Joe Oppenheimer

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Joe OppenheimerStill I Want You, released 01 June 20181. Still I Want You2. Falling Up3. Old Soul4. Wild HeartWhile most of his fellow law graduates were hard at work studying for exams or out drinking, Joe was more likely to be found back at college, cradling a guitar and teaching himself the craft of songwriting. He began writing songs at the start of his degree and when he graduated 5 years later, he had written over 150 songs on guitar and piano and completed his first EP ‘Time Ticks A Way’ Now, he’s gone back to the basics. After having played around with all the latest toys for music making, he’s come home again to his first instrument, the piano. Recorded on an April day, these tracks embody a soulful side of Joe and tell a story about love, longing and the surrender to possibility. These songs are all connected to real romance, written in the bloom of Melbourne springtime and the subsequent peace of falling leaves in autumn. In Joe's words: "The title track is an ode of yearning, written quickly, a romantic chord progression billowing to flame the obsession of frustrated romance. “What does it take - to make an escape?” I had to thump the chords of the chorus as if the twisted torture of unrequited love could find some peace in the unresolved mantra: “Still I Want You…” Too soon the song is finished, idly ended like the wasted potential of all unbalanced romance. ‘Falling Up’ is earmarked to reappear on an LP later this year, albeit with more than a simple piano and vocal arrangement. The infinitely recurring chorus demands an escape from the pressures of modern day existence by offering instead the surrender of love. The reward of shared vulnerability is true expression, the practice of playfulness and illuminated, clear relationships. For years I’d been jamming on something like ’Old Soul,’ but playing it for my partner-to-be this song was written to commemorate the vision of potentially connecting our lives together - past, present and future. We actually wrote it together! It marks for me the magic of those times which seemed so fateful and conspired to eventually happen - we’re now celebrating two years of love (the spark) thanks to an epic friendship (the flint). ‘Wild Heart’ was written about a kind of acceptance with the comings and goings of love. Beginning life as a bizarre improvisation, the lyrics came in bursts, much later down the track. It’s about how easy it is to become so rigidly attached to someone that you can’t imagine living without them. But we’re also always having a love affair with the universe itself - and if we don’t treat our world right, it’ll shy from us. So in some senses this song is a reminder for me that wherever we find love, we’re also loving the Wild Heart of the universe itself.

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