Felly

OUT MY HEAD
Released Oct 29th, 2020

I remember Oliver coming over early in the morning with an insane energy - and we would work on music almost as an exercise to get out of our own heads.  To get out of thought.  I was feeling "loneliness".   It was created during the sunset of a relationship where you'd much rather talk yourself into the idea that you're over it/have moved on, but knowing you're still caught.  Knowing that the wound is still too fresh for any convincing.  Make music.  

We wrote and recorded this in two very, very long days.

Later mixed by Ben Baptie in England.  

I have always felt like Oliver knows what's going on with my spirit whether he is conscious of it or not - but there are certain things I've heard him say to me that do not sound like anything a human would say.   Almost, extraterrestrial/spiritual advice that would come from him.  Mind reading.  Which would lead to some of our favorite records.  This song set the stage for my later record Bones, which has a similar color

Watch the video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPYjzfmLzU0

Produced and Written by Felly and Oliver Malcolm

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Out My Head

Think of what we could do if you stopped acting crazy.

Horchata is warmth. I remember making this in my early days at University of Southern California.  It was right after I moved out of the dorms and into a small 2 bedroom with my roommate Gyyps. It was during a really positive time when I could feel and understand the nature of life - and how its a never ending process of up and down.  If I remember one thing from school, it's this one line from an economics book -  "The economy operates through irrational waves of optimism and pessimism".   This line hit me because I felt like it was metaphoric for how people move - how I myself move.  So much of what we do and think is irrational.  And just knowing that it's irrational, that awareness I think is special.   It's sort of like, ok now you know the deal.  Took me 20 years to figure that out. 

This idea sort of shaped the whole next album to come, "This Shit Comes in Waves."  And I think this track in particular is one of the main songs that captures the essence of that album.  We play this song almost every show we play live.  I'm currently on tour and I watch what this song does to people every night.  It makes people with no rhythm move, it makes cold people soften up, and has the feeling of warmth I hope to bring forward with all of my sounds.

Horchata is also quite childish and innocent.  The bars make me smile in nostalgia - I was so fresh faced to the world when I made it.  Coming from the east coast, I wasn't used to the latin influence that brings life to Southern California.  A lot of new tastes, new energies, people, rhythms.  The ocean.   I was absorbing it all.   Horchata marks a great time in my life and is now what me and my touring homies call, a "cult classic" ;)

Thank you all for listening and supporting.

Track 3 on This Shit Comes in Waves.
Released August 17, 2015

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Horchata (WAVES)

Oceans V2 is me in my most child-like form.  Released August 18th, 2017.

This song is the innocence of home - If you're lucky enough to have a relatively stable home.  It's more of a journal entry than a song - sort of like my song Fabrics, where the verses sort of go as long as they need to... with no real rules to follow.  I recorded it myself I believe when I was in college in Los Angeles. 

 I've watched the reach of this song go far beyond what I thought it was at the time, though after it was made I felt like I had put out a piece of myself that was inevitably going to bring itself to fruition one way or the other.  But it happened to be Oceans V2.  

This is a song my friends and I on the road joke about as a "cult classic" - something the die-hard fans know word for word.  Something that shouldn't fit at your typical high energy show but if it's played people may erupt.  The wonders of vulnerability. 

V2 - everyone asks me about what this means.  You can see it in songs like Wood V2.  I think those are the only two....I still wonder what it means but I know when to put it there.  I think it has something to do with the song feeling like a demo.  Almost something that shouldn't come out but is the dark horse.  I was born after a miscarriage.  I feel like a V2 myself.

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Oceans V2

Wood is a song I wrote and self produced.  Released in December of 2019 after months away from home on tour.  Drained but with good intentions.  Sad but hopeful.  I remember being obsessed with wood during the time of making this song, which is probably how it got this title.  Wood as in the material.  I started to buy a bunch of hand-crafted wooden furniture/designs for my studio and was super into the texture, the smell, the feel of it.  I wasn't sure why my heart was pulled to it.  One day I got a tarot card reading and the person literally said, "Putting yourself around wood would be really good for you right now, something grounding... try to maybe go to a forrest". I'm open minded of course but it was definitely odd to hear the synchronicities in the tarot-readers advice.  Maybe I smelled like wood. 

It's part of the V2 series which is more so, stream of consciousness styled stuff.  Almost with a demo-structure to it rather than songs that abide by some rule of arrangement.   

I'm happy this song is out in the world.  I had a deep seated feeling of fear before putting it out, because of how vulnerable it was.  But if I've learned anything that feeling is usually a good sign that you're telling the truth.

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Wood V2

So You Fell in Love is me talking to my younger self.  I have many younger selves.  I also have many kids who have been part of my journey who reach out and always seem to be going through whatever I am, right after I just went through it.   So after seeing the dozens of messages about how to deal with a relationship ending, in any capacity, I thought a song would do.

It's one of the more cohesive records I feel like I've made.  Usually when I'm the one recording myself, and dialing in each specific sound I feel like my personality is imprinted a bit deeper.  I was listening to a lot of Jai Paul at the time.   I really liked his song Do You Love Her Now.  Which inspired the title for this.

The color of it blue.  I'm really hot about the sub bass because it's an 808 but played like a dub-reggae bass line.  Which was, exciting...

Thank you to everyone listening and supporting.   The song has almost 2 million plays on Spotify alone.  Released independently during year 2020. 

 Mixed, mastered, produced by Felly.

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So You Fell in Love

Musician/Artist. Los Angeles

Instagram: @Felly

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