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'I hope Kanye samples it': the day centre with its own recording studio | Musique Non Stop

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Thursday, January 31, 2019

'I hope Kanye samples it': the day centre with its own recording studio

Learning-disabled people at the Daylight centre are exploring their creativity by releasing their own songs

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It’s 11am on Friday morning and there are some weird and wonderful psychedelic sounds emanating from a small, makeshift music studio in north London. Inside, Patricia Angol is playing the xylophone, Mui Tang is touching a Kaoss Pad – an audio effects unit – and Fathima Maharali is singing into a microphone. When they finish, their session leader, Jack Daley, fiddles on a computer, overlaying each musical section before playing it back. There are smiles and high-fives all round.

Daley is a music producer who works at the Daylight centre for adults with learning disabilities, which is run by Islington council. He started private and group sessions composing and producing electronic music with service users two years ago. Since then, countless song lyrics have been written, an EP has been released (with another on the way), and there’s an animated music video to go with the title track, Watermelon Fantasy. Everything has been produced by the people who attend the centre with the help of creative professionals.

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by Sarah Johnson via Electronic music | The Guardian

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