![]() ![]() " Bananamelia! has been my way back in, just trying to go back and recapture what made me want to start making electronic music in the first place, way back in 2015 when Reuben taught me the ropes of Ableton and showed me how to cut breaks. "After my friend Reuben died in 2020, I found it really hard to keep making music," says Berry. The album can be played seamlessly on loop, like a grooving ouroboros. Inspired by Cornelius' 1997 album Fantasma and Soichi Terada's 1996 album Sumo Jungle Grandeur, Amamelia's Bananamelia! loops and resamples itself, repeating the evocative chimes, homesick synths, field recordings, smooth strings and of course drum breaks. Amamelia's music combines breaks normally found in Jungle & Drum & Bass with a sugary synthetic pop sensibility.įollowing the unexpected Tiktok hit Gap Selection, Student Radio Network favourite Colourbox, and the recently released C'est Chic, Amamelia now shares her long awaited sophomore album Bananamelia! (out digitally and on Vinyl LP on November 3 via Sunreturn ). ![]() ![]() November 3 2022: Amamelia is the musical project of Amelia Berry (she/her), a musician and songwriter currently based in Tāmaki Makaurau. ![]()
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