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FWD.009 → Rafa Aslan: "What If We Added Vocals?"
Jul 5, 2025 · 34 min · 9 segments
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FWD → Conversations Pushing Music Forward
Jul 5, 2025 · 34 min · 9 segments
Yeah, I mean, so we'll get into that a little bit more.
But definitely for me, as someone who really, really loved your first record, In the Middle Of... which I really highly recommend people scoop up.
For me, it's a morning record.
I love listening to a morning ritual type of record.
And this is one that's on heavy rotation.
So getting back to the vocals, when you sent me the record, and i first and you had really you had also sent me a bunch of unreleased uh music a few months before and that was also instrumental which i loved i i really really loved and then when you sent me this record and i heard your voice i was it took me it took me about like you know two two three songs to recalibrate my perception of your of your music but then um then I really, really got into it.
And now I really, really love the record.
So we'll keep the conversation going.
Why don't we use this as a segue to jump into the first selection, which would be a perfect segue to, as you were saying, sort of the genesis of the project.
Why don't we listen to What If We Added Vocals?
Couldn't take myself away Take your time, it's fine with me I'll let this feeling fade, fade, fade Drift away Get straight up It's getting past time now You get up to highlight You wish my life Was it me or the dark of me? Threatening,
All right.
Yeah.
Beautiful one.
What if we added vocals? Sort of the backstory, the genesis behind the start of this record, which I didn't know.
So it's pretty great.
Her name is Foxtrot, which she uses her voice and textures and vocal processing in similar ways.
I don't know if you know him a little bit.
He just came out with the record.
So I feel it felt a little connected to that.
Yeah, I mean, so we'll get into that a little bit more.
But definitely for me, as someone who really, really loved your first record, In the Middle Of... which I really highly recommend people scoop up.
For me, it's a morning record.
I love listening to a morning ritual type of record.
And this is one that's on heavy rotation.
So getting back to the vocals, when you sent me the record, and i first and you had really you had also sent me a bunch of unreleased uh music a few months before and that was also instrumental which i loved i i really really loved and then when you sent me this record and i heard your voice i was it took me it took me about like you know two two three songs to recalibrate my perception of your of your music but then um then I really, really got into it.
And now I really, really love the record.
So we'll keep the conversation going.
Why don't we use this as a segue to jump into the first selection, which would be a perfect segue to, as you were saying, sort of the genesis of the project.
Why don't we listen to What If We Added Vocals?
Couldn't take myself away Take your time, it's fine with me I'll let this feeling fade, fade, fade Drift away Get straight up It's getting past time now You get up to highlight You wish my life Was it me or the dark of me? Threatening,
All right.
Yeah.
Beautiful one.
What if we added vocals? Sort of the backstory, the genesis behind the start of this record, which I didn't know.
So it's pretty great.
Her name is Foxtrot, which she uses her voice and textures and vocal processing in similar ways.
I don't know if you know him a little bit.
He just came out with the record.
So I feel it felt a little connected to that.
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