This is “Happy to be Here Diane”.

We’re an indie duo from Brazil writing little songs. This is our newsletter, in which we’re going to each write little thoughts about everything and anything.

This is our second EP, “The Guest Room Floor”, available pretty much everywhere. It is cool.

I had absolutely nothing to do with this song. Being honest here, I did no arrangement, no backing vocal, nothing. After recording our first two songs for the EP, Leandro just presented this to me, and it was a perfect ending. I’m just a passenger here.

Maybe that’s counterproductive to the whole duo thing, the possibilities of it, particularly when compared to “The Basement Tapes”, closer for the previous EP, which was our one song we wrote together, but I believe that partnership is also letting the other shine when it’s their time, and this was the Leandro show and I’m more than happy to ride along for once.

I think this is a beautiful song. To contradict myself a little, there is one thing I did to contribute to this song: fight for the current vocal delivery. This was the first one by Leandro and it has this very small, very delicate and heartbroken quality to it, that the others he tried to record after just didn’t have. I deferred to his choice in this one, one hundred percent, but I really argued in favor of this initial recording, because it was perfect for it. A magical moment.

I’m really excited to one day play this one live. I can clearly imagine how to translate Leandro’s arrangements to my guitar. It’s going to be a beautiful day.

Remember 2020? Man, what a ride that was. This song came out of that time.

It started with me just messing around on the guitar, which is what I usually do when I’m bored or have no clue what to play. That’s when I landed on the two chords that make up the whole song.

I’ve always loved songs that stick to the same chords all the way through.

Then I had this idea for lyrics where each verse would be a day of the week — hence the title. But in the end, I dropped that concept and just kept the title.

The song sat around for ages because it was basically just four verses and nothing else. It didn’t really feel like a song yet.

But this year, in a pretty heavy moment of anxiety and depression, I went ahead and recorded vocals and guitar separately, with a decent take.

After that, I started experimenting with pads and synths and came up with that humming sound, which, for me, finally made it feel like a complete song.

I showed it to JP and he was like, “Alright, we’ve got the last track for the EP.”