ON Nov 24, musician and singer Maha Jeffery launched his fourth single for 2021, titled Daisy.
“The song is about finding solace in grief and seeking comfort in the loss of a loved one through [shared memories],” stated Maha, who wrote the track for his girlfriend’s late grandfather that handed on.
“It wasn’t until my own grandfather passed when I realised that maybe it was meant for me as well.”
Daisy then happened after Maha’s girlfriend requested him to put in writing a track about grief for her to assist her deal with the loss. The track was then written acoustically, because the musician believes that “if a song sounds good stripped down, then it’s a good song”.
“I remember when I first played it to her and she loved it. This was also around the time I was learning how to produce my own music, so once I had it done, I started building the full form on Ableton, so with drums, bass, electric guitar, strings (and so on).”
“Once I was happy with the demo, I shot it over to my producer so we could work on fully fleshing it out. What really made it for me was my girlfriend’s reaction when I finally let her listen to the final master.”
Despite beginning out as a ‘bedroom musician’, Maha has been across the block, rising as a musician by means of the years, from releasing his EP Changes whereas dwelling in the United Kingdom, to forming native rock-band TMJB with different indie heavyweights, reminiscent of Leon Sapphire.
Currently, Maha is again in the UK to finish his Bar Professional Training Course, after a number of setbacks, notably Covid-19.
New yr, new begin
The flurry of singles that embrace Daisy are constructing as much as the discharge of Maha’s first full size album, C.A.I.S.O that will likely be launched in 2022.
“Silver Horse, Used to Be, Cosmic Sonata and Daisy are all going be on the album. There are about 12 tracks on it and I might be releasing a couple more before the album launches next year,” he defined, joking that the 2020 single Watermelon Juice gained’t be on the debut.
Maha speculates that he wrote lots of of songs throughout lockdown, however he didn’t simply wish to lump just a few unrelated tracks collectively and name it a day.
“It wasn’t until I wrote Cosmic Sonata one night when everything finally clicked,” Maha stated in response to idea albums.
“I’ve always been a big fan of ‘space western’ type shows ala Blade Runner or the recent Mandalorian,” he stated. “C.A.I.S.O (which stands for Con Artist Intergalactic Space Opera) [will be] a concept album through and through and my love letter to space westerns”.
