Hello, this is David Delmar, your host of SuperPower Creatives, and you’re listening to our episode, Conscious Free Song Creation. I believe everyone is a creator, and it’s this inherent birthright that’s the source of our super powers. Stepping into this personal authority is scary, though. This show celebrates creatives that stay true to who they really are, making a living using their creative super power. The stories they share will excite and inspire listeners to do the same, making positive change in the world.
I’m really excited to introduce our guest for today’s show. He is such a musical talent, and his unique way of expressing his artistry made me an instant fan. Ed Roman is an award-winning singer-songwriter, performer, and multi instrumentalist from Shelburne, Ontario, Canada. Blurring the lines between pop, rock, folk, and country music genres, Ed’s uniquely crafted songs. And they are super uniquely crafted. I love them. Have received regular rotation on more than 100 radio stations across North America and more than 600 stations worldwide. Ed is a 2014 Artist Music Guild Award nominee, a 2014 International Music and Entertainment Association Award winner, and a 2018 nominee. And this list is so impressive, a two-time, 2015 IMEA Award nominee, a 2015 and 16 Josie Show Awards winner, an Academia Awards winner, and a two-time Indie Music Channel award winner. And he recently won a 2017 radio music award for Best Americana Artist. His latest release, the critically acclaimed Red Omen, at EdRoman.net. Ed that is so impressive! My goodness. Those are some cool awards. Congrats on all that. So hello. Welcome. Thanks for being here, man.
Hey, David. I’m always happy to be on this show and talking about my creative super powers.
Well, you have come to the right show, then brother, because that is what we’re all about here, is that very thing. Wow, it is great to have you here. And super excited to get into our talk a little bit. But, hey thanks for being the authentic artist you are and demonstrating for others what it’s like when you’re really, truly being your true self in your art and how you take that and make that into your life. And you are the quintessential example of that. And I think that’s just totally amazing. Well, today, we’re talking about our show Conscious Free Song Creation. And in particular, what Jim thinks about Conscious Free Song Creation and how he potentially approaches his song creation process utilizing it. So I should say, Ed. Sorry. I called you the guy I was talking to this morning. So, Ed, what is your creative super power?
Yoda didn’t wear disco shoes.
Well, I don’t know. For all of a sudden, I want to say Yoda didn’t wear disco shoes. And I like disco shoes sometimes, but I guess the authenticity of feeling out creativity is more like following a river, or at the same time, letting the river pull you through its dimensions more so. And for me, life can be a really special place if you allow it to be that way. And even in my own personal perspectives, writing music for me, or lyrics, that is a super power in a way because I relinquish so much in the process. And at the same time, take in maybe less even than I’m releasing. But the release is that sort of reflection, let’s say, of everything that’s been kind of going on.
And it comes in all these little pockets, these little pods, words and broken phrases. Mr. Tesla, you ain’t got nothing on me. That was a lyric I wrote from a team a while back. And for me, people say well how do you write a song, like how do you sit down and do it? Is there some method? Is there some, like in Dead Poets Society, where they’re talking about what measures a good poem or sonnet, and you put it up against this graph? For me, that isn’t a part of the equation. What it is, is like I said, the relinquishment of yourself through the process. You may get sparked and find that energy point and go, hey, I’m really excited about talking about this. I really want to write about this experience, this thing I’ve heard, or what I’m feeling. But what’s so magical about it is that when you listen more than you think, you start to develop this philosophy through the process. Like I said, it almost pulls you. The river pulls you down it. You can’t … it’s hard to fight the river. So sometimes going with the flow is the best thing of all, and then, there’s that allowance for anything can happen, even in cross referencing of ideas and genres.
And I like that because it’s like, we were talking off air, and I was like, you’re excited what’s going on in Canada. I know inevitably somewhere in my garden there’s gonna be some cross pollination going on. And I’m gonna end up with some hybrid gourd somewhere between a zucchini and a squash. And I’m gonna really like it. I’m gonna love and understand the experience of how it all just sort of kinetically happened. And that’s why I guess Yoda and the disco shoes came up because it’s like, as crazy as it is, it’s almost like the force. It’s like allowing, even as hard as it is to save a negative, to flow through you as you need to, as a result, you find the positive confluence on the other side. And again, it’s the relinquishment of it, allowing it to occur, and allowing it to happen.
My super power would be writing.
So I guess that’s what it is for me. My super power would be writing, and not only that … we were talking off air, overcoming that of my own personal struggle of being labeled a dyslexic and going through the process of having a hard time academically and things that are like that. It doesn’t mean that creativity can’t flourish, just because it doesn’t fit into the framework. That’s not what creativity’s about.
Yeah, framework and creativity, there’s like, there’s a skeleton. And then with inside that skeleton is creativity, and if creativity chooses to go way out of that, then that’s what creativity does. Like you said, it’s sort of like the, creativity is the river. And it is the flow. And it’s a powerful source. And I love that answer, like I’m gonna go back and look at my notes because I’m gonna implement already some of that in my own creation process because I just, I love that. That’s just, I would have loved to have put it that way. You mentioned something about dyslexia and how it’s affected your life. We’re gonna cut to a break real quick because I want to come back, and I want to hear about what’s going on in your life with dyslexia and how you’re helping kids right now with some amazing, super exciting projects you have going on with that. So before we do take a quick break, though, Ed, I want to ask people … I want to ask you where people can go to find out more about you.
Sure, well EdRoman.net, as you mentioned off the top of the show is where you can go. My social networking buttons are there. If you’re on Facebook and you go to Ed Roman the video, what we’re talking about and this project as you mentioned, and everything that’s going on with the dyslexics society and the new video releases is all on there. But as I mentioned, through the website, you’ll also get my Twitter. You’ll get my Instagram. You’ll get my YouTube channel. And it’s all special Ed Roman, wherever you go, whether it’s Twitter, or it’s Facebook, or it’s Instagram or whatever. So come by and check out what’s going on. I’m really excited to present the stuff to people.
Absolutely people, and do. You gotta go check it out. It’s outstanding. All right, so we’ve been talking with Ed Roman today about Conscious Free Song Creation. We’re gonna take a quick break, and when we come back, we’re gonna stay with Ed on this cool little journey, and let you out there listening know how you can start to utilize what he’s sharing to improve your own songwriting.
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Music Credit: Words and Music written and performed by David Delmar. Engineered and produced by John Keenan.
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