Melody's Echo Chamber - Shirim

It feels like our sun has gone. It seems like you're almost gone.

Album: Bon Voyage [2nd album]
Recorded: Solna, Sweden
Genre: Neo-Psychedelia
Album Release: April 15th 2018
Single Release: October 15th 2014 [lead single]
Length: 4.46
Producer: Melody's Echo Chamber
Vocalist: Melody Prochet [age 27]
Label: Fat Possum & Domino Records

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Live in 2015

Charts, Streams & Sales

Spotify: 20,000,000 +
YouTube Music: 1,200,000 +

Credits & Gear

Melody Prochet plays every instrument.

Details

• The album release was pushed back by a year after Melody Prochet had a brain aneurysm.
• Melody's Echo Chamber began in 2012 when Melody Prochet started a romantic and professional relationship with Kevin Parker, who is also known as Tame Impala.
• Break up songs are normally told from one point of view but what happens when both parties are singer-songwriters? The answer is the Tame Impala-Melody Prochet saga that played out in a series of songs in 2014. The first was 'Eventually' by Tame Impala in which Parker says "if only there could be another way to do this cause it feels like murder to put your heart through this". Parker is ending the relationship which Melody confirms in 'Shirim' "I decided more after you let me go". The figure of Tame Impala would loom over Melody's Echo Chamber long after the split and fans speculate that Imapala's songs 'The Moment' and 'Nothing Has Happened So Far... ' are also references to Prochet.
  
  The self titled debut album from Melody's Echo Chamber was released in 2012 to great critical success. Though, in a move that must have irked Prochet, the records positive reception would be credited solely to producer Tame Impala. At this point, the music industry was abuzz with the music of Impala while Prochet was an unkown and the press viewed Melody's Echo Chamber as a Tame Impala side project rather than something Prochet was instrumental in creating. Parker played a key part in making the album but so did Prochet. Almost as if to show what she was capable of Prochet played every single instrument on her 2014 single 'Shirim' herself.
  
  If Melody's Echo Chamber was a man taking credit for a womans work then 'Bon Voyage' is Prochet setting sail as the captain of her own ship. The results were mixed but the work was all hers. As a way of showing a male dominated industry what a woman can do 'Shirim' pulls up anchor on the good ship feminism and leaves the naysayers ashore.
  
  
• 'Shirim' is a mantra used in transcendental meditation to bring forth joy and prosperity.
  
• Breakup song.
• "I couldn’t complain, but in my heart something felt wrong with the press and people’s reflections. Maybe my only regret is that as a friend and producer he never acknowledged it and didn’t do anything to protect me or my work." (Melody Prochet talking to The Guardian about working with Tame Impala)
  
  
  

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