Speaker 1: Join the conversation email popahat kpetalk dot co DOTZLA. Let's
Speaker 1: finish with some music, and today we're featuring a local
Speaker 1: singer who has relocated to the UK and really reinvented
Speaker 1: herself as she chases her dream of a music career.
Speaker 1: These days, she's using the underground drum and bass scene
Speaker 1: in the UK as inspiration for her music. Melu a
Speaker 1: South African who started out her musical journey here at
Speaker 1: home in South Africa, but as I said, these days
Speaker 1: is based in the UK and we're going to share
Speaker 1: her new single with you in a moment or two.
Speaker 1: But first let's say a quicker low because she's joining
Speaker 1: us by a zoom. Great to have you on the
Speaker 1: show this afternoon.
Speaker 2: Hi Papa, thank you so much for having me. It's
Speaker 2: so shy to be here.
Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit about your journey and what
Speaker 1: has led you to this point and this place in
Speaker 1: your life.
Speaker 2: It's been crimeor journey. I've been in a few bands,
Speaker 2: I've done various kind of solo project works, but this
Speaker 2: is the first time I feel like I've had a
Speaker 2: project that fuses. I feel like all the parts of
Speaker 2: my own personality that I haven't been able to do before,
Speaker 2: so it's kind of this renownding space for me to
Speaker 2: embody all of those things in music for the first time.
Speaker 2: So I'm just really really excited. And also just this show.
Speaker 2: I have to say being on the show is actually
Speaker 2: quite surreal for me because I've listened to you in
Speaker 2: your show so much.
Speaker 1: I'm well glad we could make that pop for you.
Speaker 1: I mean, the decision to move to the UK not
Speaker 1: an easy one to make, to leave home and go
Speaker 1: and forwarde a path elsewhere. What's it been like for you?
Speaker 1: How are you finding the experience over there?
Speaker 2: So I was touring. I started being in the UK
Speaker 2: a lot more because of touring and opening for bands,
Speaker 2: so that's sort of the main reason I was based
Speaker 2: out of the UK the last couple of years. But
Speaker 2: now I'm also a lot more just everywhere. I don't
Speaker 2: really see that I have a base as much currently,
Speaker 2: Like I'm currently in a visa and I was in
Speaker 2: the US recently, so I'm missing home quite a bit.
Speaker 2: But the UK also just I guess it was a
Speaker 2: trigger because I got invited to do a few opening tours,
Speaker 2: which sort of is the reason I started media project
Speaker 2: in the first place, because I wanted to write music
Speaker 2: that was catered for both having a bit more fun
Speaker 2: and having that depth, and also for these bigger audiences
Speaker 2: I was going to be able to play.
Speaker 1: Okay, now we get to share the new song called
Speaker 1: slow Burner with our audience today. Tell us a little
Speaker 1: bit more about the inspiration and then the process of
Speaker 1: creating this piece.
Speaker 2: So slow Burner is the first of my Melu songs
Speaker 2: coming out. I have about twelve that are in the
Speaker 2: running ready to go. And it was this combination of
Speaker 2: finally finding a way to make folk fun for myself.
Speaker 2: I'm a huge folk fanatic, especially when it comes to
Speaker 2: like the sixties and seventies. And yeah, it was this
Speaker 2: amazing just it was written kind of within a few
Speaker 2: hours and a blend and with my friend raf Or
Speaker 2: his name is Rafa Prod and he's an amazing producer,
Speaker 2: and we were recording the folk song playing with and
Speaker 2: obviously we've been listening to a lot of drum and
Speaker 2: bass and a lot of these festivals drum and bassed
Speaker 2: and I do enjoy your own bass, but I yeah,
Speaker 2: it kind of all of a sudden just clicked. We
Speaker 2: were playing live drum and based folk music, and then
Speaker 2: that is how Melu was born.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm looking forward to hearing it and sharing it
Speaker 1: with our audience. Delighted to know that there are another
Speaker 1: eleven or more to come. So if they're like what
Speaker 1: they hear Melu, where do we send them to find more?
Speaker 1: To explore your music catalog and to keep an eye
Speaker 1: out for future releases.
Speaker 2: I'm all over the socials that it's Melu Music, so
Speaker 2: m E E l U music all my handles and
Speaker 2: obviously on all the streaming platforms, so yeah, people can
Speaker 2: keep an eye out there for all the new ones
Speaker 2: to come.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for squeezing in the time to chat
Speaker 1: to us in what sounds like a very busy diary
Speaker 1: right now. Meliu, all the best to you, and we'll
Speaker 1: look forward to hearing all the other new songs still
Speaker 1: to come, but for now, a great pleasure to be
Speaker 1: able to share the breakthrough slow Burner with our audience.
Speaker 1: All the best to you.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, great with us.
Speaker 1: She's at Melu Music m double E lu Music and
Speaker 1: this is the new track called slow Burner. Her name
Speaker 1: is Melu spelled m W E l U. Look for
Speaker 1: her on socials at Melu Music. That was the new
Speaker 1: track called slow Burner.