“Building Together” Student Songwriter & Artist Interviews

Building Together

This fundraising compilation record brought to you by SixTwelve & Swat Meet Inc out of OKC.
Over the summer, both community building/after care programs banded together to create a unique experience for children, musicians, listeners and the community.
They assembled a team of Oklahoma based artists to meet up with kids from their respective aftercare programs virtually, talked to them about what kind of songs they would want to hear and helped them develop these ideas. Then, they reached out to artists from all over Oklahoma to transform these wild child imaginings into fully fledged songs. The record sees familiar bands performing material about content you might not usually expect from them. From Jabee crooning about different cartoons over the decades, Samantha Crain singing about how the world loves to be green or Broncho singing about the simplicity of a great friendship. And everything in between. By purchasing this record, you are helping to keep SixTwelve & Swat Meet doing what they do best. Working together to build a better community. Thank you.

stepmom & Abby Black “See What I See” This heart warming interview with stepmomband & Abby Black (a burgeoning songwriter in her own right) talk about their collaboration for our "Building Together" fundraising record! The interview shows them writing together and a lovey snippet about the African philosophy, Ubuntu. "IAmBecauseWeAre"

Chelsea Days is an American rock band from Oklahoma City that formed in 2019. Their music is described as an "alternative-pop with a country bend/lo-fi esthetic." The song Countryside was conceptualized by Kai Kallio and Everly Halley, two 612 students, about their grandparents farm and Chelsea Days brought it to life on the Building Together Album.

Alexus Anderson is a 20-year-old R&B artist from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Her influences include Jhené Aiko, SZA, and Summer Walker. Alexus is also a part of the nonprofit organization Swat Meet, volunteering her time to help younger students to write music. Alexus loves singing about things everyone can relate to on an emotional level. She says it “makes it easier for everyone to understand and enjoy.” Please give a listen to the Building Together Album to hear Alexus Anderson's beautiful voice on the song "Better Days" which, is also written by her. The Building Together Album is currently available for purchase at https://sixtwelvemusic.bandcamp.com/album/building-together

Part electronica, part rock, and part space invaders the Endocrine Twins are a masked duo that synthesizes sounds from Squarepusher to Melt-Banana to Bjork. Hear their otherworldly sounds on 612’s Building Together Album on the song titled “Trees” written by Hope Gregory.

Celebrating our new friendship with Broncho with the single “Friends” co-written by our own Gaius Sanchez for our Building Together fundraising record. Here’s Ryan & Gaius talking about their writing processes, how similar they are and loving their friends! You can now listen to Friends anywhere you like and you can purchase the record here https://sixtwelvemusic.bandcamp.com/album/building-together

These two musical gurus contributed their talents to the residency program by recording an album and working with Graveface Records in Savannah, Georgia and gave a great performance at The Jinx. The duo, Nicholas Ley and Matt Kirksey, both drummers in the Flaming Lips, have also DJ’d events at SixTweve, helping us raise funds for our programs and for the Curbside OKC. Nick teaches at ACM and Matt has embarked on a new adventure in costume design for films shot in Oklahoma. We have loved hearing the music they’ve created for their album and are so grateful for the song they contributed to the Building Together project! “Full Send” is their interpretation of a song about the video game, Fortnite, that kids and volunteers from Swat Meet INC submitted and it makes us want to dance! We hope you like it too!

Spaceface is a psychedelic-pop band from Memphis, TN and Los Angeles, CA, active since 2013. The band's founding members include Jake Ingalls, Matt Strong, Eric Martin, and Daniel Quinlan. They recently expanded their line-up and enrolled a variety of new talent, including Katie Pierce of Pierced, from Los Angeles. Many of the members of Spaceface have had a huge hand in the development of the Building Togther Album, also Spaceface has participated in 612 residency program. The SixTwelve Theme Song, was written and recorded by Jake Ingalls of Spaceface in collaboration with Joe Camerlengo and Courtney Hall of Classical Baby, a recording project out of Columbus, Ohio, who write kids’ music but also help adults/big kids magically rock out too!

Jabee's "Cartoons of the Decades", inspired by Bentley's whimsical idea. Bently is a 612 student and loves cartoon history. We sat down and interviewed both of them to talk about the process of making this song and how they felt about it all. Check it out, then listen to the song anywhere you like to stream or purchase your music! If you wanna spin this tune on proper wax, you can find the the "Building Together" compilation record up for presale on our band camp via the link here https://sixtwelvemusic.bandcamp.com/album/building-together

LUST is a beat-driven pop trio based in Oklahoma City. Starting as a recording collaboration in the fall of 2018, LUST has since evolved into an active live project. They worked with a 612 student on this song who loved singing about her favorite foods. They were particuarly inspired by the students stream of consciousness style of lyrics.