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Giuseppe Cucé is a songwriter from Catania who made 21grammi with producer Riccardo Samperi and a big cast of players. The album leans on real instruments and real room sound: Hammond organ, piano, bass, drums and percussion, keys and programming, vocal harmonies, plus a studio orchestra and horn section. Cucé’s concept is the “21 grams”…
David Goundry is a London singer-songwriter and guitarist leaning into 60s psychedelia on “Lucy (Remix 2026).” He’s backed by Joanna Griggs on vocals and worked with producer Nick Sykes, whose credits include Average White Band and Go West. Goundry also points to the Beatles, Small Faces, and ELO as reference points for where he’s pushing…
DJThriller is a Los Angeles artist working in hip-hop with MOZS on “Locked N Loaded.” The track comes with a long music video that plays like a short film, with an opening skit written by Darrell K. Horn and the visual produced by OnslaughtStudios LLC. The backstory is as homegrown as it gets: built during…
Chris Ami is a UK-based electronic producer, and Temperament is his debut album. The record is built around single-word track titles pulled from emotional and psychological territory, and it leans on a hybrid palette, electronic production with piano and orchestral textures in the frame. “Hubris” sets the concept plainly by opening with a licensed Alan…
Apstara is the Los Angeles project of singer, songwriter, and composer Juliet Lyons. She’s worked professionally for years as a vocalist, and she also has a parallel career writing for film and television under her given name. This cover launches her Etherealized Series, a set of reworks built around voice layering and atmosphere. She also…
Zachary Mason is a Guildford, UK artist who records at home and releases music at a steady clip. He’s built a big backlog of demos since getting a recording kit from a relative, and he’s already well into double digits on singles. For “Sweetheart,” he brought in drummer Nate Barnes of Rose Hill Drive and…
Michael Servus Mariae is a songwriter and author who also publishes daily gospel prayer journals. “Unity” starts from an online prayer text that he says hit him instantly, the kind of words that already carry their own melody. He spent months working the piece, revising it with professional feedback, aiming for hymn-writing that can actually…
Schau.Schou is a new Norwegian duo pairing Kristopher Schau and Christoffer Schou. It started as a namesake link-up: Kristopher realized Christoffer was also an active musician, sent over rough song sketches, and Christoffer produced and arranged them into a five-track EP, January, released via Cafe Superstar Recordings. Christoffer comes from dreamy pop projects like Remington…
William Kalmer is a Johannesburg artist who made “Graceland” as a real collaboration with Audrey Karrasch and producer Edward George King. Karrasch, a Los Angeles singer-songwriter who previously appeared on The Voice USA, shares the writing and carries the vocal. King, a South African film composer and founder of King Music, produces the track. “Graceland”…
Pat Piperni is a Montreal musician making solo piano music he writes, performs, records, and masters himself in a home studio. He points to a wide range of listening, and names Debussy and Chopin alongside modern piano composers like Ludovico Einaudi, Yiruma, and Joseph Nimoh. “Quiet Storm” comes from a specific headspace he describes as…