mi wile
mi wile is my first ep, and first attempt at original music. i don't remember why or how i started creating it, but i knew i wanted to present it at suno pi toki pona 2022. it originally was going to have four songs, but two of them were scrapped because i was running out of time to get them finished. 'mi wile' and 'wawa' were going to be those first two tracks, followed by 'pilin tonsi' and 'mi pilin ante'.
remasters
because the ep was so rushed and i barely knew anything about music production outside of composition, the quality is pretty bad. i made a remastered version of the ep, which was presented for suno pi toki pona 2023. it has much better audio quality, a better mix, and a few other little changes. you can read about it here.
scrapped songs
i had originally planned to release the ep with two other songs, 'mi wile' and 'wawa', but had to scrap them due to lack of motivation and not having enough time before suno pi toki pona 2022. when i started working on my upcoming album, i decided to bring those songs back. they are going to be the third and seventh tracks respectively.
album art
the album art for mi wile contains the sitelen pona glyphs for 'mi wile', its latin script below them, and 'tan jan Kepi' in a smaller font size below that. this style of white sitelen pona on a black background is pretty common for me, i use it for the thumbnails of my toki pona cover videos. this style is inspired by jan Usawi's earlier album art, especially from their ep __lon__. similar to my other thumbnails, mi wile uses the font linja pona. i liked the font at the time, but i've switched to linja lipamanka and will be using that from now on.