This collection of four songs marks my return to Los Angeles after living in New York and my return to solo electronic production after the breakup of my band.  I'm basically picking up where I left off with Wild at Heart only with a renewed sense of confidence in my production and vocal abilities.

 

This is a concept EP as I was trying to compose four songs that referenced the four elements: Fire, Earth, Air, and Water. It also kind of astrological, the title is a reference to the sign of Gemini and my dealings with that sign internally and through relationships. I had dated someone who had a Gemini moon and I had some Gemini friends that were influencing my thought and decisions. The title is also a reference to the vocal layering that I began to do with these songs. There are a lot of duet-like qualities about the songs although I am performing all the parts. This title is also a reference to my boobs cause they get me into trouble sometimes. It's all there on the cover! -A beautiful artwork commission by the Greek artist Georgia TH. I told her my concept and sent her some photos and this is what she came up with!

 

This was all written and produced at home. I did studio recordings of the vocals for A Moment In Space, Oceans, and Epic Canyons.  I had stem mastering done for the same 3 songs.  Burn was produced entirely at home and I still consider it to be in demo format. It was added to the group at a later time after dealing with a lot of writers' block.

 

Software

Logic Express

 

Hardware

Macbook pro, Alesis Micron, Kaoss Pad

 

Song Descriptions - LYRICS

 

Burn

I started this song in early 2013 with the idea of writing a song about twin flames. I had already come up with the concept to write about the elements. The first 3 songs came about organically and I realized the concept after they naturally fell into their categories but I still didn't have a fire song. So,  I was kind of forcing this idea on myself to write about fire in some way since that was the only missing element. I worked and worked but nothing came. Then a couple months later I just decided to just write organically about things I was dealing with at the time and the lyrics just came together. Even the fire aspect.

I think the lyrics speak for themselves and honestly these are some of my favorite lyrics I've ever written. The song is about how we all try to chase this perfect idea of love, what looks good on paper, when none of us are actually worthy of it. 

Even though I finished these lyrics in March, it wasn't until November of 2013 that I actually finished the beat. I struggled getting the overall arrangement together but in the end I was super satisfied with it. I wanted it to have this 70s European movie vibe and for me it succeeds at that. This is the last song that I ever completed using Logic Express. 

 

Epic Canyons

I wrote the bassline one night sometime in maybe February of 2013 and finished the rest in March or April.

I've always loved house music and yet I've never really ventured into fully creating a house song so here is my attempt to do that. I've also really loved writing vocalese and this was the first time I attempted to that for one of my own creations. (I had previously written some while studying jazz vocals in college) I wrote the lyrics to match the bassline.

This song is about feeling conquered, exploited, and colonized, both as a person and a demographic and how I was becoming more real about my anger and vengeance.

 

A Moment in Space

I wrote this song in December of 2012. I had been learning a lot about theories of the multiverse and that was dominating a lot of my thought. I had recently dated someone that made me feel really horrible about myself and used and angry and this song was my way of dealing with it.  I was wondering why I even had to meet him because he was a person that I would never have run into in my daily life and I wasn't even physically attracted to him yet I found myself entangled in his web for a time, consumed, and discharged.  

So I realized that a transition was happening on a higher plane that caused our worlds to collide violently and then separate.

I think this is one of the most intricate beats that I made. I was thinking a lot of 90s bass music like So So Def Bass Allstars and 80s ambient music like Tangerine Dream and Vangelis.

I re-recorded the vocals in a studio and to be honest I wasn't that satisfied with the final outcome. I hate being on a clock when I'm singing and I felt rushed and unrelaxed. But overall I still like the song.

 

Oceans

One of the best things I've ever done. Definitely my best song that I've released so far. I wrote this song in September 2012. During writing this song I got fired from my job but I was glad because it opened up time to really get into writing music. 

This song is basically about the depth of my emotions and my love of the water and its healing qualities. It is a suicide fantasy as well as a celebration of my ability to survive. I constantly find myself in these vulnerable situations where I could be destroyed, I could easily drown, but somehow I just float through it each time. 

The song came about after a stormy dating situation, going to the beach nearly every day for a month, and reflecting on my life in New York after being back home in LA for a year.