Madison North
Dec 27, 20223 min
Updated: Jan 19, 2023
We got to chat with Eric Morgan and Dayan Marquina also known as Tiny Ghosts about their latest, all Spanish, single "AmorAmor" and here's what they had to say.
D: Dayan Marquina
E: Eric Morgan
D: Eric suggested it, and I’ve always loved the idea of singing in my first language so it was perfect.
E: For recording, since we had the instrumentation already for LoveLove, we really only had to focus on vocals. Actually, it was a last-minute session we added to our April tracking before Dayan had to head back to Brooklyn. We had finished tracking "Grasp of Me" and another upcoming song with our vocal producer Alyssa Wilkens that had gone really well, and we had been talking about doing this song in Spanish so spur of the moment, she squeezed Dayan in and knocked out the vocals in a couple of hours before she flew back. I did just a small amount of post-production on the instruments to make it slightly different and then sent it off to our friend Jesse Clasen to mix — which in the end I prefer to the original ‘LoveLove’ mix.
D: I would say yes and no. "LoveLove" just happened to magically work out the way it did, as for our other songs I would say "Grasp of Me" would fall under that category and perhaps a "Different Light" and "Ado." Usually the ideas for the subjects of the songs are discovered in my process of writing the lyrics to Eric’s songs, I start thinking of something I’ve been wanting to get off my chest and either write them very direct or sometimes write them very diluted with hidden meanings and full of metaphors, depends how discrete I want to be.
E: Dayan had been wanting to do something more upbeat and dancey for a while. Pretty sure had she mentioned this to me a few times before I got the hint. I got the idea for the pitched guitar tail from a podcast (shoutout Song Exploder!) where they had some pop artist on — maybe Girl In Red or The 1975, and they mentioned how they automated a reverb tail on vocals to fall in pitch to get this haunting type sound. I thought that might be cool on guitar so I messed around and created this lush, ambient chain with an octave crystal delay and long spacey reverb. Actually, the pitched part for my setup ended up being the crystal delay that falls down a few cents each period. I really liked how it grounded itself with the sadder lyrics against that uptempo dancey beat.
E: I’m 100% into doing an all Spanish EP! Though I think Dayan wants to do a song in Japanese next.
D: I would love to someday do all Spanish record for sure, this means I have to sharpen my Spanish skills (written) because I struggle finding some good words here and there but I can definitely do it. Like Eric mentioned, I am really pushing for a Japanese version of "LoveLove" or just a new Japanese song in general, I’m hoping this becomes a reality in 2023.
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