First Live at Home Stay – Latte Chill [Live Balcony 20/03/28] #stayhome
Setlist
00:00 Midnight Melody (Earth ver.)
03:52 Moon Rabbit
07:17 Faro Solitaro
My story of First Live at Home Stay
First chill beats live performance on our balcony during the lock-down.
It is quite short (only 3 songs total), but well… it has been like years since I was on stage last time. So I decided to use everything to be little stages around me to share my chill beats and lofi vibe.
Honesty it felt great to be there again.
This time I decided to use my instruments and perform semi-live as part of the home stay performance. That means I set up Ableton Live with projects but muted the main lines and played them live on my Launchkey 25. This way I both controlled the song and in a way performed. Assuming that I mainly performed as a singer during my rock era in Dark Cherry, it was quite a challenge to me to focus on keys and overall the whole song.
Why these chill songs?
I needed to keep in mind that I am lacking a bit of actual performing and getting used to creating chill music in studio, being able to rerecord anything many times I want. Therefore I chose songs that had the biggest impact to me but I was still able to play and remember for this first time. To be honest I had to restart at least twice before being able to play them all the way I wanted. I hope you will like the results and I was able to show you the chill vibe I wished to show during those days. I mean, we all had tough times in 2020. My choice was to focus more what chills me down in order to keep my pace in the hard days.
First song is Midnight Melody (Earth version). As you may guess this song is very close to me. It was the first song of the Latte Chill era, marking my return to active music scene after years of break. It was originally released on my first chill beats EP called Chinese Restaurant in 2017. A year later I released a major nature chill set EPs and album (aka Earth-saga). I self-covered the songs for 2017 and 2018 – this is how Earth version was born.
Moon Rabbit was born on a single night along with 5 more songs. I found some dope chill VTSs and I decided to test them. I built up the exact same instrument rack in Ableton Live and sketched 5 songs in one night. It was Tanabata, I released in 2018 by the end of the year.
Finally Faro Solitaro. A song that was inspired by the nature and our trip to Sardegna. During a boat trip we travelled to the island of San Pietro (Southern-West from Portoscuso) I saw a beautiful lighthouse being alone on the edge of the island. At that time I told myself that I need to compose a nature chill song one day that recaps my feelings being on the sea, enjoying the summer but still thinking of that one lighthouse being alone, far from the city… far from everyone else. I hope I was able to succeed in it. What do you think?
Why now?
Latte Chill project (previously known as pszabi and Oshare Booty) was just about to hit 13 years, whereas me as composer working on music (started in The 21st Cherry Boys / T21CB) was on the field for 14 years that day. I felt like I had to upload something. Even if it is that little of a chill moment. A little live. But something.
Why on the balcony?
🙂 We faced lock-down in Hungary due to Covid19. We were asked by our government to stay at home however spring just came. After a long and very difficult winter spring really shows us a hope for a better weather (for some a better world). I suddenly felt motivated again, willing to do something new besides my singles and chill releases, so I decided to record a live.
More to come?
Definitely. More free chill lives to come. Not all on my balcony but I guess it will be part of Latte Chill project to offer more music, let it be new albums or EPs, chill mixes, lofi sets – anything that makes my listeners happy.
Free Chill Music
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