ONFAYA Find A Softer Side To The Dancefloor On ‘11:11’
A melody that sounds like a bell gives ONFAYA’s ‘11:11’ its most distinctive detail. It’s a small sound against the percussion and warm synths, and the duo leave enough space around it for it to register. The single arrives on Déepalma Records on 13th November, following their debut for the label, ‘I Can Feel It’.
The percussion gives ‘11:11’ its pace. The vocal changes its mood. There’s a touch of melancholy in the way the voice sits against the warmer synths, and the arrangement takes its time bringing those sounds together. You can hear why it would work outdoors towards sunset, when there’s still a crowd moving and enough room in a set for a record to change the mood.
ONFAYA wrote the track during a period of personal change. It deals with the way people stay present in your memory after your lives have gone in different directions. That gives the bell melody a little more weight. Its simplicity makes it easy to remember, and the space around it lets that feeling sit alongside a rhythm that keeps moving.
The duo have taken their sound from Cova Santa in Ibiza and KOKO in London to Dubai, Mumbai and even Antarctica. The places give some idea of how far their music has travelled. ‘11:11’ offers a more intimate sense of what they bring to those rooms. The feeling comes through in a few carefully placed sounds, with the vocal and that bell melody doing most of the work.
