- Can I check my levels real quick?

- [Man] Yeah.

- I kinda messed with it.

- [Man] Yeah.

(ambient instrumental music) - Okay, this one's rolling.

(people chattering in background) - [Man In Studio] There's only obviously going to be so much I can do in this... - Yeah.

Yeah.

- [Man In Studio] It's already self contained.

- Yeah, for sure.

Yeah, that's fine, cool.

(ambient music continuing) - Cool, great?

- [Singer] Yeah.

(keyboard notes being played) (singer vocalizing warm-up exercise) - All right, on three.

(singer chuckles) - Yeah, we're Cotinga and this is our Sound on Tap.

(ambient instrumental music) ♪ The shift in your eyes ♪ Makes hard to decide ♪ Where relations lie ♪ I hate to be blindsided ♪ Resistance on your part ♪ Hesitates my heart ♪ To speak out in it's pride ♪ What's felt from the inside ♪ You oooh ♪ You ooh ♪ That's where my love is ♪ That's where my love is ♪ With you ooooh ♪ You oooh ♪ That's where my love is ♪ That's where my love is ♪ Resistance on your part ♪ Hesitates my heart ♪ To speak out in it's pride ♪ What's felt from the inside ♪ You ooooh ♪ You oooh ♪ That's where my love is ♪ That's where my love is ♪ (indistinct) ♪ The sudden moves in front of you ♪ ♪ I front for you and feel of natural things we do ♪ ♪ The natural things we do ♪ (indistinct) ♪ The sudden moves in front of you ♪ ♪ I'll front for you and feel of natural things we do ♪ ♪ The natural things we do ♪ (new beat transitions in) ♪ Oooooh ♪ Do you ♪ feel what I feel?

♪ I think you do ♪ Resistance on your part ♪ Hesitates my heart ♪ To speak out in it's pride ♪ What's felt from the inside ♪ With you oooh ♪ You ooooh ♪ That's where my love is ♪ That's where my love is ♪ With you oooh ♪ You oooohooh ♪ That's where my love is ♪ That's where my love is ♪ With you ooooh ♪ Oooooh ♪ (keyboard notes being played) ♪ - So I saw a video on Instagram a while back and saw Njia's singing and it was a really well-produced video.

And I was like, who the heck is this?

It's probably some chick from New York, it's really awesome.

Showed a buddy, and I was like, dude look at this chick, she sings really, really well.

And he's like, oh, that's in Njia.

She lives in Fort worth.

I was like, what are you serious?

He's like, yeah, yeah.

We're friends, we'll hang out sometime.

So every time, like I finally met her and when I'd run into her, I'd be like "Hey, we should make some music".

And she was like, okay, cool.

Let's hang out, let's hang out.

That happened about four or five times.

- Over a span of like four or five years.

I like met him at every place he worked, somehow.

And was like, "Oh hey, like we need to do music".

And we just kept saying that to each other every time we'd see each other, but.

- And finally I said it one last time and she was like, stop asking me, like, let's just do it.

Next weekend we're hanging out.

- Yeah.

And I was like, okay.

So I scrounged around with the song and like made the track, which was "Tiger Balm" the first song we played and I was like, "Hey check this out, do you like this?"

She's like, "I have no idea what I'm going to write on this".

- Yeah, I was intimidated for sure.

- But she did it, and that was kind of the start of it.

And that was a couple years ago, I guess.

- Yeah, yeah.

About two, two and a half years ago.

- Yeah, so that's how we came to be.

- We were aware of, you know, the possibility of, you know, contracting COVID or, you know just being too social at that time.

So we were very conscious about that.

And so we, yeah, we social distanced.

We, you know, did the whole thing, but after awhile we were just like, man, like if we're serious about this, we really got to start working on it, so.

- And we would try to do our best to kind of stay away from people like, okay, I've been staying away from people.

You've been staying away from people let's get together.

And let's work this out.

- Yeah.

It's like, "Hey, we've both been safe".

You know, "I trust to be around you.

You trust me around me".

You know, let's just really get this done because it's something we both believe in, you know?

