"Day Or Night"
Dwight + Nicole
Cris Cohen: One of the most interesting stories I read about this album was the creation of “Day or Night,” the title track, and the idea that it came from three disparate songs that were only partly completed. And then they melded together, which doesn’t happen that often. I’m wondering if you can walk me through how one does that, how one takes a bit from here and a bit from there but makes it all work as a cohesive entity.
Dwight Ritscher of Dwight + Nicole: I use my little recording app, the basic app on an iPhone, to record ideas throughout the day, all day, every day. These different phrases came over a couple of weeks. And I began to feel that they belong together somehow.
And you’re right, it doesn’t happen like that. I don’t know why I felt they were related to each other. But I couldn’t ignore it for some reason. I had a bunch of mumbles around these phrases. I brought the mumbles to Nicole. She said, “It sounds like you’re saying ‘day or night.’”
And then the whole song… that was the glue that made them all start to make sense. And then the lyrics flowed from there.
It was an odd thing.