I asked on my IG Story what song you would like for me to cover and I picked 3 from your responses. Here's the first one! Thank you for suggesting this! Beabadoobee's songs are just so precious and I hope did it justice. I was thinking of a visual to come with it and I remembered I had clips of our trip to Bicol last 2019. This was really nostalgic and it made me want to travel more and take videos when the pandemic ends. Hoping we can all go on road trips again sometime sooner. ✨

Coffee - Beabadoobee (Cover)

A collaborative track with sound artist Levi Masuli.
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I wrote “Luck” during a time of confusion and when things that I used to love started to feel meaningless to me. Despite that, the universe was kind enough to keep me around the company of people who made me feel it’s okay to think and live differently. I picked up my guitar and suddenly, it all felt new again. I penned the song thinking about how thankful one must feel to have that opportunity to come across people who you can be your most authentic self with. 

Special thanks to Levi Masuli for capturing the song’s intent. I sent him the demo without explaining what it’s about, but it’s as if he understood it completely and proceeded to do his magic. His field recordings and his arrangement for the synths and strings provided more layers in the storytelling of this song. 
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Luck

What stroke of luck
To find a rarity
In a sea of pretense
Where love seems uncanny
And everyone’s feeling funny

What stroke of luck
To hear the harmony
In an array of sounds
Disguised as a background noise
Muffling the beating void

What stroke of luck
To look it in the eye
And hold its hand in mine
It’s alive and breathing
The same air as me
The same air as me
The same air as me
The same air as me

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Written & Performed by Nikki Nava
Produced by Levi Masuli
Mixed & Mastered by Levi Masuli
Artwork by Nikki Nava

Luck (with Levi Masuli)

i love the latest song from NewJeans and the chorus keeps repeating in my head so i thought of making a cover! forgive my korean juseyo ~ 
hope you like it x

/alternate title: newjeans - super shy cover - sad girl version/

NewJeans - Super Shy (Cover)

the new mitski album has been a good companion to me lately. this song tugs at my heartstrings the most along with “heaven."
there’s something so cathartic whenever she sings, “a whole cake!” hope i channeled the same intensity. enjoy this voice memo cover from me.

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I don't like my mind, I don't like being left alone in a room
With all its opinions about the things that I've done
So, yeah, I blast music loud, and I work myself to the bone
And on an inconvenient Christmas, I eat a cake

A whole cake, all for me
Ooh, aah

And then I get sick and throw up and there's another memory that gets stuck
Inside the walls of my skull waiting for its turn to talk
And it may be a few years, but you can bet it's there, waiting still
For me to be left alone in a room full of things that I've done

A whole cake, so please don't take
Take this job from me
A whole cake, so please don't take
Take my job from me

Mitski - I Don't Like My Mind (Cover)

By Bombay Bicycle Club

"Flaws"

Taking the second plan,
Begging to understand,
Life of a selfless man.

'Cause out of all the flaws I've stumbled on,
It's the hardest one to focus on.
It's the hardest one to focus on.

Why are you calling up?
Isn't one enough?
Giving up all she's got.

'Cause out of all the flaws I've stumbled on,
It's the hardest one to focus on.
It's the hardest one to focus on.

Flaws - Bombay Bicycle Club (cover)

Happy Valentines!

Music by Nikki Nava
Art by Patricia Beatriz Bernardo

Lyrics:

Everybody waits for February
Everybody hopes they're far from misery
Does being foolish make one immune?

Glastonbury - I wish I can catch you there
Not a dancer, but there's something in the way
You shrug your shoulders I know it's true

Let me travel back in your time
Let me see the scars in your mind
Oh how lucky are the stars on your arm

Everybody thinks I'm losing my mind
Everybody's got their private universe
I can heal your broken jaw
Make you let go of your gun
That way you'll never want to disappear

Ooh Ooh 

I can heal your broken jaw
Make you let go of your gun
That way you'll never want to disappear

Let me travel back in your time
Let me see the scars in your mind
Oh how lucky are the stars on your arm

February, never thought it just become
February, will you be my valentine

Download this track for free: https://nikkinavamusic.bandcamp.com/album/feb-oh-wary

February

Because I never got the chance to see Bon Iver live in Wanderland, I'm just gonna cry like this. 

x

Skinny Love - Bon Iver Cover

Instead of getting bored during a brownout, I picked up my guitar and played a few song covers. Here's one! I recorded this with my phone and there's a lot of background noise that you can even hear my brother coughing at some point, some dogs barking, and tricycles coming and going. 

Anyway, I really love this song even if the lyrics are kinda dark. 

Lo, in the Leaves 
by The Happiest Lion

Simple little fear, I felt it
But lo, in the leaves, ain't no hint of home
The sun will resign, say moonlight
Will you be a brother and lead me to the lake?
I've got to wash that sin away
Well my blood ain't right
I'm boiling
And my pores don't cry for no reason

Well I was sleeping in the mud,
Where I came from
When the dirt became a river and carried me away
And it felt so natural, my bloodline
We die like animals but we've got graves
Someone's got to mourn what goes away
So evergreen, will you cry for me?
I am washed up 'neath your needle boughs

I burst, my chest ablaze with light
I hate you, oh you know I do
But I wanted to go like you
Solemn 'neath the cruel moon
Stars you've seen us fall like flies

Brownout Sessions #1

Lo, in the Leaves - Happiest Lion (Cover) // Brownout Sessions

just something i recorded with my phone a few weeks ago. this song is called "secrets". for all the friends we love and we feel hurt for.

Secrets

the truth is out there on your mind
the truth's so tender and kind
do you mind if you could tell me
all your secrets?
cause you're all i want to know
and you're all i want to learn

will you forgive me if i tell the world
of your kisses from before?
my heart is a garden dry
but with your arms open wide
come the light and the rain
from your voice and pain

i will just look into your eyes
maybe then i'll know why
there are secrets you would tell me
but it feels so painful everytime i hear them

ohh

x


tulog na me.

goodnight, earth / secrets

This beautiful track is originally by Wolf Alice. I'm deeply in love with it at the moment. 

Lyrics

Your mum created you a small heaven
I was there just an hour
I could tell that you'd be leaving
So cruelly beyond all our power

Go heavenward
Like all earth angels should

I'm gonna celebrate you forever
You taught us things we all should learn
Yeah, I'm gonna celebrate you forever
And long to see you when it's my turn

Go heavenward
Like all earth angels should

I see you dancing on, you dancing on

Heavenward - Wolf Alice (Cover)

Recorded this while I was taking a short break from work.

Heat Wave - Snail Mail (Cover)

been wanting to do a cover of this song since i first heard it. finally had the chance to. btw, on the cover is a photo i took of my parents while we're on way to bicol. 

hope y'all like it!

Ooo - Karen O (Cover)

Slice of life, voice memos, and late night ramblings.

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