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.
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Braye
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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