"DO YOU REMEMBER"-JARRYD JAMES
Jarryd James has already found an audience in his native Australia where "Do You Remember" has topped the charts and he's now hoping for similar success in the States where this track was recorded.
James says he wrote this bleak post-breakup song in Los Angeles with his producer Joel Little, the New Zealander who had already racked up success working with Lorde, Elliphant and Broods.
It's not your typical break-up song. This one comes across extremely personal and a little bit dark.
Jarryd explained to journalist Grant Smithies, "It's a kind of romantic, nostalgic song, about things in your life that you can't get back... and a lot of people know that feeling."
The steady, driving beat of Jarryd's music plays a perfect match with his emotionally-tinged, at times distressed, falsetto vocals. "Do You Remember" is a perfect example of the less-is-more songwriting formula.
According to James, the basic track was recorded in a house his producer rented in Los Angeles. He told freelance journalist Kasimiira Kontio, “When we recorded ‘Do You Remember,’ we had to do it in a spare room because we could not access a studio. When I was putting the track together, I had to use whatever stuff we could use as instruments. We used stuff like a nutcracker and a ukulele but we didn’t really want to come up with some weird shit so we disguised some of the instruments that we used."
The lyrics are powerful, especially coming out of the middle-eight ("When you find out that there ain't no other love, no other love for you") when the song's heart briefly skips a beat... then immediately revived with its pleading chorus ("Oh, don't be scared about it/Don't forget it was real").
James told Chris Danks of hillydilly.com, "I’ve always wanted to make moving music, and all these experiences that I’ve been through just add to all the emotions that I feel when I play and write music."
"Do You Remember" is part of a just-released five-song, eponymously-titled EP.
James says he wrote this bleak post-breakup song in Los Angeles with his producer Joel Little, the New Zealander who had already racked up success working with Lorde, Elliphant and Broods.
It's not your typical break-up song. This one comes across extremely personal and a little bit dark.
Jarryd explained to journalist Grant Smithies, "It's a kind of romantic, nostalgic song, about things in your life that you can't get back... and a lot of people know that feeling."
The steady, driving beat of Jarryd's music plays a perfect match with his emotionally-tinged, at times distressed, falsetto vocals. "Do You Remember" is a perfect example of the less-is-more songwriting formula.
According to James, the basic track was recorded in a house his producer rented in Los Angeles. He told freelance journalist Kasimiira Kontio, “When we recorded ‘Do You Remember,’ we had to do it in a spare room because we could not access a studio. When I was putting the track together, I had to use whatever stuff we could use as instruments. We used stuff like a nutcracker and a ukulele but we didn’t really want to come up with some weird shit so we disguised some of the instruments that we used."
The lyrics are powerful, especially coming out of the middle-eight ("When you find out that there ain't no other love, no other love for you") when the song's heart briefly skips a beat... then immediately revived with its pleading chorus ("Oh, don't be scared about it/Don't forget it was real").
James told Chris Danks of hillydilly.com, "I’ve always wanted to make moving music, and all these experiences that I’ve been through just add to all the emotions that I feel when I play and write music."
"Do You Remember" is part of a just-released five-song, eponymously-titled EP.
