Amamelia announces new album, shares ‘Theme From Living’
Amamelia is the musical project of Amelia Berry (she/her), a musician and songwriter from Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland) who is currently based in Naarm (Melbourne). Amamelia’s catalogue explores electronica and breakbeat while experimenting with sapphic synthesis.
Today the award winning Amamelia announces her new album The Joy Of Living will be released on April 17 (out on Vinyl LP & Digital Formats) and shares the new single Theme From Living, featuring vocal stylings from a who’s who of Aotearoa’s underground.
STREAM AMAMELIA – THEME FROM LIVING
Theme From Living explodes with whistling synths, wheezing white noise, chiming xylophone, a fuzzed guitar solo and a cheeky record scratch. The song’s joyous vocal melody features a corps d’elite of Aotearoa’s underground with appearances from Carla Camilleri ((cc)tv), Moe McGlashan (Bandicoot, FIMO), Hannah Renwick plus Sunreturn label mates Madison van Staden (Van Staden & Bohm, Yarn) and Baby Zionov.
“Theme From Living was the first song I wrote for the album and I needed something to set the tone. I knew I wanted sunshine pop, something a bit bubblegum and psychedelic,” reminisces Amelia.
“I came up with the vocal melody while I was waiting for the train at the Footscray station, I hid behind a pillar to sing it into my phone. It wasn’t until I got home that I realised it was in crazy shifting time signatures. I love a bit of a unison gang vocal so I called up my friends and everyone really pulled through!”
“I’m also really proud of the kind of Mort Garson synth whistling sound – that was really fun to put together. Because I don’t have a synth with a triangle or sine oscillator, the main body of the sound is made by pushing the filter into self-oscillation and then tuning the resonance. There’s a way that it interacts with any tones or white noise that you put through the filter that’s really unstable and beautiful.”
Find Theme From Living along with Summerlong and The Floating Opera on Amamelia’s new album The Joy Of Living, available on April 17 on Vinyl LP or digital formats.
Photo Credit: Madison Van Staden
