Every piece of music, sound or lyric is connected to a pre-existing one. But still we keep trying to express what’s already been expressed. Trying to be original, trying to be authentic, trying to be unique, wanting to express yourself and your feelings regardless.
Every song, is already copied
Every emotion, already embodied
Every word, has been overheard
Every rhyme, has been deferred
Every song, has been rewritten
Everyone, has learned it different
Every accord, three dots dimmed
Every war, each a hymn
Every verse, has been called with response
Every chorus, has been prolonged
Every Song was written by Nana Adjoa.
Every Song was produced by Nana Adjoa & Wannes Salome.
Nana Adjoa released Every Song on Thu Sep 24 2020.
I was inspired by singing in the hallway in my studio, so I recorded the vocals with a lot of reverb and started recording a very common harmony, a cappella without any instruments and not a lot of thought, which ended up sounding like this. I started writing about singing, about songwriting itself,...
After I had recorded that demo, I had to record a new session because the original one was without any timekeeping, metronome, and I wanted to add stuff that didn’t work out in that sense. So I played this groove with some simple drum machine samples, put down this drone, and re-recorded all of the...
l was actually working on a different track in my studio and was at a dead end. So I took a break and got out. In our building we have this staircase that has a very beautiful natural reverb, so I (and also my band members at rehearsals and other people who have studios there) often start singing wh...