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Thomas Truax (pronounced troo-aks) is an American singer/musician, inventor and multi-media artist. One of the most imaginative characters on the pop music fringe, since the year 2000 Thomas has been traveling the world performing with his evolving “band” of bizarre self-made Harry Partch-esque instruments including a motorized drum machine made of bike wheels called ‘Mother […]

Jerusalem-born Avital Raz is a theatre maker and musician. Her first solo show My Jerusalem was derived from a controversial song. It combines live music with storytelling and projected images. A politically-charged tale of a drunken one-night stand, infused with stories of growing up in the turmoil of 1980s Israel. Raz started out as a […]

Photo by: Aurélien Digard In an interesting and technical entry for our Songwriting Blog here at Positive Songs Project we caught up with regular PSP contributor and wonderfully prolific songwriter Mickey Van Gelder. Mickey Van Gelder is a Blues musician, songwriter and lyricist based in Lancashire, UK. He’s played with harmonica player Pat Clarke around […]

Siobhan Wilson is a Scottish singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, film and TV composer. A trained cellist from St Mary’s Music School, pianist, guitarist, and composer – she has 10 years of live touring and studio production and after a 5 year stay in Paris, France, has returned to the UK where she has become one […]

Lizeth Ruvalcaba is an artist based in Guadalajara Jalisco, Mexico. She is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who specialises in live looping. Her main instrument is her voice, which she employs to create stunningly ethereal and atmospheric pieces of music. Lizeth has been contributing to the Positive Songs Project since it began. We chatted […]

Why I Write Songs: I write songs because I’m too cheap to go to therapy. Actually, that’s not true, and particularly because I currently am in therapy (affordable therapy is a thing, friends, apparently, and not just the kind you find in best mates, or the bottom of a bottle, or in the back of […]

Tales From The Songwriting Frontline Three weeks ago I heard a rumour from a neighbour, of a Japanese Garden a bicycle ride away from me. Knowing that I had some songs to write (and thus some subject matter or at least a pleasing environment to find) I filed the rumour in my back pocket. […]

First things first, why should you care what I have to say on the subject? It’s a fair question, one I’m asking myself right now… Some backstory: In 2014, before I began my current project Granfalloon, I challenged myself to write a song-a-week every week of that year. It was exciting and it […]