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We were in Ghana, January 2024. The producers, DUKE said; “we made this for Tems, but she didn't use it”. When they played it, right there, the
melodies came to me. I said, know what, I’m going into the kitchen to write the song. I wrote it without listening to the beat, all I had was that
first melody in my head. Usually, I write my songs on paper, but I wrote it on my phone, came out and said to DUKE, let’s record this. We’d had a
long and stressful recording session leading to this point. During recording, that part “all I need…” was so difficult for me to sing. When the mic
was not on my mouth, I’d sing it so perfectly, but when I have the mic, I’d get so nervous and couldn’t sing it. After a while, I finally got
something. I was recording right at the point that I was waiting for my ride to the airport. So the first part of Painless Melody, I recorded in a
haste.
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This was one of the first songs I recorded during my camp in Ghana, 2024. The camp started with some sessions for Sony Music. We
were all busy because there were sessions all day and we couldn’t do much. I had made “Slipping out of time” with just my guitar
in my sister’s apartment in Abuja as far back as 2022. So one morning in the camp, I was playing it and the producers, DUKE were
like; “What song is this? Let’s make the song”. I was already so familiar with the song and it felt impossible for me to share it.
I felt very attached to the song and I didn’t want to subject it to people’s opinion. I didn’t usually play it to people, but I
just felt like playing it that day. That’s how we made it.
I had already started making “Bring you home” on my keyboard in Lagos in 2023. I was listening to a Rex Jim Lawson song “Jolly
Papa” and if you listen, you will hear that it inspired the progression for “Bring you home”. We made it in January 2024 at a camp
in Accra. I worked on the song with DUKE (credited producers). The thing is, when a song is complete, as an artist, you will feel
it. If something is missing from a song, I would aslo have a feeling. Sometimes, you can still think about a song later and say “I
could have done this or that”. But you have to know right now, what you want to do. After listening, I just knew the song was
complete and ready.
I was playing Chess with Michael Brun, I didn’t know him and he didn’t know me. This was during a Sony music camp in Ghana, 2024.
They usually do a kind of get-together as part of the camp. So we go to the beach, there was a Chess board, and we played and
introduced ourselves you know. He tells me he’s a producer and we got familiar We saw eachother again at the camp the next day and
he had the chance to listen to “Bossa Nova” which was one of the only songs I had. They were taking a break from his studio
session so he says; “let’s go into the studio, there’s nobody in there”. In the studio, he started playing something on the
keyboard with a kind of synth and some drum samples. I started humming along and that became the melody of the intro. He recorded
it and said; “You’re a genius bro!”. It all happened in about three minutes. So he sent it to me and I shared it with DUKE, my
producers at the camp. They were like we have to make this. We were able to finish just one verse during the camp. I completed the
song one year later.
