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Mornight

by Rosalind

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It’s Friday night, and while the rest of the world is getting ready for a fun night, you’re heading out to work. While nights out mean fun for those dancing on the floor, the view is a bit different when you’re the one pouring the drinks. “Mornight” flips the script on a classic night out. While the music is produced in a dance, top-40 style, the story follows our main character from the moment she wakes up in the early evening and during her bartender night shift.

In a classic ALMA fashion, sound design plays a major role in the production of the song. Our collaborator for this song, Noah Kellman, made a sampled drum kit out of coffee cup sounds that, along with on-beat sound alarms and yawns, starts our journey through the daily life of a night-shift worker. Footstep sounds take us through her commute to her workplace, where the beat is made out of glasses clinking, drinks pouring, and tired sighs. The bridge creates a cinematic atmosphere that fully immerses the listener into the reality of being “trapped” in a side-job, a reality that many face in order to make ends meet in the City.

lyrics

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Blackout, I’m still here
Sunshine forcing its will
Don’t look, think it’ll disappear?

My guess is 3pm
Wake up, it’s time again
Cold water makes it all clear.

Oh, you know it’s gonna be
Oh, the night of your life, oh
keep going all night long

Oh, you know it’s gonna be
Oh, the night of your life, no
You’re never going home

Oh wait, it’s more like 6.
I hear the heels on bricks
drumming softly in my head
Street cleaners, MTA’s
health workers, business men
I raise when you go to bed

Oh, you know it’s gonna be
Oh, the night of your life, oh
keep going all night long
Oh, you know it’s gonna be
Oh, the night of your life, no
You’re never going home

Look up, refill the glass
“No sir, I think I’ll pass.”
Big smile, hide behind your teeth

Tick-tock, the night is young
Don’t hear it, bite your tongue
10 till the end of your shift.

Oh, you know it’s gonna be
Oh, the night of your life,
oh keep going all night long
Oh, you know it’s gonna be
Oh, the night of your life, no
You’re never going home

credits

released June 25, 2021
Producers: ALMA, Noah Kellman
Recording Engineer: ALMA
Mixing Engineer: Elliot Moss
Mastering Engineer: Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound
Vocals: Alba S. Torremocha, Lillie R. McDonough, and Melissa K. Carter
Strings: Alba S. Torremocha
Keys: Noah Kellman
Bass: Steve Burke
Drums: Jordan Rose

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Rosalind New York, New York

Meet Rosalind. A trio of ladies in film scoring and audio engineering bringing a quirky, cinematic, DIY approach to pop.

Armed with a DIY sensibility, they use airplanes as cymbals and parental phone chats as texture to produce their music with the sounds of the world they inhabit.

Their debut LP Mosaic is a personal letter to NYC, delivering a moment in time in the city they call home. ... more

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