Following their departure from music in 2021, Faye moved on from songwriting and music production to discern other vocational interests that would be as meaningful, motivating, and fulfilling as music making had once been. Four years later, Faye is back with the unreleased EP that they had recorded in late 2018. The Air You Take In is an EP of demo tracks featuring four unpolished songs that Faye wrote and developed during post-college ambiguity and existential dread. The release of the EP never felt truely possible and was delayed to the point of being perpetually hidden from the world, or lost, as indicated in the EP’s subheading. The release of these songs is an act of letting go of the idea of a perfect song, sound, or modality. The Air You Take In lays out a collection of emotionally intimate narratives of navigating loss, grief, death, and the process of self discovery. 
Grateful for the opportunity to share their music with people that enjoy their melodic vision and creative lyricism, Faye would like to thank their friends, comrades, confidants, collaborators, co-conspirators, and creative supporters for continuing to inspire Faye to dream and authentically choose music for themselves first. Faye would also like to thank their therapists, without whose guidance and unconditional positive regard, these songs may never have been written. 
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The Hunger (rough demo)

Absolutely Dust (rough demo)

East Tennessee Requiem (demo)

Dry Kiss (demo)

Final mix of Absolutely Dust, origionally written and recorded in Boulder, CO in 2018.

Absolutely Dust

Final mix of Dry Kiss, origionally written and recorded in Boulder, CO in 2018.

Dry Kiss

This final mix of East Tennessee Requiem, origionally written in 2016 and recorded in Boulder, CO in 2018, has accomplished the profound and promising capacity for musical frisson that it origionally showed as just a single, evocative thought of melody. Since its first conceptualization, several versions of the song have been recorded and performed live over the course of two years. Every creative and unique musician that has stepped up and/or sat in to play East Tennessee Requiem has each brought their own musicianship into the song's aesthetic and development. This final version seamlessly weaves together harmonies created in recording sessions, improvisationally developed musical dialogue from live performances, and the origional vision of cello in the guiding cadence. 
East Tennessee Requiem is a love letter to the passage of time in existential crisis, heart ache, and Tennessee.

Acknowledgements for East Tennessee Requiem:
Faye would like to express sincere gratitude to every collaborator who contributed to this song, directly or indirectly. 
A special thank you to the teaching faculty of Naropa University's former music program, where the origional thought of this song was born.
Paul Fowler, Mark Miller, and Janet Feder for their warm and dedicated guidance, empathic musicianship, and supportive expertize. Additional thanks to the Naropa recording studio and Jake Cacciatore for fascilitating the recording engineering class that produced this song's first recorded version.
Thank you to the mentors I worked with at Madelife who supported this final version of East Tennessee Requiem. Special thanks to Sean Peuquet, my ever patient composition instructor, and Jay Elliott, my tenacious and amazing sound engeneer.
Finally, deepest appreciation for Alvaro Saldaña and Christine Sears.
To Alvaro, whose steadfast friendship, determination, and incredible musicianship as an improvisor, engineer, and flautist gave this song a life of its own.
And to Christine, whose care and attention to this piece made for a more beautiful story and cello motif than could ever have been imagined.

East Tennessee Requiem

Something of an autumnal lullaby this track is an acoustic folk cover of Marceline the vampire queen's song "Everything Stays" from the show Adventure Time. Faye sings this cover featuring Alvero on Bass and Bright Pearson on fiddle.

Everything Stays (Adventure Time cover)

This track is an original song written by the talented Lillolive and covered and live performed by Faye, featuring the acoustic guitar accompaniment of Alvero.

See Lillolive's Original music here: https://soundcloud.com/olivia-scammell

Weathering (Lillolive live cover)

This is the final mix of Faye’s original song and year-long project, East Tennessee Requiem. The track features guitar and flute improvisation by Alvero Saldaña, who also mixed the track.

This is Faye’s cover of an Indigo Girls cover of the Dire Straits song, Romeo and Juliet.

Romeo and Juliet cover

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