And at a certain point it's like, you can't really let that stop you from creating progress.

(ambient music playing) (chill electronic beat begins) ♪ You asked me where my life was at ♪ ♪ I had no answer ♪ You asked me if I'd ever come back ♪ ♪ I said no oooh ♪ My lie is too ♪ It's too much, I've found ♪ Someday I'll stay with you ♪ Want you until then ♪ (keyboard melody playing) ♪ Something tells me it's already too late ♪ ♪ I've been wrong before ♪ Something is keeping me away ♪ From getting too close ♪ What can I do?

♪ What can I do?

♪ Forgive me for how long I take ♪ ♪ Until then ♪ Ooooh ♪ Ooooh ♪ Ooooh ♪ Ooooh ♪ Ooooh ♪ Ooooh ♪ Someday I'll stay with you ♪ Want you until then ♪ (new ambient beat begins) ♪ Are these steps forward?

♪ Or has time gone backwards?

♪ Losing grip of my conscience ♪ Enlightment, got myself ♪ Stuck on loop all these factors ♪ ♪ Played what I've been after ♪ Think faster ♪ Tell me how did all these judgements find me?

♪ ♪ Throw me off of my axis ♪ Press reset ♪ Are these steps forward or has time gone backwards?

♪ ♪ Losing grip of the nexus ♪ Of the night shift ♪ I keep forgetting ♪ I keep forgetting ♪ We're all inside a process ♪ No one knows ---- ♪ I keep forgetting ♪ I keep forgetting ♪ We're all inside a process ♪ No one knows ---- ♪ Try to follow through ♪ One day you'll understand ♪ Try to follow through ♪ 'Till the end ♪ One day you'll understand ♪ Tell me how did all these judgements find me?

♪ ♪ Throw me of of my axis ♪ Press reset ♪ One day you'll understand ♪ Try to follow through ♪ Try to follow through ♪ Through ♪ Try to follow ♪ I'm really tryin' ♪ I'm really tryin' ♪ I'm really tryin' ♪ I'm really tryin' ♪ I'm really tryin' ♪ I'm really tryin' ♪ I'm really tryin' ♪ Ooooh ♪ I'm really tryin' ♪ I'm really tryin' ♪ I'm really tryin' ♪ Ooooh ♪ I'm really tryin' ♪ I'm really tryin' ♪ (ambient electronic beat) ♪ I keep forgetting ♪ I keep forgetting ♪ We're all inside a process ♪ No one knows ---- ♪ I keep forgetting ♪ I keep forgetting ♪ We're all inside a process ♪ No one knows ---- ♪ I keep forgetting ♪ I keep forgetting ♪ We're all inside a process - Yeah (new beat begins) ♪ Just when I've decided ♪ Love wouldn't have me find it ♪ ♪ To hide my wants behind this ♪ What will be, will be ♪ Your presence reminded ♪ That first glance we'd all define this ♪ ♪ Connection later is found in ♪ When we stood at ease ♪ Looks before deceived me ♪ I fell victim to these feelings ♪ ♪ So I look but I'm questioning ♪ ♪ If it's worth it to speak ♪ Your essence reminded ♪ You smiled first and I decided ♪ ♪ Fear was worth fighting ♪ That I'm yours to keep ♪ But damn ♪ All I need ♪ Is to know where to start ♪ How do I start?

♪ I just wanna get to know you baby ♪ ♪ All I need, is to know where to start ♪ ♪ How do I start?

♪ (indistinct) ♪ Is the first storm I'm feeling ♪ ♪ Behind the high of anticipating ♪ ♪ To finally be seen ♪ Open the conversation ♪ Bet your voice rings on sensation ♪ ♪ Loss of contemplation ♪ That brings me to my knees ♪ Overthinking in suggestion ♪ Should I start out with a question?

♪ ♪ Move around to keep you guessin' ♪ ♪ Or lean in completely ♪ Catch the vibe that I'm conveying ♪ ♪ We'd be history in the making ♪ ♪ You have a (indistinct) I'm wanting ♪ ♪ To fulfill those needs ♪ But damn ♪ All I need ♪ Is to know where to start ♪ How do I start?

