Day 23 - I wanted to revisit the raw writing and recording style of the Vibrant reset demos, in which most songs were written and recorded in one or two days. This song was made quick and the lyrics came easily as a stream of consciousness. 

The original demos were heavily influenced by Car Seat headrest at the time, but I didn't understand the lineage of Car Seat Headrest taking influence from Pixies. I specifically wanted to capture a lot of the lightning in a bottle moments from Trompe le Monde, like Head On which in turn I think took a lot from the Ramones.

Overall, I think I came back to this musical style with a much better understanding of where my sound was coming from. Coupled with "slightly" better production, Im pretty happy with this overall. The drums and guitar get pretty messy and eventually just fall apart at the end because I really am just playing freestyle. You can kind of think of this song as a freestyle rap but using altrock!

As always thanks for listening!

Wonder Boy

Ethan and I were hanging out for the first time since covid restrictions lifted and I asked "want to make a song?" and this is the result. We made this with the same "go, go, go" mentality of Wonder Boy and finished it in about 90 minutes. 

A theme we were trying to incorporate was whenever one instrument was playing a sad melody, the other would try to play something happy. It panned out decently well, though a lot of background noise makes it into this track and makes it hella lofi. The title is taken from Sunny Day Real Estate because by the time the song was done, it just sounded very much like them even though I doubt either of us knew it was going there.

As always, thanks for listening!

Sunny Day

Recorded 2022-2024
Additional guitar work by Evan Luxenberg

TAKEOFF

Life Of The Mind

Sherlock

The Hard Parts

Samples: Harder Better Faster Stronger (Daft Punk)
                 Daftendirekt (Daft Punk)
                 Billy Jean (Michael Jackson)

Harder Better Faster Stronger [Remix]

Song Credits:
Written by Kameel Khan, Evan Luxenberg, Chris Tardy
Lyrics, Vocals, Piano by Kameel Khan
Guitar, Bass by Evan Luxenberg
Synth, Drums by Chris Tardy

Mixed and Mastered by Chris Tardy

Vibrant Reset, Kameel Khan 2018 ©

Junkie Feat. Kameel Khan

A french cover of the song Picture of Girls by Wallows (Atlantic Records)
Composition by Wallows
French lyrics by me
and all the sounds you hear by me (including the bad ones :/)

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