The DNA Project by J.Views

j.viewz - We Moved (feat. Benja)

You said "who do you make mistakes with?
what if I show you something not perfect?"
And for a moment I've never heard anything else, anything else
I forget to know how to dance

Drew you a thought on a napkin that night
Lines weren't right but you opened your eyes
We're sprinting into a risk and we'll madly get hurt
Glorious heartbreak I'm writing with you

We moved like we're not afraid

The moment I gave up on knowing exactly
If you're holding the part that was missing in
A house filled in with light
This place is more alive, with you

We moved like we're not afraid

Written & Produced by Jonathan Dagan
Vocals: Benja Lyman, Jonathan Dagan
Drums: Yoni Halevy
Mixed by Jonathan Dagan at the j.viewz Studio
Mastered by Brian Lucey at Magic Garden Mastering

j.viewz - #Almostforgot

cracked a window open
a giant city stormed inside
fragments of your poem, again

all I read is back of books
all I hear was ‘brought to you by��
you're texting me your horoscope
I haven't written back, at all

#almostforgot the heart
#almostforgot the heart
#almostforgot the heart

tried to turn the music loud
to keep the words from being heard
“you've come this far, to realize
you're living on crumbs��

all I read is back of books
all I hear was ‘brought to you by��
you're texting me your horoscope
I haven't written back, at all

#almostforgot the heart
#almostforgot the heart
#almostforgot the heart

Written & Produced by Jonathan Dagan
Vocals: Jonathan Dagan, Kelli Scarr
Guitars: Alon Albagli
Mixed by Jonathan Dagan at the j.viewz Studio
Mastered by Brian Lucey at Magic Garden Mastering

I was lost and wandering, I couldn’t see your face
that tangled branch inside me
grew and grew to a deeper place

and I couldn’t say
or wash it away
the things that i had hid inside
I tried and tried

you stood there
in the night air
a flicker in the fading lights
you lift the veil from

my eyes
are open
open wide
we’re strangers in the dark tonight
blind hope
we don’t ask why
from the dark into the light

I stood there naked and I felt
new in front of your heart
made clean by your raw fire I
took the darkness and tore apart

I can’t go
I won’t hide
I need to hear you say that-

something’s shone
in the light
look me in my eyes

Written and produced by j.viewz & Wild Cub
Lyrics by Keegan DeWitt

Keegan DeWitt: Vocals, Ukuleles
Jeremy Bullock: Guitars, Bass, Sampler, Ukuleles
Tomer Rabinowitz: Guitars
Doug Mosher: Saxophone
Jonathan Dagan: Guitars, Bass, Percussion, Programming, Mix, Backing vocals
Mastered by Brian Lucey at Magic Garden Mastering

“Don’t let it open��
“Don’t blow a cover��
But all the time is gone and I
Just want to leave a Note.

You were the light.

Written and produced by j.viewz
Vocals, Programming, Bass, Guitars: Jonathan Dagan
Drums: Ofer Levy
Guitars: Alon Albagli
Recorded at the j.viewz studio & Vibromonk Studios
Mixed by Jonathan Dagan
Mastered by Brian Lucey at Magic Garden Mastering

Every part of you is pulling me so don't pull away
Don't pull away
Every part of you is pulling me so don't pull away
Don't pull away

I don't want to change today
Cause nothing stays anyway
I don't want to change today
that hit just decayed
I'll give you more, I'll give me more,
Give me more, give me more

Every part of you is pulling me so don't pull away
Don't pull away

It hit that you changed your ways
that look on your face
it hit that you changed our place
but give it some time
I'll give you more, I'll give you more,
Give me more, give me more

Every part of you is pulling me so don't pull away
Don't pull away
Every part of you is pulling me so don't pull away
Don't pull away

