(instruments tuning) - [Woman] A little with vocals, make sure you have enough of... (vocalizing) - Try the first.

(soft piano music) (vocalizing) (speaks indistinctly) (vocalizing) Hi, I'm Arantza Shaeffer and I'm here on Sound on Tap.

Salut!

This song is called "N.Y.C" and it's about falling in love with the wrong person.

(soft music) ♪ Before you were my lover ♪ ♪ Before you were my favorite stranger ♪ ♪ I saw you falling in love ♪ ♪ Guess I wasn't worth fighting for ♪ ♪ Oooh ♪ ♪ Oooh ♪ ♪ Oh ♪ ♪ I saw you ♪ ♪ In a stranger's face ♪ ♪ I felt you in a familiar place ♪ ♪ Strawberry fields still in my mind ♪ ♪ Our first kiss I see your smile in Central Park ♪ ♪ In front John Lennon's house ♪ ♪ Cold November night ♪ ♪ But not as cold, not as cold as my heart ♪ ♪ This is love ♪ ♪ It's not regret ♪ ♪ I give up and I forget ♪ ♪ Because this is love ♪ ♪ It's not regret ♪ ♪ I give up and I forget ♪ - Just gonna do a monitor.

- That's easy.

(somber music) - Ever since I remember I was making music, making songs in my head or just like singing along while cleaning my room.

I was very close to music because my dad has always had this huge CD/cassette collection.

So I started in ballet, but I figured out that I was more into music than dance.

Like I used to black out, not black out, but you know, really feel the classical music.

So I asked my parents if I could be in piano classes since I was eight years old, a couple years after being in ballet, classical ballet.

So yeah, I think that was a very early approach, but yeah.

(vocalizing) - [Man] Can you talk?

(vocalizing) Is that sound enough in the monitor?

- Yeah, no, it's okay.

This next song it's called "Pupila."

It's about toxic love before it was cool.

It's about falling out of love, but not finding a way out of love itself so, or love itself.

So here's "Pupila" and I hope we connect even though it's, well, most of my songs are in Spanish.

Let's give it the power of music.

(somber music) (singing in foreign language) That was "Pupila" I actually wrote it at 4:00 AM in the morning, crying with my swollen face, but apparently I really felt it was a good kind of pain when I used to be in this, in this band and we all played it together, the "Pupila" song.

And a guy that went to our shows asked for that song.

So I really thought to myself like that's the power of music and that feeling that I was devastated, but that feeling it was worth it because I got to connect with someone through that feeling, through that melody.

So that's "Pupila."

This next song is actually one of my favorites because it's about a photographer that's, to be more specific that travels to Puebla and in Puebla City, there's an avenue he's into street photography.

So there's this avenue called Avenida 73 and this is a song about that photographer.

(soft music) (singing in foreign language) (speaking in foreign language) Well, I'm currently working with three musicians, long distance, my band mate which of the Cactus Noir project.

He can't cross because he's a Mexican citizen.

And we can't like be jamming as we used to every Monday, you know, but I keep like, we keep bouncing songs and tracks and ideas.

Technology has been our friend, but it's definitely not the same thing.

And it's music has been my, music and nature has been my refuge ever since this started to be honest.

I can make like a jam by my own.

And I write every day and I don't know.

I would be crazy if I wasn't doing that 'cause I think that's my coping mechanism.

- [Man] Let's get the next keyboard.

In the monitor- - Yeah, no, it's okay.

- [Man] Can I get a little guitar and vocal together?

(soft guitar music) (vocalizing) - [Arantza] Probably the strings.

- [Man] Can I get like the top end, like the loudest it's gonna be, just so I can set your peak.

- I think the quieter is gonna be the first.

(soft piano music) (speaking in foreign language) This is like the new songs I've made.

This is a new song that I've made during the quarantine times.

It was about to get darker, not metaphorically talking about the sunset or whatever, it was about to get darker.

I've lost some important creatures in that year.

Well, I think we all went through the darkest times that we haven't ever been through, but I personally, this song was, it was about to get darker and it was just the beginning of it.

And I was quarantined and I wasn't seeing anybody.

And I was away from my loved ones.

So this song is about that time when it was all beginning and it's called "Planeta B" or "Planet B" which we don't have.

So you better take care of the planet.

This is "Planeta B."

(soft music) (singing in foreign language) It's very important for me to connect through what I do.

And even if it's probably, I'm putting myself out there, like, yeah, I feel a lot of this thing, a lot of these things.

And I feel them very intensely, but so do you.

So that, for me, it's music, it's everything, everything we've been through as humans, as persons, we can connect through situations, probably you don't talk to your friends about, but you hear a song and you're like, "Oh yeah, that's what I'm feeling.

That's how I felt yesterday when that happened."

So it's a universal language and it's the magic of music.

(soft music) (singing in foreign language) Ta-dah!

Thank you so much for having me.

Thank you.

Thank you.

My name is Arantza Shaeffer.

(soft music) ♪ Before you were ♪ ♪ My lover ♪ ♪ Before you were my favorite stranger ♪ ♪ I saw you falling in love ♪ Take care of the planet.