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Nikita Noebel records under the name Walilamdzi, a project rooted in Berlin but drawn to landscapes that stretch far beyond the city. The music sits in that space between instrumental songwriting and film score: guitar-driven, slow-burning, shaped as much by atmosphere as by melody. Noebel calls each set of songs a “chapter,” small arcs that…
Jasmine Gardosi, Dan Whitehouse, and Ryan Pinson come from different corners of the UK music world. Gardosi is best known as a slam champion and former Birmingham Poet Laureate, a performer who merges spoken word, beatboxing, and movement into something closer to theater than page poetry. Whitehouse has built a reputation as a songwriter and…
AUNCE, the project of Anna Edith Daly Edgington, is a London-based artist with roots in Birmingham and Stoke-on-Trent. After earning a PhD in Music Production in New Zealand, she returned to the UK to develop a sound that mixes electronics with voice in ways that blur song form and sound art. Her work has appeared…
Lussilia, the Venezuelan-Canadian singer-songwriter now based in Vancouver, has been steadily carving out her space by weaving Latin pop with Venezuelan folk and a mix of global textures. Her songs, often sung across three languages, push for connection across identities. Earlier this year she released her debut EP ten four sixty one, a nod to…
Swamp Music Players are a collective out of Victoria, Canada, who have spent the past few years carving a niche in swamp rock and cosmic Americana. Their music often leans on collaboration, and the new EP Hear It on CN2 continues that approach with contributions from Virginia songwriter Joseph Gearheart and Hollywood vocalist Sugar Parks….
Dark City Kings have been shaping their sound in a weathered homestead outside Black Mountain, North Carolina. The six-piece: Colleen Rose, Merlin Armstrong, Kyrie Antoinette, Bayla Ostrich, Craig Rumney, and JP Kennedy, pull from bands like The Waterboys, Blondie, and The Cure, but the results don’t feel secondhand. They’ve built something that leans on new…
Ferdinand Rennie recorded Someone to Remember Me in 2010. Fifteen years later, he returns to it with the same producer, Alan Vukelic, and no major structural changes. The song, written by Wayne Hector and Steve Robson, still plays as a widescreen ballad: slow tempo, orchestral backing, and a vocal pushed to the front. The difference…
Dez Rocket has spent years in alt-synth rock, stacking sounds and dialing in details. Akashic Walker cuts most of that out. It’s a quiet track built on a few choices: soft guitar, muted keys, steady rhythm, and a vocal that stays close. It’s his first love song, and you can tell. The line “So I…
The first thing you notice with A Different Kind is how familiar it sounds – not in a recycled way, but in how it settles in instantly, like a song you forgot you already knew. It’s been five years since Social Gravy released the EP, and the reissue lands at the right time. “Happening Now”…
Karen Salicath Jamali didn’t set out to become a composer. The piano entered her life after a head injury in 2012, when she started hearing music in dreams and decided to follow it. She had never played before. By 2015, she was recording what she heard. Now there are eight albums and thousands of pieces….