So come along
So come along

Written by j.viewz, Mike Milosh, Wally De Backer
Programming, Guitars, Bass, Percussion: Jonathan Dagan
Vocals: Mike Milosh
Wurlitzer Sideman, Mellotron: Wally De Backer
Guitars: Alon Albagli
String Arrangement: Daniel Koren
Cello: Clara Kennedy
Viola: Jeanann Dara
Violin: Melisa Atoyan
Violin: Alex Fortes
Recorded at j.viewz Studio and Vibromonk Studios
Mixed by Jonathan Dagan
Mastered by Matt Colton at Alchemy Mastering
Special thanks to Your House On Fire’s Converse Sample Library

making up my mind
had a sound of a growing field
the quieter I got
the more I heard

all of the answers
(and the questions too)
are between the Atlantic
and your toes
and you
the sound of the mountains
the valleys
and the voicemail you left me
are one in the same
till they break apart again
I follow
I follow
I follow
I follow

in your arms I feel at peace
but you listen to something else
it’s my voice you fail to hear

stay, make me free
there are layers of endless behind this
stay, make me free
on the other side of this there’s silence

I follow

CREDITS
Vocals: Jonathan Dagan, Jófríður Ákadóttir �� Hang: Manu Delago �� Trumpet: Ari Bragi Kárason �� Additional Programming: André Absolut & Oran Loyfer
Recorded at the j.viewz Studio, Brooklyn, NY. Woodstock, NY. Þingvellir, Iceland. Mizpe Ramon, Israel.

It Was Over (So We Started)
when you opened your eyes
when you said so
when you opened your eyes
it was over

it was over
so we started
it was over
so we started
all that you brought over
all that you’ve given out so far

Credits
Vocals: Jonathan Dagan �� String Arrangement: Daniel Koren �� Cello: Clara Kennedy �� Viola: Jeanann Dara �� Violin: Melisa Atoyan �� Violin: Alex Fortes �� Trumpet: Ari Bragi Kárason
Recorded at the j.viewz Studio, Brooklyn, NY. Vibromonk, Brooklyn, NY. Þingvellir, Iceland.

Lyrics
Song

The DNA Project is completed.

This year has been the most exciting year of my life as a musician.
Thank you for joining me on this journey.

Your presence is felt every step of the way.

Now it's time to do some normal album stuff:
Finalize the mixes, master the whole thing, name the album, design the package, manufacture Vinyls, CDs, USB drives. set up the LIVE ACT and schedule some shows!

I will share this part of the process privately, to members only, right here.

Once the album is ready to be sent to you, this website will look much different;
It'll present a multidimensional album, the next j.viewz album.

You can Pre-Order the album here.

I hope you enjoyed this journey, thank you for believing in me and walking this path with me.
I can't wait to connect with you for real, hopefully in one of the next live shows.

Yours,
Jonathan

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Mono Light

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Simplon-Norm-Light

SupriaSans-Light

SupriaSans-Medium

A few nights ago I sat with some friends, we talked about Freedom, how each person has a different definition to what’s FREE to them. I love Nina Simone’s simple definition: “Freedom is no fear��.
A few days later I found myself dancing like an idiot in a Brooklyn bar. Luckily a sweet girl joined me and we were idiots together - it felt FREE. That night I wrote a single line to remember: “We moved like we’re not afraid��

I recently bought a cheap Crumar synth, it has only 5 sounds, including its beautiful, warm, BRASS patch. Been messing around with this patch, then duplicated it with a piano and programed a rough beat. Feel free to download/use the beat (below)

Worked on the beat a little more. Found a sweet, cheap-sounding, marimba sample, brings a slow-dance-beach-party movement into the picture.
A couple of files from the beat are available for you to download below. cut it, pitch it, change it... or use as is.

Another interview I bumped into; at one point Feist is asked about choosing band members; “How do you choose who to make mistakes with?�� simply poetic. The sentence got stuck in my head - the option to show your mistakes, an imperfect, unedited version, can be liberating. The line "Who do you make mistakes with" found its way into the next song

Taken from the Feist Q TV Interview

During the Kickstarter campaign I had this idea, and the concept totally works musically.. to be continued!

