Produced by Fran O'Hanlon and Guy Massey
Mixed & mastered by Guy Massey
String arrangement by Fran O'Hanlon
Strings by Sal Herbert and Ian Burdge
Written by James Jeremiah Murphy
 
Mezanmi is a Creole word which has it's origins in the French, 'mes amis' and when I was thinking about songs that tied to that theme, this one immediately came to mind. It's a song that evokes so many different moments and people for me and the original perfectly balances this driving euphoria with a feeling of wistful nostalgia. I wanted to transform the song into a version for strings, voice and synthesiser so set about building the score.

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All My Friends (LCD Soundsystem Cover)

Like Spun Gold

Written and performed by Fran O'Hanlon, featuring Jessie Buckley
Engineered, mixed and mastered by Guy Massey
Produced by Guy Massey and Fran O'Hanlon

Lyrics:

At the height of the summer
In the haze of a heavy heat
Wishing well to the lovers, our friends, 
For all their lives ahead
As we carried them off their feet

And all that had been
And all that would follow on from 
Fixed in a moment, aching to happen 
Waiting to fall

But right now we’re two strangers with no idea at all

And at times there’d be blue skies 
Soft eyes, sunlight
And at times there’d be storms 
But when I was lost
You were an anchor; you kept me warm 
But how could we know that?

Right now we’re two strangers with no idea at all

Keep hold of me, love
Plant me in one of your pots
Just give me water and sunlight
And feed me a lot
Planting soft kisses on the tip of my nose 
Sowing seeds of love to see how it grows

But we didn’t know that
How could we have known that? 
We couldn’t know that
Until the seconds rise and fall

Right now we’re two strangers with no idea at all

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Two Strangers

Two Strangers (feat. Jessie Buckley)

The Numbers

Beautiful Town 'feels like a singalong to the end of the world'. It's a song full of warm electronic polyrhythms, while Fran O'Hanlon muses about the fragile relationship between us as humans and the world around us. Taken from Mezanmi's debut album, 'Always Upwards', which is out now, it was co-produced with Grammy Award-winning engineer and mixer Guy Massey. Beautiful Town features additional guest vocals from Kieran Brunt (Shards, Lost Boy). 

O'Hanlon was selected as one of the winners of the Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition in 2020 and has supported Van Morrison, The 1975, Kathryn Joseph and Nadine Shah. He is both a musician and an NHS palliative care doctor. 

Find all of Mezanmi's music and updates at www.mezanmi.net

Beautiful Town (radio edit)

Original film score for 'We/Us' directed by Oliver Warren and AJ Vaage

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28318125/?ref_=nm_knf_c_1

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