Yours portly has been composing a ton of instrumental music over the past year (ten releases since 1 September 2023: Spooky Season, Spooky Season II: Rise of the Cryptids, Leftovers, Firefly Dance, Epistemology, Leftovers II, Four Mages, Advanced Funkification, Heptadic Structure, and White Boy Summer), but my songwriting has lain fallow for some years now. As far as I can tell from my records, the last song I wrote to completion was back in 2019. D’oh!
So I finally sat down this past weekend and hammered a new song, “Tu Me Manques”; it translates to “I miss you” in French, but the literal translation is “you are missing from me”—far more poetic. I took that concept and wrote this 1970s-style piano ballad, with liberal use of common French phrases.
The Portly Politico 