ifitbeyourwill Podcast #208 • WHY?

Yeah.

I mean, I guess there was like a couple like layers of it.

Like when I was like, 12 or 13 or something, I found this four track, um, at my dad's synagogue.

And, you know, this has been sort of, this has been talked about, or I've talked about it in previous interviews back in the day, but yeah, I, I found that and I, and I discovered like layering, you know what I mean? I had taken piano lessons prior to that.

And my dad had taught my brother and I some drum fundamentals on the drums.

So, And so I had some little fundamentals, but, you know, I wasn't never, like, a musician.

Like, I was never, like, great at anything like that.

But

when the four-track came out, I discovered, you know, layering and really, really loved that.

and then I didn't really, uh, I, I messed around with it for a couple of months and then I didn't really, you know, record anything until, uh, later when I, when I, uh, went to college, uh, I met a guy dose one and he was recording, uh, you know, music, rap music.

He was right.

He's a rapper.

And, uh, I, I sort of, I bought a four track at that point.

Um, because I remembered enjoying that and I started messing around then and I really fell in love with it.

Uh, just, just layering and just experimenting and, and, uh, you know, and then over the years, really my, my love for songwriting has grown just like over the years, you know, um, as a way to, uh, Like, I don't know, document my time on earth or something.

And not that it's like diary entries, but somehow like, you know, I don't know, marking my emotional life throughout time, you know?

Yeah, yeah.

Well, I mean, you have a great catalog of these artifacts that you've been making for quite some time.

I think I traced back your first record, and tell me if I'm wrong on this, which has a killer song on it, too, that I just always really love, but Early Whitney.

And that song...

I mean, hearing that back then was kind of like, wow, like you were doing different things that people weren't doing around that time.

And I kind of want to drill down a little bit on this layering that you talk about.

How does this begin, Yoni? Like, how does a track begin? Does it begin with like a sample maybe you had gathered or recorded or a line that you were playing around with? What's your, if you could open your process doors up a little bit, how does, how does a wise song usually start to find its legs? I mean,

you know, I think like any recording artist, songwriter will tell you, uh, there's no formula for it.

And, and it really, you, you take what you can get and you get it where you can get it and how you can get it.