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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…
Adam Wedd is a London songwriter working in acoustic folk and country, writing in a direct, story-first mode. For this single he brought in Georgina Leach for the string arrangements and performance, with Marek Deml handling guitar and vocal engineering, Ken Abel mixing, and Tom Hall mastering. Wedd has name-checked Tom Waits, Ben Folds, and…
Rellyo Bambini is an artist from Knoxville, Tennessee, building a full album around identity, technology, and what “humanity” looks like in a world obsessed with replication. The title, Cloned & Upgraded, Insert Soul Here (Rebirth Edition), lays the concept out in plain language: people get copied, upgraded, replaced, and the emotional cost still shows up…
Ivelisse del Carmen is a Puerto Rican songwriter and trained singer based in London. She frames “Illusion” through bolero and jazz, with Sylvia Rexach named as a lyrical reference point and Billie Holiday named as a vocal touchstone. She also documents process and identity on her Substack, Letters in Melody, and is releasing the track…
Patti Zlaket is a Tucson, Arizona songwriter and pianist with a long résumé outside the usual album cycle. She started playing piano young, wrote songs as a teenager, studied theatre at USC, and recorded early work in Los Angeles before time in Nashville and a return to Southern California. She toured the U.S. and U.K.,…
A’shon Galaxy is an R&B and soul songwriter from Vallejo, California, releasing his own music and building toward a larger project. “More Than Only Friends” is written from the angle of someone stuck in a friendship that will not move forward, pushing for a deeper connection. The track opens with short, Rhodes-style chord stabs. The…
Two-time Grammy–winning composer Carla Patullo is in the rare position of watching the same record open up twice. Last year Nomadica introduced itself as a dense, grief-struck collage for strings, choir, and voice, written in memory of her mother. Shortly after it picked up the Grammy for Best New Age, Ambient, or Chant Album, she…
Dream Birds leans into quiet storytelling from the first line. Released under the Bog Witch name out of Decatur, Georgia, it stays close and small on purpose: voice up front, gentle backing, and a scene you can picture as it unfolds. The track opens with that intimate vocal, almost like someone talking you through a…