Opus Pilates

"Opus Pilates" is the debut album by John Noir Smith. It was released on the 10th of October, 2018.

Background
"Opus Pilates" was years in the making.

Back in 2014 John Noir Smith attended Norges Kreative Høyskole in Bergen, studying Music Design under the likes of Geir Luedy (known to most for managing Aurora, whom he discovered right before he was tutoring John). His production style evolved massively here, as well as his songwriting style. It is from this era he recorded "Chasing Rainbows" (though it would be remixed and remastered in 2018), as well as wrote songs such as "Baby" and "Amber Evening". He also worked on trying to record a version he was happy with of "The Clam" (which he'd written in 2013), but to no avail.

Then he moved back to Drammen in 2015, and it seems not too much happened musically with John until 2017 came along (apart from recording "Outside It's Raining" during the Summer of 2015). At the start of 2017 he broke up with the girl he'd been living with for the past year. Soon after he started producing a ton of music, among others the songs "One More Slice of Pizza", "(La La La) Spring", "Electrify Your World", "Vårfestival", "Everything", and many many more.

As one can see were a lot of the songs starting to come together. He then realized he'd have to make an album. It had probably been his plan since 2014 to make an album, but not getting enough material he was satisfied with. He then got himself a proper home studio, and started working a lot on mixing and mastering. And in 2018 he was finishing up.

The first single to be released was ""Baby"", a meta song about the song "Baby", featuring "One More Slice of Pizza" as its B-side. To John's surprise was "One More Slice of Pizza" received incredibly well, while people were having difficulty understanding ""Baby"". This made him reconsider the song, and ultimately include it in the track listing for "Opus Pilates". This single was released 16 May 2018.

The next single to be released as a teaser for the album was "Chasing Rainbows (Single Version)", where he'd cut out a verse and a chorus, as well as removed the drum machine intro. Its B-sides were "Everyone Is Glowing in the Dark" (a demo version which wasn't as polished, but had a lot of charm to it) and "Oh Yeah" (a simple electronic song which is highly repetetive). This single was released in 27 July 2018.

Then on 10 October 2018 the album itself was released.

Track listing

 * 1) What If All the Witch Trials Were Right #2 (1:41)
 * 2) Oh Mercy (4:00)
 * 3) Chasing Rainbows (Andrian's Choice) (2:50)
 * 4) "Baby" (4:23)
 * 5) One More Slice of Pizza (2:21)
 * 6) No Reason Why (4:40)
 * 7) Outside It's Raining (2:56)
 * 8) The Clam (4:12)
 * 9) Amber Evening (2:35)
 * 10) Lunatic (8:08)
 * 11) What If All the Witch Trials Were Right #1 (0:55)

All songs written by John Noir Smith.