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Como Me Siento Por Ti (Instrumental Version)

Equals

Jasper Tygner, Joe Hertz - Equals

Impromptus EP

Impromptu No. 1 (Apogee)

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ALTERED INVENTIONS

Released: Friday 4th October

"When i came up with the concept for my album i knew that i needed one really euphoric track in the first half of the record to propel the LP forwards. When I heard the original vocal by Alyss i knew that it was perfect for what I wanted. The production of her voice was psychedelic and the lyrics fit perfectly with things i what i wanted the record to say. So I locked myself down in the studio for an afternoon and started tinkering with using the vocal for my own track. Once I got going it just all came out in one burst.

I couldn’t believe it because I had been working quite slowly up until this point. So I thought the way to double check that what I had done was good was to go for a drive and listen to it.
So i put the demo on my phone and drove around the winding coastal road near my house, making mental notes on how it felt as I drove. Driving this road through the bush, around the mountains and cliffs I could hear everything that needed to happen in the track. I rushed home, made the changes and then got in the car again. I repeated this for hours, driving this crazy road away from my house, then back again to make the changes I could hear in my head.

By the end of the day the whole track was done. It sat on the shelf for a long time while I did the rest of the album, as I started to add more drums to the other tracks I started thinking that this one too might need something more. So we recorded drums, then i contacted Alyss and got her to try out some more vocal ideas and the track moved further away from what I had intended it to be. It wasn't until I had the whole album finished that I realised the original version was the truest realisation of the idea. So in a way it was the first and last piece of the album puzzle."

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Winds Alight is out now through Eyegaze. Two tunes that are a bit different in style from my other releases. I wanted them to be shorter, more concise structures that explored a set of variations from simple ideas.
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For Winds, the piece grew out of a short recording of a friend playing a hang drum in India. 

For Alight, it was a small chord sequence that kicked off the writing process - going through different types of variation.
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Central to writing these tracks was a theme of avoiding thinking about what other people would think about a sound, or what I think other artists would do in certain musical situations. I wanted to get rid of that - to simply have more trust in my own musical instinct. If I like it, I'll use it.

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