BURN ME — Shavon Bonnie Legion | Makis Gibs
A Sound Legion Production
There is a strange conjunction between some of my vocals and the productions in these improvs, especially when ai backings are involved that often change flows so it takes great control in my head to keep the vocal melody straight but its a challenge i truly love flowing over freely. This one stumbles a bit in flow in the beginning but really gets cookin
“Burn Me” is a song about intensity that kind of desire that feels less like a thought and more like a force of nature. A burning sun. A pull toward something that lives somewhere between the body, the heart, imagination and the places we don’t always have words for.
This song began with an improvisation by Makis Gibs (Makis Paradeisopoulos) from his Awakening improv series Awakening Part 15, performed over an AI-generated backing track.
When I heard Makis’ guitar, something immediately opened up for me. I took the improvisation and wrote an entirely original lyric and vocal melody around this intensity feeling, then recorded my vocal performance and sent the track back to Makis. From there, he worked the pieces together and mixed the song into the final version you hear here.
So “Burn Me” became a meeting point between an improvised guitar performance and an original song, Makis bringing the guitar and its first emotional landscape, me answering it with lyrics, melody and voice, and then Makis shaping everything into the finished mix.
For the video, I wanted that same sense of two performances existing inside one shared space. I took Makis’ original live performance footage and placed it alongside my own close-mic performance, creating the feeling that we are performing the song together from two different places.
“Burn Me” is ultimately about the strange beauty of wanting the heat of something that can illuminate you, consume you, frighten you, and still make some part of you whisper,
burn me.
🔥 Shavon Bonnie Legion — lyrics, vocal melody, vocals, video production
🔥 Makis Gibs / Makis Paradeisopoulos — guitar improvisation, production & final mix
A Sound Legion Production
From the forthcoming album by Shavon Bonnie Legion & Makis Gibs.