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Ryoka Hagiwara comes at solo piano from a film composer’s angle. Born in Tokyo, raised in London and now busy scoring shorts and animation, she writes in pictures as much as in notes. “In A Haze,” recorded back near her childhood home and tied to a new strand of work about memory and identity, feels…
Last Relapse are back after more than a decade away, picking up songs that never really left their heads. The Atlanta band always sat in that space where indie rock feels personal but still big enough to fill a room, and this EP is them finally finishing ideas they carried for years. “Everyone Dances Outside…
Kimi Nickerson moves between studio, stage, and sound desk. As a singer and producer, and as an Offie-nominated theatre sound designer and co-founder of KG Records, she treats songs like scenes: built around a central voice, then lit from every side with detail. Her past singles have already picked up support from BBC Introducing and…
Richard Green has a habit of making classical compositions feel immediate. Based between Milan and London, he’s spent the last few years building a neoclassical trilogy – composed at home, recorded in Italy, and performed by some of the country’s best players. “A Story,” featuring Irene Veneziano on piano and Archimia on strings, is the…
Rome’s Solo Artist Turns a Memory into Music That Speaks Without Words There’s a kind of restraint in AfterGlow Bridge that’s rare. The single from Indomitus Pax, a solo composer and producer based in Rome, doesn’t build with bombast or collapse into cliche. Instead, it unfolds gently, like someone turning over a memory in their…