About the song Nobody Knows
Nobody Knows is a song written and composed by Andrew T Branch, Sara Azriel and Tiki Black. The song has a contemporary singer-songwriter vibe to it.
This version of Nobody Knows is part of the sophomore album. Check out the talents that co-wrote the oeuvre with Tiki Black: Andrew T Branch and Sara Azriel.
The retreat that birthed the song Nobody Knows
Nobody knows was created during a lovely music retreat in France. World-renowned music publisher and songwriting mentor Judy Stakee organised that 2017 retreat. The attraction in Judy’s methods was her way of taking into account the artist as a whole, body, mind and soul. This transpired in the bonds created, the art birthed and the emotions exchanged. Nobody Knows is one of the fruits that this mentor’s gift enabled. She created an inspiring environment and settings that kindled the muse’s spark, in a way that would make Brad Bird proud. I actually wrote 32 songs while I was there. This is without counting the collaborative works. And with all that, I was only there 7 days.
Collaboration
The way I work on my own is very different to the way I collaborate. Not many people would have the patience I take to form my songs but the amount of time I take is not always an advantage. Looking for that perfect word sometimes keeps me from closure, moving on and accepting that the song is completed. The other difference is that my songs begin with a feeling which I express most often on the piano first. The journey I take from my personal experience or my understanding of another’s to a more universally shared world is mine alone to take.
So when Andrew T Branch started singing and I could feel the beating of his heart in the vibrations of his voice, and Sara Azriel’s fingers started moving on the piano, it was a new experience. I had to stop being a music fan admiring two talented musicians and songwriters and join in as an additional writer. I sang, I made suggestions, I listened. And unlike the songwriting process of a solo songwriter, in collaborations, I was aware of the suggestions I made and the changes I insisted on and how fastidious it all sounded and yet I could not stop myself from changing a mere tiny word here and there for the perfect beauty and sense of a creation that I was just grateful to ultimately be a tiny part of.