You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made. I'm Rishikesh Herway.

This episode contains explicit language.

Hyam is a band from Los Angeles, made up of the sisters Danielle, Estee, and a lot of Hyam.

They've released three albums and they've been nominated for three Grammys.

Over the years, they've worked extensively with Grammy-winning producer Arielle Rekshide.

He and Danielle are also a couple, and I only mentioned that because it's relevant to the story you're about to hear.

I spoke to Danielle and Arielle about the making of the song Summer Girl from Hyam's third album, Women in Music, Part 3.

In this episode, they break down the song along with Estee Hyam and the song's co-producer and co-writer, Rostem.

My name is Danielle Hyam.

My name is Arielle Rekshide.

I'll never forget I had heard a cast Macomb song that I loved called Counting Line.

I remember looking up who did this album, who produced this, this is awesome.

I saw this name Arielle Rekshide.

Then I think a couple of weeks later I heard the Usher song Climax.

I looked it up and oh my gosh, there's that name again, Arielle Rekshide.

Wait, he did cast Macomb's and then he did an Usher song.

So I remember telling my manager like, hey, I want to meet with this guy.

And that's how we met in 2012.

We had a chemistry and did a few songs.

And at one point, I was in London mixing a record and Hyam happened to be camped out there doing press.

And we sort of reconnected for the first time in a while.

I don't know if it was just a moment in time, like two Valley Kids trapped in London.

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