Steve Davis & The Virtualosos

Songs born from curiosity, brought to life by algorithms, waiting for human hearts to make them whole

Here’s the thing about song ideas: they multiply faster than rabbits in your brain if you don’t give them somewhere to go. Steve Davis & The Virtualosos exists as my escape valve (a way to transform the philosophical fragments, temporal anxieties, and unexpected observations bouncing around my skull into something you can actually hear).

I’m not precious about this process. The Virtualosos are my virtual session band, turning lyrical concepts into musical reality when my guitar skills top out at three chords and my singing voice makes Leonard Cohen sound like Pavarotti. They’re the technical wizards. I’m the bloke with too many questions and an urgent need to get them into shareable form.

Think of this as my musical holding pen (songs made flesh so that gifted performers might find something worth trying on and making their own).

The Philosophy Behind the Project

Music calms our subconscious so we can consciously absorb the stories being sung. That’s why I obsess over lyric-led music that treats listeners like thinking humans rather than passive consumers. Whether it’s Cohen’s philosophical depths, Waits’ character studies, Dylan’s wordplay, Cash’s brutal honesty, or Swift’s narrative precision—words matter when they’re wrapped in melody.

My voice tends toward urgently reflective: racing against time while trying to savour moments, transforming familiar phrases into revelations about connection and what really matters. The music here straddles jazz-influenced temporal meditations, Australian folk observations, relationship repair songs, and philosophical pop that zigs when you expect it to zag.

A Collaboration Invitation

If you’re a performer who gravitates toward stories that turn left when you expect them to go right, these songs are looking for their human. I’m not attached to specific melodies or arrangements (my satisfaction comes from getting these ideas out of my head and heart into a publicly shareable realm where they might find their perfect voice).

Whether you’re drawn to the temporal anxiety pieces, the relationship excavations, or the cultural observation songs, consider this an open invitation to make something your own. The Virtualosos have done their job; now it’s time for human interpretation to take these concepts somewhere unexpected.

The Warning Label

No offence to The Virtualosos, but as long as you’re following human lead, you enrich our lives. Hand over the realm of ideas or leadership entirely to algorithms, and we’ll need to return to our primal roots (our blues roots) and howl about our messy existence to ensure we can still feel a pulse and sit comfortably with being messily, gloriously, imperfectly creative.

Welcome to my musical melting pot. I hope something here speaks to your taste for curiosity disguised as entertainment, and that desperate understanding that time moves too quickly and we often wake up to this reality too late.