Flute solos, jazz harp, and “baroque pop” sounds abound on Luna Li’s new album, “When a Thought Grows Wings.” She says the mission explores how concepts “take flight and turn into tangible.”
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AYESHA RASCOE, HOST:
Luna Li makes music to make sense of life.
LUNA LI: It’s totally therapeutic for me to get out all my emotions and have an outlet for every little thing that I expertise.
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LI: (Singing) If you wish to take a little bit piece of me for your self, I might allow you to. If you wish to style a little bit sweetness, attempt it out. I might come to you.
RASCOE: Luna Li’s new album is titled “When A Thought Grows Wings.” Her music “I Would Let You” explores private boundaries.
LI: I believe it is one of the crucial sincere songs that I’ve written. I am all the time difficult myself to be extra susceptible, and particularly I cut up with my companion of eight years. After which I additionally determined to make the transfer from Toronto to Los Angeles. All of that change got here collectively on this album that actually grew to be about change and transition.
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LI: I wrote it based mostly off of a poem that I had in my Notes app on my cellphone simply sort of outlining my boundaries, what I am prepared to sacrifice, what I am not prepared to sacrifice, and all of it sort of got here collectively into lyrics for the music. A few the lyrics that actually sum up how I felt have been I might change take care of respect, that means I’ve to prioritize myself and my well-being earlier than I can carry myself to anyone else.
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LI: (Singing) I might change take care of respect. I might do something to be equally addressed.
I simply keep in mind sitting in my bed room, simply sort of interested by melodies and determining how the phrases have been going to suit. I believe simply the second after I put the lyrics and the melodies along with the backing instrumental, it actually felt like a clicking sort of second. And realizing, that is the route for the album. I am actually enthusiastic about this sound. The album title, “When A Thought Grows Wings,” was really taken from a lyric from my music “Bon Voyage” that asks the query, can a thought develop wings? “When A Thought Grows Wings” refers to permitting your innermost ideas and needs to take form, take flight, and turn into tangible and actual.
And in the course of the interval of my life whereas scripting this album, I used to be assembly new individuals and falling in love once more for the primary time. And so it was actually a time of realizing, you realize, I can take my life into my very own fingers. I can create change in my life that can profit me and profit individuals round me. I can step into my very own energy.
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LI: (Singing) Present me your life and I will fill it with mine, oh…
I nonetheless discover it difficult to be susceptible, however I believe the extra I do it, the simpler it will get. What I actually needed to do with this new album was to create music that feels actually comforting as a result of that was one thing I wanted. I felt like an outsider at many factors in my life. And I need everyone to really feel welcome into the world of Luna Li, regardless of who they’re or the place they arrive from.
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RASCOE: That was Luna Li discussing her new album, “When A Thought Grows Wings.”
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “I WOULD LET YOU”)
LI: (Singing) If you wish to change up your life…
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