2. MIND HARMONY PRODUCTION
Mind Harmony Production began at a night class in San Francisco State University’s
downtown campus, where William ‘Loky’ W.J and Patrick ‘Murasaki’ Orara met by chance.
As soon as they began to talk, they discovered a common hobby: music. Patrick was an
aspiring songwriter and rapper, while William was a music composer and sound engineer.
Soon after they met, William composed and gave Patrick an instrumental composition for
him to work on. Within days, Patrick wrote lyrics for that instrumental and rapped it, then
sent it back to William. After William and his associates heard Patrick’s work, they were
immediately impressed by Patrick’s talents as a songwriter. This lead William to realize
that Patrick’s voice and songwriting talents might just be the perfect match for his music
compositions and production skills. After their first collaborative song, the two decided to
form a full production team and continue to work together to develop innovative song
ideas, lyrics, mixes, and instrumental compositions.
3. WHAT WE DO
SONG IDEAS – creating, structuring, and organizing
LYRICS - writing, arranging, editing, and polishing
MUSIC – composition, arrangement, mixing, and remixing
VOCAL – demoing, polishing, and consulting
4. MUSIC PHILOSOPHY
Music is a limitless world, reflective of our lives, ideas, and sensations. Within this auditory
universe-- composed of thoughts and conducted by rhythm-- our goal is to make and
create music that resonates within the hearts of all people.
TEAM PHILOSOPHY
We make music that defines every moment in life, because every moment, is a verse, cho-
rus, and bridge - moments and feelings we had in life are the key elements into our process
in creating music.
5. Patrick “Murasaki” Orara was born on September 19th 1981 to a mother who was an
avid pop music listener, and to a father who was an aspiring rock songwriter. At the age of 3
Murasaki memorized, Stevie Wonder’s “I just called to say I love you”. The particular tempo
and vocal syncopation served as the foundation of what was to come as Murasaki’s personal
style. During his youth, Patrick was introduced to the golden era Hip-Hop and Rock. As a youth,
one of his particular hobbies was to master reciting his favorite raps from Wu Tang Clan, Hiero-
glyphics, Bone Thugs and Harmony.
In his teenage years, Murasaki found himself immersed in the world of rap battling. He chal-
lenged himself to battle in the halls of his high school, on air over the weekly radio rap contests,
and anywhere else an opportunity to showcase his talents presented itself. In 2003, Murasaki
released his first mix tape, dubbed “Welcome to the Boonies Vol. One”. A year later, more mix
tapes would follow including “Vol. 2” and “The Mix tape from nowhere”, where he shifted his
lyrical direction from rap into songwriting.
In 2006, Murasaki moved to San Francisco, the new atmosphere inspired Murasaki; wherein
the likes of Lupe Fiasco, MGMT, and even foreign genre such as J-pop, and K-pop served as
a major influence. During this time, Murasaki started to write for other rappers, singers, and rock
bands. In fall 2009, just as the mixtape “The Purple Tape” finished, Murasaki and William “Loky”
WJ met in a music marketing class at SFSU and became close friends and business associates.
And from there Loky and Murasaki understood that they shared the same life-long dreams of
making music-- and thus the innovative and talented songwriting partnership of Mind Harmony
Productions was begun.
PATRICK “MURASAKI” ORARA
6. William “Loky” W.J is a songwriter, composer, sound engineer, and producer. Born 1988, March
3rd and a native of Hong Kong, he was first introduced to alternative Rock and Pop as a child,
and since then, was fascinated with music. In 1999, he moved to San Francisco, California, where
he had his first taste of Funk, R&B, and Hip Hop, and promptly fell in love with their rhythm and style.
During Loky’s high school years, one of his middle school friends, knowing that Loky was good
with the piano and keyboard, asked to help him and his cousin, who did West Coast Hip Hop
music. This was the first time Loky was exposed to the process of making of music and it’s production;
from then on he would spend countless days and night at that studio, writing new synth lines and
melodies. During this time, his friend gave him the nickname ‘Lowkey’, because of his personality in
the studio: soft spoken, quiet, but extremely focused in being creative.
After 2 years, the group fall apart, but they left Loky with new found ambition - Music; the only
thing that motivated him and he thought to turn it into his career. Loky begin producing beats and
instrumentals, promoting them on different music online forums. This gave him the opportunity to col-
laborate with people from different states and different countries, although he was never able to
work face to face with these people, he was able to gain experience on how to work with different
kinds of artist and their specific styles of production.
During his college year, he met a classmate called Patrick Orara, a.k.a Murasaki. And from there
the 2 realize that they shared the same dream of a 9 to 5 life in making music … thus the beginning
of one of the greatest songwriting production duo in the world was born …
WILLIAM “LOWKEY” WJ
WILLIAM “LOKY” W.J.
