Can the Phrygian Scale sound 'happy?' ft. Jake Lizzio, Brian Krock, Trust Fund Ozu, + Courtney Swain

Challenging Jake Lizzio, Courtney Swain, Brian Krock and Trust Fund Ozu to make the dark Phrygian scale sound...happy? What a fun challenge!

0:00 Intro
0:41 Courtney Swain (intro)
2:33 Courtney Swain - All Around Me
5:14 Brian Krock (intro)
7:23 Brian Krock - Felix
10:01 Trust Fund Ozu (intro)
11:18 Trust Fund Ozu - Poison Ivy
14:51 Jake Lizzio (intro)
16:11 Jake Lizzio - Phiesta
19:59 Adam Neely (intro)
20:55 Adam Neely - Sunshine Bright Sky

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Courtney Swain

Jake Lizzio of Signals Music Studio

Trust Fund Ozu (Faye Fadem)

Brian Krock

Oh yeah, the lyrics to my song are...

Sunshine, bright sky
Apple of my wandering eye

Crisp cobbler, peach pie
Tastes like cherry paradise

Flower Blossom radiation
Radiant re-iteration

I want to find a lovely scene
To sit and smile
And watch the world go by
I want to find a lovely scene
With you

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[AdamNeely]

This was so fun! Just an FYI, guys, we mostly grew up in the west, so we're deeply encultured to hear Phrygian (and related modes) as being "dark." That might not be the case everywhere, and that's what's so cool about music, it means very different things to different people! It's not a universal language, and that's great.

One unfortunate thing to note is that there's also a long tradition of using modes like Phrygian with that scale degree b2 to exoticize non-western music, especial North African, Arabic and Persian music in American popular media and movies. The scale - the sound itself - represents "the Other" - to so many people who have watched these movies and experienced that popular media.

It's unfortunate, but I think doing these scale challenges has helped me break of out a lot of sonic prejudices that I had!

[moonman]

yeah i subscribe to the Adam Neely school of music analysis
"that's a chord"
"some time signature stuff happening"

[muyskerm]

Courtney's song absolutely gripped me. Felt like it was bursting with hope and brightness. Fantastic!

[SignalsMusicStudio]

This was WAY too much fun! Cant say "thank you" enough for inviting me onto this collab, it was a honor to be included along such talented folks =) And I must shoutout Beardstank for drumming on my track and Roger Reupert for laying down those tasty trumpets!

[kinggimped]

I feel like Jake Lizzio's was the 'happiest' sounding one (and catchiest), Courtney Swain's was the 'prettiest' in terms of the musical imagery... but when it came to pure out-and-out creativity, Trust Fund Ozu's track was simply insane

[BenLevin]

So many of my closets collaborators in one video! Love this video, beautiful music y'all!

[chaisu]

Thank you so much for having me be a part of this, Adam! Faye thank you for being such a badass QUEEN ily 🔥Brian and Jake, big high fives to you both, and I hope we get to meet in person and make some music together sometime in the future 😊

[fresquitotv]

I am so happy to see Jake getting some recognition. I hope he gets in the wheel of colabs. He deserves all the attention.

Of course I am also happy to see other Bent Knee members come along. Courtney is soooo good.

[ImaginaryMdA]

5 musicians confidently attack a round hole with a square peg.

[NahreSol]

Great music and great video!!! Loved this installment of the series!!!

[evandocarmo]

Jake and Adam crossover episode is what I've been waiting for.

[sonnylost]

Adam and Jake in a video, I'm EFFING HAPPY.

[uncroppedsoop]

Phiesta feels like a song you'd hear in an indie game in like, a really dangerous late-game area, in a subsection where a bunch of friendly characters are just having a party and ignoring the danger

[francomatiasmarron]

I think Jake was the one who best nailed the instructions of the game scale-wise. He kinda went to a B part with a major chord and then returning to the Phrygian minor tonic. But it all felt very cartoonesque and tongue in cheek, sorta. And if you put a reggaeton type of break behind it all you'll surely have one happy phrygian track.

[AfferbeckBeats]

Phiesta sounds like it came straight from a super cute platforming video game

[antonkovalenko]

Wow. Courtney crushed it. So ethereal with a lofi feel. Jake's quasi-Nickelodeon jam is an incredibly close second for me.

[paulyguitary]

Jakes is so happy it sounds like it could be an opening to a cartoon.

[watcher]

Adam's piece gave me the same kind of confused but undeniably happy feeling a Bill Wurtz video evokes.

Poison Ivy though... what a bop. Happily and energetically singing about terrible things never gets old. Definitely a new favourite.

[nick_cnc]

Nobody else going to point out Jake Lizzio just wrote a dope Super Mario desert world track?

[kvothesixstring]

So what we've discovered is that Phrygian makes for excellent video game music.