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Samstag, März 28, 2020

SAN MEI - Cry EP

SAN MEI - Cry EP

San Mei - Cry (Official Video)

San Mei AKA Emily Hamilton began her musical journey at the keys of her family piano, a consequence of a love ingrained and inherited from her dad’s favourite Beatles records and penchant for classic 60’s pop.

San Mei is enamoured with the transportativenature of music, her guitar heavy, delay ridden, dreamy popexplores the hyper-blaze of existence and the intricacies of the in between. Family and home have always been integral to Hamilton’s creative process. The daughter of Chinese-Malaysian and New Zealand born parents, her family immigrated to Australia at an early age. Her parents, resilient and sacrificial, nurtured and encouraged her creatively, instilling in her a gift that she would lean on heavily to help diffuse and navigate the chaos of growing up and forging her identity. Using art as therapy, her songs became a conduit for escape and to shoulder the loss of her mother. Armed with just a MIDI-keyboard and a Macbook San Mei was born.

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Freitag, September 21, 2018

San Mei - Heaven

San Mei - Heaven


Written by San Mei
Produced by Oscar Dawson
Mastered by Matt Redlich

Lyrics

If you stay here babe
You're gonna be, be somebody's lonely prize
I loved you once
And your rhythm
Your rhythm's breaking

You want somebody
You need somebody to love
You want somebody
But he's nobody to love

CHORUS
Did you think it was heaven
Was it something like heaven
Think you should take a look close, oh oh
Think you should take a look

If you stay here long
You're gonna feel your head spin out and I
I think you're sweet
But your rhythm, your rhythm's breaking

Sweet child, you're alive
But sweet one you could die

San Mei AKA Emily Hamilton began her musical journey at the keys of her family piano, a consequence of a love ingrained and inherited from her dad’s favourite Beatles records and penchant for classic 60’s pop.

San Mei is enamored with the transportative nature of music, her guitar heavy, delay ridden, dreamy pop explores the hyper-blaze of existence and the intricacies of the in between.

Family and home have always been integral to Hamilton’s creative process. The daughter of Chinese-Malaysian and New Zealand born parents, her family immigrated to Australia at an early age.

Her parents, resilient and sacrificial, nurtured and encouraged her creatively, instilling in her a gift that she would lean on heavily to help diffuse and navigate the chaos of growing up and forging her identity. Using art as therapy, her songs became a conduit for escape and to shoulder the loss of her mother.

Armed with just a MIDI-keyboard and a Macbook San Mei was born. Her DIY project quickly gained groundswell and nods from national tastemakers Triple J, and further afield from heavy weights NME and NYLON.

The DNA of her creativity and pop-influencers matured, taking tips from her guitar driven heroes Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Cat Power and Feist. San Mei shrugged off the bedroom-pop producer epithet and landed in the fuzzy world of dream pop, fused with over-driven, psych tinged guitars, and atmospheric synth melodies, and this is where she found her sonic shelter.

Emerging from the haze, came her first full EP: Necessary, which garnered attention from triple j, with lead single ‘Rewind’ being added to rotation. Follow up single ‘Until You Feel Good’ landed on global new music playlists.

Hamilton then joined forces with producer, songwriter and musical phenom Oscar Dawson (Holy Holy, Alex Lahey, Ali Barter, British India, Robbie Miller, Joyride) after meeting at BIGSOUND 2017. Almost instantly and undeniably, a creative connection was solidified.

Taking on Dawson as a producer has challenged and galvanized the sonic evolution of San Mei.

The collaboration saw the pair refining ideas, exploring soundscapes and laying the foundation for San Mei’s sonic progression, in a collection of new works. Finding freedom in the creative harmony of their partnership, Hamilton explained ‘[Dawson and I] hit it off straight away and it seemed like he understood where I was coming from, even if I had trouble conveying certain ideas in the demos I made at home’ Of these demos, Hamilton offers first single ‘Wonder’.

