Includes Bonus Content
aftermath (demo)
artist Rae Isla
Downloadable as MP3 and FLAC
$10
Summer Winter
A perfect demo to me! I've had this song stuck in my head for ages now. I'd memorized it after hearing Rae sing it lives at her shows. I'm SO glad this is out some place special like Harmonic. The guitar riff needs no backing drums – it's percussive and automatically forces a head bump. Matched with the rawness of Rae's lead and backing vocals, this recording captures a beautiful balance of raw/intimate and polished. Hard to do. I crave this song and think you will too.
About the Album
Writing Aftermath taught me this: Nobody can tell you what's going to happen or if your life will turn out the way you planned. Despite this, you have to move forward, you have to make decisions, and only in the aftermath of it all will you understand why things had to happen exactly as they did.
The guitar riff came first, I was sitting outside on the deck at my mom's place in Seattle, reflecting on how many times I'd returned to that same spot during vastly different chapters of my life. I started finger picking it on a loop as a sort of meditation.
This song will be on my third album, which we're recording in November in the Hollywood Hills. I wanted to release the demo to remind myself that a song has many lives and all of those lives should be shared with people.
Purchase comes with some super cool bonus content, and I'm getting ready to record my next album so consider this your contribution to the next body of work <3
Bonus Content
aftermath hand written lyrics
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aftermath (full band demo)
Recorded with David Salonen, Will Mapp, and special guest guitarist Skyler Mehal, engineered by Cody Doss in Topanga Canyon.