Camera: Roy Rochlin

In a recent trip to France I played with some vocal melodies on top of that Slow-Dance beat.
The day ended with a nice first verse and a potential chorus

LYRICS FROM THE DAY
You said "Who do you make mistakes with? What if I show you something not perfect?"
For a moment I've never heard anything else.
I forget I know how to dance.

Drew you a thought on a napkin that night
Lines weren't right but you opened your eyes
We're sprinting into a risk and we'll madly get hurt
Glorious heartbreak I'm writing with you

We moved like we're not afraid

Meet Benja!

Subway video courtesy of Buskrs

Today we let go of a Snare we loved (loved but not enough..,)
Feel free to download the sample I recorded below and use it!

Drums day with Yoni Halevy. Recorded with one mic only, and removed the Bassdrum altogether. On the right you can hear the drums inside the overall beat. Feel free to download and use the original recording!
UPDATE: Just got another version from the genius Tchad Blake - available below (thanks Tchad!)

Camera: Roy Rochlin �� Edit: Daphni Leef

These are the drum channels in this song...

We went up to Dobbs Ferry to collect some sounds for the bridge of the song

Camera: Roy Rochlin
Edit: Daphni Leef & Jonathan Dagan

Decided not to leave Dobbs Ferry till I had the 2nd verse written. First time that I get to look at the different steps in the writing process myself... Big thanks to Roy Rochlin for joining the trip and documenting!

Camera: Roy Rochlin �� Edit: Daphni Leef

Big thanks to Maayan Paldi and her gang for sending their beach party sounds! Placed it way back in the mix, but it still has a great impact on the feel of the 'beachy' parts in the song

A collection of some of the technical processes in the studio + my own vocal parts in the song.
You can download & use the processed Nuts recording - below (one of my favorite home made samples!)

Camera: Roy Rochlin

Mastering day for We Moved! Big thanks Brian Lucey for taking the time to talk about the process.

Recorded an explosive cabbage, ran through some pedals and added to the beat. You can download and use it - below (Ideal for those crunchy EDM snare snaps)

Working mostly nights and very early mornings on this song. "Almost forgot the heart" is the line I keep singing these days, after working on promoting, developing, technologing, facebooking for so long. good to be back

Vocal & Strings melody idea I just had (sorry for the quality, recorded on the go...)

Recording Silence, making a Bass Drum

The dust begins to settle.

�� This update is part of Song 2. Go to Tracks View to see the evolution of the song
��

The noise is over. Spent a few days in nature
�� I think I have a melody
�� I know what the song is about, not sure how to deliver it yet
�� Recorded these Wind Chimes, ran them through an old compressor, added the Cabbage recording and started this beat!
You can Download & Use my recording, enjoy!

Recorded a silly note to myself, but looks like a part of it is becoming the actual chorus

Edit: Daphni Leef �� Diner cam: Roy Rochlin �� Post: Tomer Rabinowitz

Walking around the subways singing the note from yesterday, think I found the chorus!

Kelli Scarr dropped by for a quick session. Loving her voice on this!

Snippets from two significant studio sessions...

I took the heartbeats of Kickstarter supporters and made an instrumental edit of #Almostforgot using their hearts as a click-track. BIG THANKS to everyone who donated their heart <3

�� Heart Detection: David Baet-Halahchmi

Obsessed with the synth sound at the beginning of this Karate Kid song. Sampled it and started this beat

I sent this rough idea to Keegan DeWitt of Wild Cub. A great voice for this Blade-Runner type vision.
Also - the VINYL HISS I'm using on many j.viewz songs is available for you to download & use. Enjoy!

Starting to collect sounds with Wild Cub

Building a layered pad with Wild Cub. Doug Mosher joined us on Sax - you can download one of his takes below

Last day with the Wild Cubs; chatting about the lyrics, laying down some vocal options, and back to NY!

