LightSPeed Music
We create and produce original music – from folk to soul with a little infusion of hip hop – and have several works and projects currently underway. Stay tuned (pun intended) for our upcoming releases!
And in the meantime…
Check out who we’re listening to and who’s inspiring us at this time
Andrew’s Music
Harking back to a memorable and challenging (yet still productive) year I spent in Gothenburg, Sweden in the late aughts, this sister duo from Stockholm evokes both a classic and very modern feeling at the same time. Their music is vibrant, emotional, and honest, and this song in particular featured heavily in my rotation during the difficult pandemic years as these thoughts and questions ran continuously through my head.
First Aid Kit – Stay Gold
These next two songs remind me of a very magical and enchanting (and all too brief) portion of my life spent in Lyon, France, which was the culmination of all my dreams and goals at the time. The music I heard then, in my apartment and on the radio, and in my headphones on the recurrent train rides to and from work, was fresh and melodic and provided a distinct and dreamy soundtrack to a truly transformational time – one that both affected and ran parallel to the continued emergence and evolution of my own artistry. So salut!
Francoise Hardy – Mon Amie La Rose, 1964
Jose Gonzalez – cover of Heartbeats, 2003
Lyon, France
Teo’s Take:
To say this song is my favorite song would be an understatement. Time and time again I always find myself listening to this song. This song reminds me of the many sacrifices that my single mom made for my brother and I when we were growing up.
Growing up, I did not understand that we were poor. My mom would buy all the cheapest food and ingredients just to make sure we slept on full stomachs. She gave it to us with so much confidence and love, that I only found out later in life how cheap some of them were. Mom was so determined not to give my brother and I up for adoption that she used bricks salvaged from an old military base to build us a very tiny house. In my eyes, that house was everything. Kids from school would make fun of me for staying in such a house, and like Dolly, I never really understood them. In my eyes our house was perfect. Currently I am listening to this song because I need a reminder that no matter how bad things may get, I always have a choice to choose the lens through which I want to see those things.
Dolly Parton – Coat of Many Colors, 1971
Kacey Musgraves – Follow Your Arrow, 2013
I am a country music girl at heart. I love that they tell stories. Like Lena Waithe, I believe that other people’s stories are a mirror through which we can see our own fragments. I’d be lying if I said that I don’t care what others think about me. To be honest, most of the mistakes I have made in life came as a result of my fear of what people would “say”. However, this song teaches me that no matter what I do, say, do not do or not say “people will always have something to say”, and I will never be able to please everyone. I am learning that I matter. I am learning to put myself first. I am learning that I cannot pour from an empty cup. I am learning that if I am happy (not at the expense of others, of course), then I am able to help those around me better, as opposed to trying to please everyone else.
