My voice memos are like a diary, lots of little songs that go nowhere, making it up as I go.  Expression in the moment of the feeling.  Occasionally it just flows into something that encapsulates that moment and feeling, in a way that could never be written down or recreated in a studio. It might not make sense to anyone else, but it does to me. 

Listen to this one on good speakers or headphones, hard to hear on a small speaker.  Gotta stop recording things on an iPhone right

The original track is- https://soundcloud.com/juan-rios-beats/juan-rios-otono?si=60a746c698f849a1bc44e52bf8bbcce4&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

for that sound

who knows

first time i sang this after i wrote it.. it never sounded the same again

Instinct

Altitude

where is the sound

little beat I made 
  thx. to jane austen (rip) & bbc for the sample

jane

sample is ann peebles, i can't stand the rain, 1974 . . xx . .

rain><mix

 6 19 16, 3.33 PM
in honor of getting to go to the beach yesterday for the first time in a month after surgery --  THIS is how i feel about the ocean. recorded right next to her at midnight with the moon, mars and jupiter making a perfect △ above the horizon   -my favorite part is the bird who wanted to sing too (listen)-   xx

by the sea    x

Wild, not so fun fact about this song — 
I freestyled the original base vocal while living in an apartment that had extremely high levels of toxic black mold. I was getting sick constantly and having a ton of health issues, not knowing why at the time. Looking back, I believe the lyrics were my subconscious mind telling me to get the hell out of that apartment! 

“Somebody take me away” and “I can’t be here no, I can’t stay” .. all these years later, knowing now that it was the mold making me sick, I see the lyrics that flowed so freely from me at the time as a legit message from within. 

Black mold is a neurotoxin that is smaller than the blood-brain barrier, can cause brain fog, confusion or loops, and health/ nervous system issues — explaining the feeling of being stuck in a loop, and “something’s eaten away at my brain,” another lyric in the song. Moral of the story: mold is the worst! And more importantly, I’m going to listen closer to my deep instincts that come out in songwriting. If you made it this far, thanks for reading :)

pain-sun-loop

borrowed this beat - https://soundcloud.com/bess-one/ufo

these ones

you said

underwater everything

free palestine

guitar by jon mann, we made this up as we went along

jon-jan-jam

sometimes i like to sing. mostly i like to smoke and listen...

janamichelles

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