“The new single Wonder captures the classic butterflies moment when someone unknown to you captures your attention, and you’re not sure why. It’s about that person becoming a mysterious daydream to you, wondering who they are, what they’re about, and that feeling of not knowing if you want them to become anything more than some intoxicating illusion”


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Dienstag, Dezember 19, 2017

San Mei - He Doesn't Know

San Mei - He Doesn't Know


San Mei is the solo project of self-produced Gold Coast native Emily Hamilton. Beginning as a bedroom project, San Mei has been crafted into a sound full of heart-on-sleeve melodies and moody undertones.

The music plays to desire and longing, envisaging the hope of youth with its blend of dreamy vocals, fuzzy synths and driving rhythms.

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Donnerstag, Juni 29, 2017

San Mei - Necessary

San Mei - Necessary
 San Mei release her new single "Necessary"


San Mei is the solo project of self-produced Gold Coast native Emily Hamilton. Beginning as a bedroom project, San Mei has been crafted into a sound full of heart-on-sleeve melodies and moody undertones.

The music plays to desire and longing, envisaging the hope of youth with its blend of dreamy vocals, fuzzy synths and driving rhythms
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Samstag, April 15, 2017

San Mei - Until You Feel Good

San Mei - Until You Feel Good
 Gold Coast based artist San Mei is set to release her new single ‘Until You Feel Good’




San Mei is the solo project of self-produced Gold Coast native Emily Hamilton. Beginning as a bedroom project, San Mei has been crafted into a sound full of heart-on-sleeve melodies and moody undertones.

The music plays to desire and longing, envisaging the hope of youth with its blend of dreamy vocals, fuzzy synths and driving rhythms.
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Dienstag, November 15, 2016

San Mei - Rewind


San Mei - Rewind

It has been a while since I last heard a song from San Mei (also known as Emily Hamilton), so I am glad to see that she is back with a new track called ‘Rewind’.

The great thing about the video above is she also released an audio version of it you can listen to below:




San Mei - Rewind (Official Video)
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Freitag, März 25, 2016

San Mei - Revel

San Mei - Revel

Gold Coast based artist San Mei is set to release her new single ‘Revel’ April 22nd.

2014 and 2015 saw San Mei (Emily Hamilton) garner both international and local praise with her debut singles ‘Wars’ and ‘Brighter’ from taste makers NME, Indie Shuffleand NYLON Magazine tipping her as an artist to watch.

San Mei returns with ‘Revel’ produced by Emily and Sean Cook, (Babaganouj, Jungle Giants), and mastered by Ben Feggans (Rüfüs, Ngairre, Willow Beats, The Kite String Tangle and Dustin Tebbutt) showcasing her lush melodies, and progression beyond the bedroom and into the studio. Revel evokes the progressive-pop of Little Dragon and Ladyhawke with the guitar saunter of Mac De Marco.

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Sonntag, Oktober 05, 2014

San Mei – Wars

  San Mei – Wars

San Mei is the performing moniker of Gold Coast based Emily Hamilton. First coming to the fore with her self-produced single ‘Brighter’ in the dying weeks of summer last year, the solo artist returns in 2014 with sophomore single ‘Wars’, forming the third release from London label Tidal Wave. Tidal Wave is a relatively new label, with two artists on their roster (San Mei & Brighton-based Dog In The Snow) who aim to “bring back the fun” to music.
The digital age has created a new generation of bedroom producers. Where rock/punk/grunge bands ruled the home-made roost, laptops and self-production are becoming more and more significant. Beginning as a bedroom solo project, San Mei is building a reputation for combining dreamy vocals, lo-fi beats and summery rhythms, creating stylish, homemade, synth-pop that leaves the listener craving more.
With a distinctly warm vibe evident through the use of fuzzy synths and a heart-on-sleeve attitude, ‘Wars’ is a song written about the brutal honesty of an individual, even when their honesty causes controversy. This trait is clearly admired by Hamilton, as witnessed in the lyrics “can we be honest, can I say / you might lose the other ones / but I like the wars you make“.
All in all, ‘Wars’ makes for an impressive sequel to a well-received debut. In the internet-based world and its rapid rotation of tracks, this sticks for all the right reasons.

 

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