arbour

i recorded this song in 2015 on my school's old upright piano. it was my first song that reached a million plays. it is the reason i was able to quit my job and begin my career as a musician full-time.

i remember when i recorded this it was one of my first sessions in an actual recording studio. i was in the studio alone in the middle of the night, running back and forth from the live room to the control room trying to get everything to sound just right. i bounced the whole project through my tape deck and ran the mix through the studio's most expensive hardware compressor just to see what a nice compressor sounded like. the result is a noisy, melancholy theme that i called sunday piano music. 

it was released in 2016 on my debut album entitled "luv songs". luv songs was one of the first projects on spotify under the lofi hip hop genre and was unique in that none of the instruments on the album are sourced from sampled material, everything is original. this trend of making entirely original recordings became a staple of the new direction of the genre as labels got involved, but this album is one of the first of its kind.

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Luv Songs

sunday piano music

there's a train that goes up along the washington coast and along one section, it crosses a secluded bay on a bridge that's only a few feet above the water and it's barely wide enough for the train tracks. i used to go sit in my canoe in the water next to the bridge and watch the train come by in the evening right after the sun had set. the train would always blow its whistle over and over to make sure no one was on the tracks before it got to the bridge. you could sit there and listen to the whistle bounce off the hills and the water and the islands nearby and it was the most beautiful thing to witness. 

for this song, i took my tape recorder out to this exact location and recorded the train blowing its whistle as it approached and passed and i looped the whistle and used it as the main synth in the song. the higher synth that comes in later reminds me of the approaching train whistle as it gets louder and louder and quickly disappears.

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BLUE

drown

y'all ever feel like this

ppl are around you all the time but there's almost no one who is actually there. in real life. that's what inspired this moment, anyway.

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alone

this is a song i made. i've been going thru some shit lately. this is how i feel. you can own this 1 of 1 if you want. i hope it does for you what it's done for me. reach out any time if you ever need anything, we're alll just a bunch of lost ppl on here @prod_arbour : )

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