Tag: Melaena Cadiz

WATCH: Melaena Cadiz, ‘Last Night in My Dream’

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Artist: Melaena Cadiz
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Song: “Last Night in My Dream”
Album: Sunfair
Release Date: March 2, 2018 (Special Edition Vinyl Release)
Label: MISRA
In Their Words: “This is the first song I wrote after I learned I was going to be a mother. I was in the middle of the blurry dream world that comes along with that and also making major life decisions about where our family was going to live, how we wanted our futures to look. Fast-forward two years, and my friend and director, Tim Gehling, came to visit our new home in Los Angeles. He and my husband, Mikael Kennedy, shot a bunch of super8 film around California. We wanted it to feel non-linear and dream-like, so we found some old animation and vintage material that Tim wove that into his original footage. The grainy, overlapping images really echo this luminous haze I was in when I wrote the song.” — Melaena Cadiz

Photo credit: Mikael Kennedy

LISTEN: Melaena Cadiz, ‘California’

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Artist: Melaena Cadiz
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Song: “California"
Album: Sunfair
Release Date: March 4
Label: Misra

In Their Words: "This is one of the songs on the record I wrote back in New York, after I’d spent a month in Joshua Tree on a writing retreat. Everything had been so simple there — waking up at sunrise, writing all day, going for walks in the desert, and going to bed at sundown. I had time to really sit with myself and my thoughts. It seemed like, in the city, we’d been in the same cycle for years, the frenetic pace of New York. I won’t get into it — all the same age-old complaints about New York City you've heard a million times. It can be so exhilarating, but also exhausting. I had this longing to get back to the center of things, and being away gave me a taste of what life could really be. So 'California,' more than being about a place, is this possibility that life can be different. You’re in charge of it. Life can be whatever you decide it’s going to be." — Melaena Cadiz

Photo credit: Mikael Kennedy