♪ Just wanna get to know you baby ♪ ♪ All I need ♪ Is to know where to start ♪ How do I start?

♪ Just wanna get to know you baby ♪ ♪ All I need ♪ Is to know where to start ♪ How do I start?

- I got into this type of music I was listening to a lot of eighties, electro R&B from working at a record store.

And just digging through and finding all this stuff.

And yeah, I wanted to just create this song by myself and have someone incredible write vocals on it.

It was a little less work of just constantly shredding all the time on like guitar or something.

And just trying to create a really, really cool song and write a really nice bass line, which is what I like about it the most.

And yeah, and I was trying to do that on my own for a while.

And then I heard Njia and I was like, this would be perfect, so.

Yeah.

- Yeah it was just me and the piano.

Any time I would sing out here in Fort worth or venture out in Dallas and do shows, it was just me and the piano songs that I'd written very melodic music, very like, kind of deep thought contemplative type stuff.

And this is too, but it also has a lighter side to it with you know, more upbeat something you can dance to.

It also gives you a feeling, you know, mine was just kind of like sit there and think, which is why I was super intimidated to do something like this.

Cause I'd never done something like really thought out and lighthearted before.

So it was a huge shift for me.

- Yeah, she was just like, "I'm used to writing like super sad music.

I don't know what to do with this happy stuff".

- I was like, "I'm a sad girl Landon.

I don't know what to do with this", but yeah, he drew it out of me for sure.

And I'm thankful he did because it gave me a lot of growth for sure.

- We're booking shows now.

We met a really awesome dude named Connor Dardis.

We reached out to him to book some shows and he just liked the music a lot and was like, "Hey I just kinda want to help you guys out and set you up with stuff".

So he's, he's been a big help and yeah, we're just slowly starting to book shows.

Yeah, we want to play as much as we can, in a realistic and not too much way, but yeah.

- We are excited to get out there, for sure - Yeah, - For sure, - We've been recording with Ty Macklin.

He's a sound engineer and writer in Fort worth, and he has a studio called AOE.

We've been recording a lot with him.

Yeah, so we're trying to get a lot of singles ready, mixed and mastered, and push those out to... release a record Yeah.

Try to shop around with that.

(fast electronic beat with ambient melody) ♪ All that pressure on you ♪ To find it ♪ To choose ♪ All that pressure on you ♪ To find it ♪ To choose ♪ Law ♪ He used common law ♪ To help my heart stranded ♪ (indistinct) who choose ♪ Choose to deny it ♪ Each day reminded ♪ (indistinct) my doing ♪ Ain't love just supposed to free ya' ♪ ♪ Then why does it leave ya' ♪ Confused ♪ All that pressure on you ♪ To find it ♪ To choose ♪ All that pressure on you ♪ To find it ♪ To choose ♪ When the hell will I wake up?

♪ ♪ Gotten stuck in a daydream ♪ When the hell will I wake up?

♪ ♪ Get it all out my head ♪ All that pressure on you ♪ To find it ♪ To choose ♪ Fall ♪ How easy I fall ♪ Into your arms ♪ Back and forth with you ♪ Said you don't want it ♪ Then pretend you own it ♪ Games we play are for fools ♪ Why'd you sacrifice your glory?

♪ ♪ Tell the honest story ♪ To me ♪ Ways we ♪ Repeat ♪ Tell me ♪ We're stuck in a daydream ♪ Ways we ♪ Repeat ♪ Tell me ♪ We're stuck in a daydream ♪ Ways we ♪ Repeat ♪ Tell me ♪ We're stuck in a daydream ♪ Ways we ♪ Repeat ♪ Tell me ♪ We're stuck in a daydream ♪ (keyboard melody) ♪ All That pressure on you ♪ To find it ♪ To choose ♪ All that pressure on you ♪ To find it ♪ To choose ♪ When the hell will I wake up?

♪ ♪ Gotten stuck in a daydream ♪ When the hell will I wake up?

♪ ♪ Get it all out my head ♪ All that pressure on you ♪ To find it ♪ To choose