Hi Our Basement,
On a day when I missed my dad more than usual, I was reading through some old emails he sent me. One of them read, “Hey Nur, two new song ideas, love Pepe.” I couldn’t recall getting this email at the time and when I listened to one of the recordings, I immediately got this idea of turning it into a Motown song. It was the first time I finished writing a song that my dad left me.
I finished writing “Do the Right Thing (Revision)” when I went through a divorce. The song is about wishing your partner would do the right thing and step up their game. Deep down inside you know they won’t…and it’s time to let them go.
The revised version I recorded in the Netherlands last summer has more of a retro-soul, sometimes even bluesy vibe to it.
My six-song EP, Coming Home, is an ode to my father and the music he left me. But then there is also my passion for making music and the need to express myself through it.
This album has been a search for my own identity. I felt like I lost a big part of myself over the last 10 years. I immigrated, lost both my parents, I became a mom, got divorced, and now I’m a single mom. This album was the journey back to myself. My old self but also the new independent me. That’s why making this EP really felt like coming home.
Thank you for listening,
Nurdjana
a23pms