CLEO REED PARIS SHOW - March 8th 2024

Music and Lyrics by Ella Moore
Produced by Ella Moore
Recorded by Ella Moore in her bedroom
Mixed by Ella Moore in Her bedroom
Mastered by Jeet Paul at Engine Room Audio

Photography/Design by Caroline Wallis and Corinne Wight

Girl of Lamont 2016 ©


Drive Me Down

B-side.

Recorded, Produced + Mixed by Cleo Reed @cleoforshort
Additional production by Jahmir Duran-Abreu @jahmirsworld
Mastered by Eric Martin @ericmartinmusic

Photo by Lauren Davis @killauren 
Design by Eric Martin + Cleo Reed

Change My Mind (interlude)

A-side.

Recorded, Produced, and Mixed by Cleo Reed
Mastered by Eric Martin @ericmartinmusic

Photo by Lauren Davis @killauren
Design by Eric Martin + Cleo Reed

Vulnerable

“...ode to Black music mothers who have come before me. I felt a need to release this track and embrace the true impact my predecessors have had on early American music. When Terri Lyne Carrington (Grammy Award-winning Jazz/R&B musician) suggested I sing this song for NPR Turning the Tables, I was ecstatic because it is a song so dear to my own childhood. I always want to try and push the boundaries of what Traditional music can be, so I decided to work on this track in Ableton with some live looping to create something fresh. I hope listeners can hear how I’ve bridged my knowledge of innovative music technology with this Negro Spiritual to make a version that is indicative of Black Music’s past, present, and future.” - Cleo Reed

Lyrics:
Sometimes I feel like a Motherless Child
Sometimes I feel like a Motherless Child
Sometimes I feel like a Motherless Child
And a long, long way from home, a long way from home

True believer
True believer
A long, long way from home
A long, long way from home

Producer: Cleo Reed
Vocals Recorded by MANICA
Guitar Recorded by Cleo
Mixed by Cleo Reed and Alexander
Music and Lyrics: Negro Spiritual in the Public Domain.

Motherless Child

Situationship X break up w ur bf, i'm bored

Produced by Heading and Cleo Reed
Written by Ella Moore and Teo Hedigan
Mixed by Ella Moore
Mastered by Ella Moore
Special Thanks to Cressida and Taira

You say you’ve got 
Feelings that you won't stop
Shame we both know
You’re showin' love for ego
But, it’s true!
Oh, it's true!
Oh, we do
Oh, we do
Change my ringtone, 
Switch lanes alone
Bus ride too slow
Vroom, vroom
Choo, choo  
Choo, choo
Choo, choo!

No more so-da
In my Range Ro-ver
This year is o-ver and
No, ya can’t sleep o-ver
No ya, no ya can’t sleep over
No ya, no ya can’t sleep over
Over, Over, Over

Lake in my mind
The safest place to deep dive
Eatin' cake all day
Could never be a mistake!
Oh, it’s true!
Oh, it’s true!
Oh, I do
Oh, I do

Carbonated flavor
I’m my own savior!
Buy my own chaser
Save me from your favors!
I don’t need ‘em, I don’t need ‘em, need 'em, need 'em

No more so-da
In my Range Ro-ver
This year is o-ver and
No ya can’t sleep o-ver
No more soda (No, ya can’t sleep over)
In my Range Rover (over)

Rover

I learned early that my sexuality would always be subjected to many forms of discourse and abuse, even in circumstances most professional and settings that were in need of my skill. As many black women are underrepresented and exploited in the NYC scene, I ask “what visual can represent the reclamation of space?” The journey to reclaim is something that should have the space to feel sensual, enraged, archetypical, brazen…

“Breasts Got Big” is a song inspired by the circumstances where men plague spaces for art-making with misogynoir.

credits
released December 4, 2020
Directed and Edited by Cleo Reed
Shot by @hay.ek (on iPhone)

Breasts Got Big!
Written, Produced, Engineered, Mixed + Mastered by Ella Moore
Thank you Darryl10k.

lyrics

YEA, YEA,YEA
I just logged in, I could barely breathe,
and since my breasts got big, now you listenin’
My Tech Ladies ring-shift 2 deez industries
cuz when they takin’ up dat space, das a luxury!
Yea, my mama made a legacy
n my intelligence cradles my sensuality
y’all finna centre not censor my true reality
cuz I could give a fuck if u gon’ try 2 measure me, yea
so thick it might set u off
lord knows what might set u off
yea, u so hard-headed — it gon’ set u off
lord knows what might set u off
I don’t give a fuck what it costs, 
you gonna move to da side, that’s gon’ set u off
I’m only gonna give it to you raw, 
so move to da side it might set u off yea, off yea, off, off yea

Breasts Got Big!

hi sweeties <3,

i made this demo last nov and felt like it needed to be shared. shouts out to every part time job i've been laid off or fired from this year :) hoping u enjoy

warmly,

cleo reed

Written / Produced by Cleo Reed
Additional Samples | DJ by Val Jeanty
Violin by Ángela Varo
Sun Ra Interview (Helsinki, 1971)
Mixed n Mastered in Cleo's Room

Cleo Reed

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