About this Track
- Added on 13 November 2025
- Year of creation 2025
- Tags emotional, experimental pop, dark, experimental, electronic, pop
- 5 plays
Credits
If You Down is a dark and intimate piece about falling and the wish to be remembered when you do. Repeating the word “down” like a mantra, the song circles around loss, absence, and the thin line between surrender and release. The music’s distortion mirrors that descent: the voice fights to stay afloat in a collapsing world of sound, turning pain into something strangely beautiful.
With this track Melodies In My Head start a new series of short audio pieces that they call "thoughts". By taking excerpts from mostly improvised material they capture the magic of intense moments from these recording sessions. If You Down features the voice of Nin Lil (Sophie Adam) who performed without any preparation lyrical snippets from Thomas' notes to rough sound loop drafts from Daniel.
lyrics
If You Down
Down
If you feel
Down
If you look
Down
If you jump
Down
If you fall
Down
Down
If you feel
Down
If you look
Down
If you jump
Down
If you fall
Down
Please know deep
Down
Please know deep
Down
Please know deep
Down
Please know deep
Down
That we miss you
credits
released November 13, 2025
Music written and produced by Daniel Jakob and Thomas Burkhalter
Lyrics written by Thomas Burkhalter and Daniel Jakob
Voice by Nin Lil (Sophie Adam), recorded by Daniel Jakob at Filewile Studio
Mixed by Daniel Jakob at Filewile Studio
Mastered by Ben Fay at blackpearlaudio
license
Melodies in My Head is 2023 founded duo of Swiss music producer Daniel Jakob and anthropologist, AV artist, and founder of Norient Thomas Burkhalter. The lyrics are drawn largely from ethnographic...