LYRICS FROM THE DAY
I was lost and wandering
I couldn’t see your face
that tangled branch inside me
grew and grew to a deeper place

and I couldn’t say
or wash it away
the things that i had hid inside
I tried and tried

you stood there
in the night air
a flicker in the fading lights
you lift the veil from

my eyes
are open
open wide
we’re strangers in the dark tonight
blind hope
we don’t ask why
from the dark into the light

I stood there naked and I felt
new in front of your heart
made clean by your raw fire I
took the darkness and tore apart

I can’t go
I won’t hide
I need to hear you say that-

something’s shown
in the light
look me in my eyes

Lyrics: Keegan DeWitt ��

The song just CLICKED. (plus, free download for DNA members below)

A voice memo about darkness, light, and love...

It's the same intelligence, the one that makes you remember to breathe, and the one that makes the sun produce explosions 30 times the size of earth.
This is the most inspiring documentation of the sun by Nasa

This post is not linked to any song yet

Adding some last minute parts. Feel free to download and use a snippet from the bass I recorded - see below

A quick commentary before going live with the next song

View from the cabin at night - so quiet...

These are the sounds I collected this week. Just made this example of how they can be used. Below you can download and use all the hi-res samples

LYRICS FROM THE WOODSTOCK TRIP
"Don't let it open"
"Don't blow a cover"
But all the time is gone
and I just want to leave a note:
You were the light.

Drum session with Ofer Levy at Vibromonk Studio

Adding clicks, clanks, synths to Song #4. I think I have a vocal melody for the Woodstock lyrics too..

Post suggestions in comments ��

Thank you for all the name suggestions! song 4 is called "a Note" and here it is:

Trying a different way to record drums on Song #5

Processing the sounds we collected

party track by Bonafide3000

Vocal melody idea on the flight back..

Just playin with the Prophet 08 (beautiful analog synth)

Spent a few days in the Israeli desert, recording, writing... Some sounds coming soon

Recorded these giant wind-chimes in the desert. Feel free to download & use the samples I made below!

Brooklyn day, starting to arrange the stuff I wrote in the desert

Lyrics from today
making up my mind
had the sound of a growing field
(words missing here..)

all of the answers
and the questions too
are between the atlantic, and your toes
and you

the sound of the mountains
the valleys
and the voicemail you left me
are one in the same
till they break apart again

I think I finally nailed the sound of the huge mountains, the sea, the wind, all splashing together

My 25-hour Hi-Hat. You can download and use this below! MIDI included so you can align it with your BPM

Taken from two facebook Livestreams

Manu Delago stopped by the studio with his Hang drum. You can download some of his sounds below (thanks Manu!)

Producers, Drummers, Table-tappers:
Download the playback below (bottom right) and record your drum-fill.
Upload your WAV without my playback in the background �� Deadline: Sunday 9/20

Thanks for the drums you sent last week! I'm mixing two submissions from Oran and Andre

Here's the artwork for Don't pull away. Shot by Mike Milosh who also sings on it, design by Sebastian Gram. Listen to some pre-release thoughts from Mike & me below

I went back to the cabin I visited last winter. Things change, things develop.

The natural echo here is 100% real. so beautiful.

The quest to the female angle on this song led me to Jóf

Combining the beautiful ARP ODYSSEY noise with the SEA <3

You can download and use this!

Landed into a breathtaking light show. Then recorded with Ari between Tectonic plates

Spending an afternoon with the Patterning app in my Reykjavik Airbnb
Together with the strings from a few months ago, this is starting to feel nice!

YOU CAN DOWNLOAD AND USE MY FILES!

