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 this episode, we'll get a deconstructed view of the song One Second of Love by Night Jewel.
I spoke to Ramona Gonzalez and her partner and producer Cole MGM in their home studio in Los Angeles,
as they took a break from making a new Night Jewel record.
Coming up, they'll talk about working with friends like Julia Holter,
who sings backing vocals on this, and their own collaborative relationship with one another.
I am Night Jewel, and I'm also called Ramona by some people.
My name's Cole MGM and I'm a producer and part of nitro.
So in 2010, yeah, we started tracking the instrumental ideas for what became one second of love.
Well, when we started out recording, we,
the idea was just to record ourselves improvising in our friend's studio that they've built.
That's incredible.
called Brick Factory.
And so we were like, cool, let's just go up there,
bring some synths and jam on synths and just no expectations, have fun.
One of the stipulations for us,
because we like to work under certain parameters when we're like working on a record,
was we have to record on tape.