You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
In November 2015, I interviewed Kalayla about her song Rewind from her debut EP.
Since that EP was released, she's gone on to collaborate on songs with Gorillaz and Solange,
and she released her first full-length,
Take Me Apart, which was named one of the top 10 albums of 2017 by Vulture,
Pitchfork, Cosmo, and a bunch of others.
So I wanted to go back and revisit Kalela's episode, which originally came out in January 2016.
Here it is.
Kalela is a singer and songwriter based in Los Angeles.
In 2015, she released Hallucinogen and landed on critics' lists in The New York Times,
The Washington Post, Pitchfork, and more.
In this episode, Kalela takes apart her song, Rewind.
To make the track, she worked with five different producers,
picking and choosing each for what they could best contribute to her overall vision for the song.
This interview was recorded live in San Francisco at Fusion's Real Future Fair.
Now, here's Kalela on Song Exploder.
I had the intention to make a Miami-based inspired song that gave me butterflies or that made me feel romance,
but something light and fun.