'Rise' Music Album
Great Highway is a San Francisco based indie-electronic band that I played with from 2015-2018. We performed across venues in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Austin, TX as a part of the SXSW festival.
Our album, Rise, was released in 2018 through which I developed skill in audio production, composition, and recording using AbletonLive.
On the track Fault in particular, explores the pain and separation caused by the structurally racist system that we are all born into: “You’re born / A mark on your skin / A bell to a grave / A sign on your door.” The lyrics also acknowledge and recognize the system of oppression that myself and my white collaborators have benefitted from: “We curse you to fight / Hand you the knife / And smile as you fall.” Tension is built with some intentional slight intonation errors that result in interval rubbing, causing a subtle dissonant throbbing in some chords - paralleling how racial hierarchies as they exist today are not quite right if you look and listen closely.