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Treats, Trauma, and Trust
Check out the collection of blog posts, behind-the-scenes to the writing process of the EP, 5 solo piano pieces. Some were improvised, some were planned, some are a mix of both. Ear candy, "trauma responses", and trust in the creative process.
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Treats, Trauma, and Trust – Always Changing (Solo Piano Version)
Ahhh… Now we have arrived at the final “treat” to end the EP. I am such a big fan of listening to an entire EP or album from start to...
Falori-i
Nov 19, 20231 min read
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Treats, Trauma, and Trust – to be the First
As I mentioned in the previous track’s blog, this piece is also a “trauma response”, my own musical improv response to reading a book...
Falori-i
Nov 19, 20237 min read
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Treats, Trauma, and Trust – Are You Even Real?
And now we have arrived at the “trauma” section of the EP! As I mentioned in the overview, the next two tracks are “trauma...
Falori-i
Nov 19, 20234 min read
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Treats, Trauma, and Trust – Slumber (REM) [Piano Improv]
This track has quite a few parenthetical descriptors because there are technically a couple different versions! I wrote this piece about...
Falori-i
Nov 19, 20231 min read
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Treats, Trauma, and Trust – Blooming
The EP starts off with a treat! This one is also an improvisation—about 80% improvised. I’d been messing around with this chord...
Falori-i
Nov 19, 20231 min read
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Treats, Trauma, and Trust – Overview
My newest EP is a small collection of piano pieces which have been composed over several years. The “treats” are the ear candy—beautiful,...
Falori-i
Nov 19, 20233 min read
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Love Letters to Myself - Cabbage Village (Bonus Track)
One fateful evening I went to the grocery store and found four giant heads of Napa cabbage in the fresh vegetable department. I stared at...
Falori-i
Dec 21, 20222 min read
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Love Letters to Myself - Outro
Like the intro, the outro of my album also has just piano, my voice, and the "Celestial Voices" synth pad from Logic. Perhaps a...
Falori-i
Dec 21, 20221 min read
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Love Letters to Myself - Always Changing
My favorite song on the album! This one includes the most instruments I've ever written and played entirely myself all in one song—we...
Falori-i
Dec 21, 20223 min read
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Love Letters to Myself - Love List (Interlude)
This is my favorite interlude on the album. I contemplated making this song longer, by either adding more sections, or writing more...
Falori-i
Dec 21, 20222 min read
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Love Letters to Myself - Let it Feel Good
This is the most experimental song on the album for sure. It started as an improv that I sang into my phone, as many of these songs did....
Falori-i
Dec 21, 20221 min read
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Love Letters to Myself - Mourning Dove
I'm studying to get my Masters in Music Therapy right now, but my job for the last seven years was teaching music. The bulk of my hours...
Falori-i
Dec 21, 20222 min read
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Love Letters to Myself - Weightless
This is undoubtedly the most raw and vulnerable track on the album. It's my song about unburdening myself of others' expectations,...
Falori-i
Dec 21, 20223 min read
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Love Letters to Myself - Room & Permission
This is another mostly raw and vulnerable, partially cheeky and self-aware song. Lots of fun effort sounds! I also wanted to showcase the...
Falori-i
Dec 21, 20222 min read
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Love Letters to Myself - Don't Pay it Twice (Interlude)
I was washing dishes when I improv-sang this song, thinking about changing the electricity bill from my late mother's name to mine. We...
Falori-i
Dec 21, 20222 min read
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Love Letters to Myself - Woogly Noodle
The Chorus of this one was an improv-singing song. It's about being flexible in my interactions with other people. It definitely has a...
Falori-i
Dec 21, 20222 min read
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Love Letters to Myself - It's Never Gonna Be Perfect (Interlude)
This was the first song I wrote on the album - it was written while I was recording my first album, back in 2018. I decided to do a new...
Falori-i
Dec 21, 20221 min read
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Love Letters to Myself - Intro
Six months after the release of my second album, I am finally releasing the back stories! Better late than never, right? The album itself...
Falori-i
Dec 21, 20224 min read
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A Smile is All - The First Love Letter
My first single came out May 20, 2022. On Spotify it's classified as an EP, because it has four tracks, but there's really only one song...
Falori-i
Sep 9, 20223 min read
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Critters & Creatures: White Spider Cup Back Story
Lastly comes White Spider Cup. You may have noticed that the first four tracks all include alliteration in their titles: Critters and...
Falori-i
May 15, 20222 min read
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