Day 2 in Iceland - "It was over, so we started"
Watch Day 1 here

My final update on the DNA Project. can't begin to express my gratitude for this past year
Now i'm off to mix, master, manufacture. more soon

Did you know

About the project

j.viewz
Brooklyn, NY

The making of an album is a beautiful process that most people don’t get to experience,�� says j.viewz. “The DNA Project was born out of a desire to break down the elements that the songs are made of, and to connect with my audience during this process. I'm intrigued by the option to share the experience of making my next album in real-time, and also to open the source of my songs and let other creators use the elements that I collect along the way. There are so many dimensions to music beyond the final product, I hope that this project will help unfold them.

The DNA Project is a music experiment by Brooklyn-based producer and songwriter j.viewz, that brings the power of community to the album-making experience. The DNA website gives fans access to the different components that form the songs, such as the sounds, the stories, and the people involved in the upcoming j.viewz album.

The Timeline view will be the home for every update throughout the project, even before the update becomes part of a song. Gradually, as the songs begin to form, they will start to appear as threads across the timeline, with each song-thread linking its corresponding updates. Clicking the songs will open the Tracks view, which will present the step-by-step evolution of every song and the progression of the entire album.

More information

Facebook��
Instagram��
Twitter��
Youtube��
SoundCloud��

Users can also access the DNA view for freeform exploration of the elements inside the songs. Some posts will allow users to download sounds and use them in their own songs, or even to build upon the files and upload their work back to the website, making it available to j.viewz or other users. This dialog can form a continuos 'remix' of content and form 'branches' on a creative tree. The project is planned to run for 10 months with a new song released approximately once a month.

j.viewz is embarking on the artistic journey with award-winning digital agency Hello Monday.

Together they will work toward redefining the way music is created in the digital space.

The list of

Credits

Jonathan Dagan

Hello Monday
Lead Developer, Anders Jessen
Developer, Torben Dalsgaard
Senior Art Director, Sebastin Gram
Senior Art Director, Marcus Fuchs
Project management, Karen Cecilie Sørensen
Account Director, Andreas Anderskou

Lead Video Editor, Tomer Rabinowitz
Video Editor, Daphni Leef
Color Grading, Jonathan Dagan
DP, Roy Rochlin
Menu Photos, Roy Rochlin, Ben Kirschenbaum
Members Engine Developer, Raanan Raz
Website Music, J.Views

All you wonderful people

Thank You!

For your support

For your talent, and the hours & hours of work: Anders Jessen, Sebastin Gram, Torben Dalsgaard, Andreas Anderskou, Suzy Rollins, John Hamilton Hodgson, Assaf Dagan, Roy Rochlin, Raanan Raz, Daniel Salmerón Amselem, Daphni Leef, Tomer Rabinowitz, Martin Guether, Lukas Hartmann

To everyone who contributed - this project could not have happened without your support. Special thank you: Ross Martin, Susan Claxton, Stephanie Pereira, Jon Leland, Tiffany kovarsy, Nicolaj Lank, Hayley Rosenblum, Or Toltec Tal, Shtef Constantin, Carsten Woharsey, Tomasz, Jason Sondhi, chase pashkowich, Terrance D. Schemansky, Julio Terra, Ray Segev, alon seren, Erez Weinstein, Gerard Talbot, Vidhaat Raman, Rozie Rap, Gal Lapidot, Michal Rosenn, James Bennett, Melissa Wong, Evan Hirsh, Not Nate, Jeff Lewis, Mor Sh, Rhys Chapman, Be.Man - The Mountain Rapper, Talya Stern, Will Griggs, Erika Hume, Uri Sadeh, Avior Halpern, Rupert Newton, Rotem Doron, Keyna Silva, Richard Hérout, Wonwoo Lee, Rickard, Anurag Shanker, Shahar Kimhi.

Sarah Swift, The Dagans, Peter Csathy, Gregg Demammos, Victor Holl, Ofir Michaeli, Janis Shen, Wendy Marquez

Any questions

Contact

J.Views
Brooklyn, NY

Website &
Licensing inquiries: grace.plante@kobaltmusic.com
All other inquiries: hello@jviews.net