Born Days - My Little Dark (2023)

My Little Dark is a project that has been several years and several thousand miles in the making. Harris began making experimental music under the name Born Days in 2017 as a way to express herself, process her memories, and heal from the complexities of trauma to reconnect with the purity and innocence that is part of the innate order of nature. After receiving critical acclaim on her first two self-released EPs from Bandcamp, Chicago Tribune, Destroy//Exist, Audiotree, and beyond, she went on to perform live sets and music festivals with globally recognized talent like Neggy Gemmy, George Clanton, Beach Bunny, Kedr Livanskiy, and Caroline Polachek.

Struggling to find a quiet place to record the new album once Covid hit the US, Harris was stricken with severe agoraphobia and debilitating anxiety. Confined to her tiny, paper-thin walled one-bedroom apartment in Chicago, she realized that recording at her home studio was no longer an option. As the sounds of the city began to haunt every corner of her recording studio, she developed an acute sensitivity to sound that temporarily prevented her from recording and mixing her music.

Determined not to let anything get in the way, she threw her gear in the car and spontaneously drove across the country, spending the next three months recording nearly 10 hours daily in a tiny bedroom closet in the middle of the desert. Recorded and produced between the deserts of Arizona and her home studio in Illinois, Harris takes credit as a writer, producer, singer, and key instrumentalist on guitar, bass, synths, and samplers. Harris used various intricate and experimental recording methods to create the sounds on My Little Dark. She experimented with simulated modular synths to sculpt and mold her own sounds, wavetable synths and granulators to pitch, stretch, and manipulate sound, field recordings, found sound, and her own voice to create and build the samplers and instruments you will hear on the record.

My Little Dark is an existentialist love album devoted to the little ghosts and dark shadows lurking within our minds' hidden corners, and a beacon to carry on.