Recently in "rivkah"

Early Saturday evening, my daughter and I were among the forty or fifty lucky people who gathered in an apartment at a secret location somewhere in Paris to watch Rivkah perform at the Oliver Peel Session #16.

She even sang the song we wrote together, Splitting The Atom - and it was the first time I'd ever heard it!

It was quite a moving experience to discover one of my songs in a live setting, as opposed to listening to an mp3, and together with the intimate atmosphere of the "concert en appartement", it all added up to make a beautiful moment for me.

Plus, my daughter told me afterwards she was very proud.

Vielen Dank Oliver, merci Rivkah.

• Splitting The Atom

I'm excited to relate that one of my new musical collaborations is beginning to bear fruit.

Rivkah has already sung some lyrics of mine, performing with eliotE & the ritournelles on the lullaby Wheel of Dreams, and just yesterday she informed me that she has now managed to bash out a melody on her toy piano for a new song I wrote specifically for her a couple of months ago.

This is a new way of working for Rivkah, who is more used to writing her own lyrics (and only after coming up with the music first), so I'm honoured that she liked the words I offered her enough to try and make something out of them.

I haven't even heard the result yet, but I know I'll love it - I love everything about her swirling sound - and I'm too excited to keep the news to myself.

The song is called Splitting The Atom.

• Splitting The Atom

I'm smudie, a Scot living in Paris.

As a lyricist, I write both for and in collaboration with several local artists who sing in English. Some of the people who have sung my lyrics include Nadj, eliotE & the Ritournelles, General Bye Bye, and Rivkah.

I'm always on the lookout for interesting new projects. Send me an email if you think we could work together.

Here are some of my lyrics:

• Nadj
• Cactus
• Jesus Freak
• Pick A Card
• eliotE & the Ritournelles
• Crayon
• Floppy Fringe
• Going Places
• Honeycomb
• La Luna Plateada
• Wheel of Dreams
• eliotE
• Un Arból Sin Raices
• General Bye Bye
• Emmylou
• Flirting With The Camera
• Give It All Away
• Insomnia
• Physics and Maths
• Rivkah
• Splitting The Atom
• OrangeColumbo
• A Slap In The Face
• Carousel
• Carved In Granite
• Curse
• Dirty Fingernails
• I Lay With You
• Pull The Stars Down
• The Hogmanay Children
• Like Every Christmas Eve
• Mau10
• A Kiss, Yes
• The Belfour
  • Africain Climb
  • Tears or Wine
• Others
• Ashtray
• Bubbles
• Catalan Girl
• Cat Lover
• Catching Snowflakes On Your Tongue
• Fashionistas II
• Flowers Fade
• Grip
• Intricate Machinery
• Never
• Outer Space Boy
• Rules Are Made To Be Broken
• Silent Mode
• Smoke Signals
• The Whisper Of The Leaves
• Under A Pile Of Bricks
• "Songs in search of a singer"
• The Beauty Of Your Face
• Been Up
• Black Hoodie
• Bruises
• Deux Doigts (Et Un Glaçon)
• A Dollar You Found In The Street
• A Drunken Text
• A Flemish Painting
• (I'm Leaving) This City
• Itch
• Keep Me In Your Orbit
• The Kind Of Love I'm Looking For
• Kiss By Kiss
• Kite Strings
• Leave Me With Your Scent
• Like A Blanket
• Like A Lover
• Like A Worm
• Margaret and Frances
• An Open Relationship
• Rolleiflex
• Shipwrecked
• Shy With Strangers
• Soles
• Sopita de Ajo
• Teresa
• Through All The Seasons
• Tom
• Your Ex (Is Better Than Me)