MARISSA CARPENTER
Victory Moon. That’s the loose translation of Jay Som, San Francisco musician Melina Duterte’s baby-name-generator-inspired band name. Since 2012, Duterte (who also plays in Bay Area band Summer Peaks) has quietly shared songs online under the Jay Som moniker.
Shortly after moving from her hometown of Brentwood, California, to San Francisco last November, Duterte released Turn Into, nine “finished and unfinished” guitar-driven lo-fi pop songs that she wrote, recorded, and mixed herself while learning to play drums. “I accumulated a bunch of instruments and equipment throughout time, and I took classes for audio engineering,” she says. “I did everything by myself”…