Ah.. "rainbows." Our second, and most recent release. A song, "my" song, that I (Myka) held onto for a while, with my grip so tight that the poor idea was suffocating in my hand. I felt very confident about the lyrics/message/direction in this song, so I had high hopes for the production. I almost didn't want to touch it because I thought it could never meet the expectations I had subconsciously set for it in my head. Obviously, because you can play it while reading this back story, I got over that. I did so with quite a bit of convincing and regular reassurance (it could probably be considered an annoying amount) from Thomas. One day though, I finally let go and allowed it to morph into whatever it was going to be. I'm a firm believer that everything is/has been/will be exactly how it's supposed to, so with that logic, this recording is exactly that. Thomas really elevated the music, and it really has become "ours."
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To rewind to the fall of 2021, I wrote this in my, at the time, own *tiny* apartment, freshly settled in and tucked back in an old east nashville neighborhood. To recreate the mood, my living room had classic rock posters galore with any remaining white on wall concealed by old earthbound tapestries and acrylic flow paintings. The 1970's, blue, crushed velvet couch was the cherry on top. I wrote it in about half an hour on top of a few random, obscure chords that I discovered on the guitar neck through a healthy amount of trial and error.
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To sum up the meaning of this song, the world is messed up. There is sadness and evil and death and hatred, and it seems like these things are infiltrated within even some of the seemingly good, fun things in this life. Bad things are and have always been happening "behind closed doors" since the beginning of time, yet simultaneously right in front of our faces. Lately, knowledge of these acts are only being revealed to us more and more.
The idea is that, maybe, if the rainbows, such beautiful, natural, colorful, phenomena and the symbols exclusively and originally used for God's glory/love for us could fall out of the sky and shield us from this painful reality, I wish they would. However, the moral of the story is that love is so much more powerful than all of the darknesses combined. It can be overwhelming at times, but we can hold onto hope and love our way through it. That's our way out.
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Recorded by Drew Boals at Dark Horse Studios. Franklin, TN. January 2023.
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Mixed and mastered by our very close, talented friend, JD Gierach.
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Released June 2023.
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Our first single, "won't let us go," was released at start of 2023. We wrote this together in Boone, NC while spending a weekend together at Thomas' family's cabin. A quiet day hanging out in the den and gazing outside at the ice cold creek was quickly transformed into an impromptu songwriting session. At about an hour or so in, this one was born.
It's a good representation of our brand new journey... uniting in marriage and in creativity. We've learned and grown in many ways since that time in the cabin, but we're still proud to call it our first. It has a hopeful message reminding us all to find gratitude and confidence in our salvation, because even when we fall, "His love won't let us go." When times get dark, which they inevitably do, and we feel stuck or far away from hope, we can rest and know that "no shadow too dark... no cloud too grey... no word too sharp can steal my (our) faith away;" it's a bond stronger than we know.
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Recorded at Dark Horse Studios in Franklin, TN, Dec 2022. Big thanks to our sound engineer, Drew Boals.
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Mixed and Mastered by our very close, talented friend, JD Gierach.
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Released Feb 2023.