Greetings earthlings earthlings and a very warm welcome to another exciting installment of soda jerker on songwriting. Now pardon our flagrant and modesty but we reckon we've pulled

another rabbit out of the hat for you in the form of today's guest,

songwriter, producer and drummer par excellence, Nara de Michael Walden.

Yeah, I'm quite excited about this one.

I personally first became aware of Naurada's name after

hearing the song Jump to the Beat by Stacey Latasaw on a disco compilation

many moons ago. It's a great song. It is. And being a bass player, a bass junkie, in fact, I was instantly struck by the coolness of the baseline,

not to mention the ridiculously catchy chorus.

And on the same compilation was A Shoulda Lovedja, a song we touched on in the episode with Ali Willis if you'll remember.

Yeah, it comes up a lot, that song actually, doesn't it?

It does, and why not? I say. And I had a similar production style, a distinctive chromatic

baseline and instantly

singable chorus but the voice on that track was that of Narda himself who had

transpired had written both tracks produced them and played drums on them.

What a talented sod. them and played drums on them. He performed these duties on a number of solo albums such as

Garden of Love Light, Awakening, The Dance of Life, Victory, Confidence and Divine Emotion.

And incidentally for any four-string Freaks like me,

each one of those albums has more than its fair share of muscular in your face bass lines.

Muscular.

They're muscular and sinewy.

Much like my physical appearance.

Both the songs that Brian mentioned were written and recorded at the tail end of the 70s,

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