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Ivelisse Del Carmen’s “Before I’m Done” opens with organ-like pads giving the song a warm, suspended floor. The first feeling is stillness, but not safety. Her vocal enters slowly, emotional and exposed, with the kind of force that does not need volume right away. It sounds like someone returning to a room they once had…
HJ Soul’s “Unbreakable” opens with piano that feels almost storybook at first, soft enough to suggest fantasy, but weighted enough to keep the song from floating away. The first seconds give the track a cinematic shape before the vocal even appears. Then a brass-like line comes in with a moody jazz-soul color, and the song…
Lana Crow is a British singer-songwriter who was born in Kazakhstan and classically trained on piano from early childhood. She’s written about significant health challenges and a turbulent upbringing, plus a long break from music before getting back into writing after moving to the Spanish countryside. In Spirit is her third album, a seven-track set…
Jex Ayla is a Swiss-based singer-songwriter linking with German producer Michel Jaensch on “Battlefront,” a self-released single built on dark electronic pop with cinematic weight. The vocal was recorded at Heaven Recording Studio in Massagno, with mixing and mastering handled by Roberto Colombo. Ayla frames the writing as a breakup aftermath piece split between two…
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”…
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…
OLI is a London-based artist who grew up between New Jersey and the UK. Her music moves between pop and film-score territory, built from piano, strings, and quiet emotion. She’s performed at festivals like Isle of Wight, but this debut album is where her sound fully takes shape. The record opens with soft piano and…
Frank Joshua is a London-based songwriter who has been steadily releasing singles over the past few years. Days Like These, recorded between Exeter and London, continues that streak with a track built on simplicity and focus. A four-on-the-floor kick gives the song its pulse, keeping it in forward motion. Guitar lines hover quietly in the…