Samantha Josephine's Garage Recording 'Feel The Hate'

“I remember the moment I wrote it” says Samantha Josephine. “it was just a burst of play in the middle of a chaos of busyness among other things, there was no build up to it, I just started to play and immediately the lyrical story came out. I always press record when I feel those moments coming, I have my recording stuff set up all the time in case. I remember it felt like the rhythm was holding me, like i was whole and the sounds and words i made were fully contained, there was no awkward vulnerability in its creation.”

“When I look at the song now, at the lyrics and the feeling of it I seem to be talking about a mystery and resistance to acknowledging a trace of some kind of hate feeling that I have hidden somewhere and am now in some way trying to be ok with. The way the voice and guitar comes out is like a feeling of freedom like an upward beat in letting myself look at this thing and being ok with it.”

'Feel The Hate' is from Samantha’s new EP A light Boy in his paper room.

All the tracks on this EP were recorded in Samantha’s garage, In Sumner, Christchurch New Zealand apart from the bass and drum tracks which were recorded by Zac and Oliver Konow in the south of Chile.

“Since I record the moment the song is created with no pre-invention, there are mistakes because it is pure flow, it's just how i do it, it's the only way I will ever do it:)

No lyric or rhythm is planned i just, I go unconscious and channel everything, and sometimes I am in the middle of it and i'm like oh shit a song is coming through so i turn my head to make sure i am recording it and that can be a moment where the voice fades because i turned my head.”