming from engines. While the earth...
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MISS ROCKET LAUNCHER
Miss Rocket Launcher Hey hey you this Joan of Arc - Miss Rocket Launcher Love you sending into space – those flying saucers Your eyes they dart and sense corrosion You’re leaning forward in silky motion You know who is fit to govern For those who aren’t they get concussion Your elbows dent the...
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IN SO DEEP
In so Deep I'm carryin' weight – beast of burden streets of Ankara My feet they hurt – my saddle gonna wrench apart My hunger never stops – the wave it never crests I’m drowning in consequence I’m in so deep – and I won’t let you down a bit It’s history – I made you all these promises Our worlds...
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SLEEPS ON FIRE
Sleeps on Fire I’m dwelling on rocket fire Piano fragments and twisted strings Lady rag doll dead at the door Dementor soldier with lips so thin Sleep Killer’s messing with my head Gotta rise up get a change of thought Find a codeine and a TV show My feet are cold and my tongues like chalk Back…
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HAZY OCEAN
Hazy Ocean I see you at the break of day A flash of gold across a bay I watch you you’re a dolphin riding rail And then it comes the perfect wave And balancing you show the way Your love of life it’s written in your trail Hazy Ocean - you wash all over me And I’m diving after you Like the tide...
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COME BACK TO REAL
I had this title – 'come back to real' – lying around unused and thought it would work with a lyric about an imaginary couple with different views on the topic . . . Come Back to Real You’re the one who found revision History’s just a false depiction you say The government’s trolling all our...
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LOVE IN THE HOUSE
Love in the House You want to move me down to that ritzy neighbourhood Where there’s black cars by the stables And the grass is hissing gently & you know that starchy lady there might give U half a minute If she thinks you come from money & our star is still ascending But what’s the point of that...
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UR7 FINAL FLIGHT
UR7 Final Flight The tail of aviation dies, As engines roar and cough. Vapor trails once crossed the skies But here’s the last take off I stare out of my window And my heart sinks like the moon I grab your hand so tightly While the cabin’s like a tomb UR7 final flight We know the skies are danger...
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LAST OF THE SUMMER FLIES
Last of the Summer Flies At last you have left - my insecticide is spent Though your screw driver voice is reverberating Your tongue it got bent - drilling holes in my head Now I’m smoothing hurts by restorative ironing And though they must have a role in ecosystems I’m so glad to see the last of...
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CAN OUR SOULS STAY TOGETHER
Can Our Souls Stay Together Hey girl that was really something – truly unforgettable I’m staring right up at the ceiling – the air is perfectly still Cause I realise you’re not from here And your train gonna leave to your God out there Can our souls stay together Can your soul sleep another night...
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YOU DON'T TALK EASY
You Don’t Talk Easy Yeah, I’m all over you Coming by your room Faking accidental - as if you didn't know These small steps up a mountain climb And nothing’s going to turn back time, hey you I’m crawling cross this chasm that I find I’m trying to talk my way into your eyes In real life you’re…
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EXHAUST PIPE
Exhaust Pipe In the shadow of a smokestack rising eating up the air Kinda gritty look you give me on this street to God knows where We’re ducking under extrusions in the face of water walls At least we got each other ‘neath this sky that’s like a war Eye brows on the ceiling even though we got…
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FLOATING INTO WONDER
Floating into Wonder Now that the border’s open - she’s on the overnighter Up near the universe so vivid as it’s shining brighter So long in isolation – We living on our phones But what a torture that is - needing flesh n bone And I’m waiting near the runway’s end Watching descending lights And...
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F CHORD MAKES MY FINGERS BLEED
F Chord makes my Fingers Bleed All across the plain there’s a heavy kind of drone And the picking has cleared the fields And every one’s talkin’ bout where to go next Some with scars on hearts to keep But me I ain’t gonna be running anywhere I got land here to put on ice And I’m saying it to you...
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Good Souls
Sad to hear Rusty Young of Poco passed. Great band and I'm sure all good souls Good Souls When is this heart beat Going to be under skin I got my guard up Don’t know what dark you’ll bring You got something mmm That triggered a landslide But I never sensed The dead inside your eyes Hey good souls...
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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 and the TLC network from 2005. The track IS THIS WHO I THINK IT IS was a finalist in the 2009 NZ MLT songwriting contest. In Dec 2012 DUNEDIN SOUND reached no. 26 on NZ on Air "The Audience" chart. In December 2015, RIP OFF THE SCAB and DREAM DESTINATION were selected by a US A&R agent for promotion to artists, In July 2017 - HIGHEST ROOM also picked up by a US agent for promotion. July 2018 DON'T YOU TURN AWAY selected by NY agent to promote to a London soul singer. August 2018 LOVE MY LIFE assigned to BuyNZ audiovisual advertising. December 2018 WHERE CIGARETTES FALL forwarded by Taxi.com to US TV music director. Latest 3 albums seek to marry singer songwriter Imagery with multi-harmony musical movement. 2024 FLOATING INTO WONDER and ECCENTRICITY SO BEAUTIFUL got airplay on a New Foundlan
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