Lyrics
My experience of songwriting is one of disappearance. For much of my life, when I’ve listened to songs — especially those I return to again and again — I find I can’t focus on the lyrics the whole way through. Music is too skilled at transporting me elsewhere, pulling me into imagined places I can’t name.
The lyrics for Theta Noir were a collaborative process. Sometimes Mika would share a track with sounds that felt almost word-like, and I would write toward the shape I sensed emerging from the sound. Some began with new lines I wrote; other times Mika, Jakub, or Awali shared fragments, and I worked with them to shape a narrative. This refinement went back and forth many times, the words slowly finding their form.