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D. Park has done the outrageous. The producer, composer, arranger, recording engineer and multi-instrumentalist has taken instantly recognizable songs and totally transformed them with his personal musical sensibilities. The Toronto-based artist’s cleverly-titled project Carbon Copies, is a 6-song collection of re-interpolations, spanning 50 years of pop music, featuring ubiquitous hits by Billie Eilish, Drake, The Beatles, Taylor Swift and Earth, Wind & Fire. The results are surprisingly cohesive given the various genres and decades the songs are culled from, showcasing both the durability of these smash hits and the strength of the Toronto-based artist’s well-developed aesthetic.
About the EP, Park comments “It’s kind of weird, because I’ve written songs and original music my whole life, but ‘Carbon Copies’ is kind of my magnum opus on creativity. We think of creativity as being about differences, and yet so often original music seems to be about similarities. Doing covers let me forget about sounding ‘like this’ or fitting into ‘that scene’. Instead I could just focus on doing the songs my own way and showing people how different a song can be.
On the other hand, I also just find covers really fun. I love surprising an audience with something they know. From the get-go, I picked songs that I thought were really universal from different decades and scenes of pop music. I recorded and mixed all the tracks myself in my home studio, and we shot all the music videos in one day in my basement. It was a really fun project, because the songs are something everyone can get into and everybody knows. Anybody who can’t get down to ‘September’ has to be an alien.”
