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CMU Approved
Approved: Sandunes
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 19 May 2020
Producer Sandunes returns with her latest EP release this week; her second for the !K7 label after last year’s ’11:11′. Washed in her signature laidback sound, the first single from the new record, ‘Fifty Percent’, carries an emotional heft that leaves it ticking like a time bomb in the back of your head long after its last notes ring out.
“This song is very close to my heart”, says the producer, aka Sanaya Aredeshir. “I heard Trey Anastasio in a documentary once say that once you’ve told a personal/emotional story about a part of your life through a song, it’s like you opened a tap and things begin to flow out of you into your writing”.
“This song was my first attempt at bringing a lot of vulnerability into the writing and to use the music-making in a more evocative and emotional way, rather than it coming from an intellectual head space”, she goes on. “It really wrote itself in an evening after I poured my feelings onto a keyboard”.
Vocals on the track are provided by Ramya Pothuri, of whom Aredeshir adds: “Ramya is pretty much my neighbour, and she recorded the vocals at my studio in a few hours one evening and it was a go!”
‘Spare Some Time’ is out this Friday. Listen to ‘Fifty Percent’ here:
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