Sam Haiman leaning against a wall in hard raking daylight

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Sam Haiman

/ˈheɪ.mɪn/ — it’s pronounced hey-min
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4

Songs released

1

EP — running out of time

2024

Four months, four songs

The record
so far

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running out of time

2:43
Released
27 September 2024
Tempo
114 BPM
Written by
Sam Haiman, Spencer Mijanovich
Label
Theo Sounds

thinkin’ about you

2:50
Released
2 August 2024
Tempo
100 BPM
Written by
Sam Haiman, Daniel Knittel, Michelle Periera
Label
Theo Sounds

no good

3:37
Released
21 June 2024
Tempo
103 BPM
Written by
Sam Haiman, Adam Moore, Meredith Snyder
Label
Theo Sounds

babylon

4:10
Released
10 May 2024
Tempo
86 BPM
Written by
Sam Haiman, Spencer Mijanovich
Label
Theo Sounds

Everything,
in order

2019 — 2024

  1. 27 Dec 2019 show me love (live) America Salutes You · Guitar Legends 3
  2. 10 May 2024babylonSingle
  3. 21 Jun 2024no goodSingle
  4. 02 Aug 2024thinkin’ about youSingle
  5. 27 Sep 2024running out of timeEP · Theo Sounds

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About

Hey-min

Songs about the gap between who you think you are and who you actually are.

Sam Haiman spends his days behind a console. He is a working audio engineer with a home studio full of the same gear he points at everybody else’s records — and the songs get made in the hours around that job, which is to say early, late, and in between.

In December 2019 he played Show Me Love live on America Salutes You: Guitar Legends 3, a benefit built around brain and mental wellness programs for veterans and service members. Then it went quiet for a while.

It came back in 2024 as a four-month run: babylon in May, no good in June, thinkin’ about you in August, and the running out of time EP in September — written with Spencer Mijanovich, Daniel Knittel, Adam Moore, Meredith Snyder and Michelle Periera, out on Theo Sounds. Together they have been played more than 293,000 times.

The subject barely moves across all four: anxiety, self-doubt, and the specific stupidity of believing you can’t do the thing you already know how to do.

“This song is about believing you are incapable of doing the things you want to do, or being the person you want to be — and realizing you are wrong in that belief.” Sam Haiman on “running out of time”
Label
Theo Sounds
Produced by
Tommy Champion, Daniel Knittel, Johnny Murray, Sam Haiman
Screen work
Big Kenny’s Crank It Up Garage, American Anthems, Ringside in the Mountains
Close portrait of Sam Haiman in warm lamplight

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No algorithm in the middle. New songs, demos that never made it, and the occasional note from the studio — sent straight to you, and not often.

running out of time

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