’Southern Sun’ - Live Acoustic - Carla Werner

SOUTHERN SUN (Acoustic) OUT NOW through Newstate Music Recorded LIVE in my home studio during lockdown in New Zealand in April 2020. I have always meant to record an acoustic version of this song. It’s so honest when it is just guitar and vocal something really haunting about it. I remember being given the music which was written by Jamie Muhoberac, Carmen Rizzo & Paul Oakenfold while I was in Hollywood working with Carmen on my debut album ’Departure’. It took 45 minutes to write the lyrics and lock in the melody. At the time I was listening to a lot of Bjork’s ’Homogenic’ and Radiohead’s ’Ok Computer’, two of my all time favourite albums (perhaps because of the minor chords). I rode around to Carmen’s studio on my bike, and went right into t