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Day One

by Melanie Project

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Day One (and the other 'Days' EP releases) are based on ideas that popped into my head out of whim. Those ideas are then put into recordings despite what turned out. Day One was the first.

It all came down to what I've listened to, just before Day One recording sessions. I was obsessed over heroin party's 'summer made me blue; summer gave me sky' (which is an excellent lo-fi ambient release, go listen to it).

I didn't know whether the chord to my cover of 'when you wake up i'll be gone little cat' was correct (which is further proof of my clumsiness), but it sounded like the song. Other than that, it sounded nothing like the original. I improvised a guitar line over the track and voila!

'this is an experiment' isn't really an experiment; it was an excuse I made to come up with such shoddy sounds and structure that I've almost disowned (Wait til' you see Day Four!).

'space voice is kind of funny' was a happy accident. I had a Casio keyboard that could play a 'Space Voice' preset. It sounded so funny to me at that time, and I went ahead to record it. I then scrapped the sound and went for a minimalist structure, with pianos and ethnic instruments. You can hear a sitar (from the keyboard presets) playing along to the motifs as well. When I gave this track to a certain friend to listen to, what he said was astoundingly accurate (except for the Space Voice section); paraphrased here:

"It sounds like you are reading a book on a wooden floor in a small cozy Japanese bookstore."

That description has stuck with me til' this day.

All in all, I'm proud of the first and last tracks of this release. I could say that I've come to terms to the 2nd track, but I'm not going to lie to myself just yet.

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released September 4, 2016

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