My submission for Cymatics (Producer Week Beat Contest)!

Matt Santoro - I Know (the Answer)

Put - The - Gun - Down - zz ward cover

Composed on RC505 for a hoola hoop video featuring Leona Rodrigues

Namaaz

Host Bodies + Alexa Jesse (soundcloud.com/alexajesse)

“It’s still dark when singer-songwriter Alexa Jesse arrives at Ocean Beach, San Francisco for the 6AM video shoot with Host Bodies. Their first single together, “Hourglass,” features Alexa gracing a psychedelic dance track built on the live-electronic duo’s swaggering basslines, atmospheric synths, and idiosyncratic drums. Alexa’s lyric, “What will we find at the edge of the night?” seems posed against the beach as surf booms and a breeze carries drifts of sand over the empty Great Highway. 

Director and bassist, Nick Hess, reviews the storyboard with the cameraman while producer, James Collector, prepares to drive his vintage camper van onto the dunes for the opening shot. The day looks clear, a well-timed window between winter storms. Timing has everything to do with Hourglass. After a shared 2020 gig was cancelled by shelter-in-place, Alexa Jesse and Host Bodies started exchanging musical ideas. Hourglass surfaced soon after, a smoky demo that has since evolved into a polished groove mastered by Count Eldridge (Tycho, DJ Shadow, Radiohead) for release on May 19, 2023.

As color creeps into the sky, Alexa steps onto the sand. The music is cued. The camera brings her into focus. By the end of the day, she’ll be dancing barefoot in the waves under a fiery sunset—until then, there is only this present moment and the next, grains falling one by one."

Hourglass - Single

Hourglass

Hourglass (feat. Alexa Jesse)

What It Is

Why Do You Use Drugs?

Lyrics, vocals, & artwork by me.
Beat produced by HvrtzLab.
Mixed & mastered at Idea Studios in Honolulu, HI.

Lyrics:

[VERSE 1]

You were everything to me
Thought you man of my dreams
On the surface ain’t all it seems
Im the fool who got caught up in your scheme

[PRE-CHORUS]

I fell for it, shouldn't have
But I want you really bad
Tell me what I wanna hear
Turn around, disappear
Pretty please don't leave me
I love you
But it’s getting so hard to trust you 

I still took you back
Even tho it hurt me bad
Tell me I'm the only one
Run around, have your fun
It’s painful how much I adore you
I'll prove I'm good enough for you

[CHORUS]

Give yourself some grace
Embrace the mistakes
It will be okay
The world’s now yours to take

[VERSE 2]

I used to think would be forever
But I ain’t tolerating lying endeavors
I see right through you tryna be clever 
Patiently waiting but it’s not getting better

[PRE-CHORUS]

I fell for it, shouldn't have
But I want you really bad
Tell me what I wanna hear
Turn around, disappear
Pretty please don't leave me
I love you
But it’s getting so hard to trust you 

I still took you back
Even tho it hurt me bad
Tell me I'm the only one
Run around, have your fun
It’s painful how much I adore you
I'll prove I'm good enough for you

[CHORUS]

Give yourself some grace
Embrace the mistakes
It will be okay
The world’s now yours to take


[BRIDGE]

I was so blinded by your love
I had to go and give up a light

[PRE-CHORUS]

I fell for it, shouldn't have
But I want you really bad
Tell me what I wanna hear
Turn around, disappear
Pretty please don't leave me
I love you
But it's getting so hard to trust you

I still took you back
Even tho it hurt me bad
Tell me I'm the only one
Run around, have your fun
I proved how much I adore you
Now am I good enough for you?

[CHORUS]

Give yourself some grace
Embrace the mistakes
It will be okay
The world’s now yours to take

#Pop #RnB #NewMusic #Original #MusicTherapy #MusicLovers

ANN FUEGO - Grace (Demo)

Leaked my remix of In My Arms early... if you're here, congrats on finding it! Hope you love my rendition of such a powerful song!

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In My Arms (KEPIK Remix)

2018 - 10 - 18 Never Let Go

Messing around re-creating Maggie Roger's summer vibe before watching her show.

2018 - 10 - 15 Feels Like Maggie Rogers

Lyrics in this song were prompted by Lt. Uhuru’s (Nichelle Nichols) comments to Captain Kirk (William Shatner) in the 1968 Star Trek TV episode, “Bread & Circuses.” The song is the title track from a full-length album in the works—a  collection of songs based on a childlike faith in themes of the cosmos and God, angels and astronauts. Musically it pulls from late 60s experimental pop and psychedelia, surf rock, spy movie music, and future-primitive sounds. I drew inspiration from the moral tales in “The Twilight Zone” TV series, the C.S. Lewis space trilogy, and science fiction books I read in grade school from Scholastic Book Services, particularly books by Alexander Key. Some modern sci-fi (especially in film) is dystopian, depicting the human race as grubby poltroons who deserve to be enslaved by machines or brutal corporate dictators. I defer to a gentler, cleaner, and constructive brand of sci-fi, speaking towards empathy, hope, possibilities, and spiritual dynamics.