Andrea Niane – White Liar (Spotify)
White Liar is the first single of Andrea Niane's debut EP "Nighttime Stories". The song is written by Niane and produced by Tiger. The EP is an almost all-female project. Except for a few guitar-fills on one song (of course one guy always manages to sneak in somehow!), everyone from producer, engineers, songwriters and cover-artists are women.
Gefjun – The Giving One (Spotify)
Gefjun is a Goddess in nordic mythologic, linked to fertility and creativity, and its name seems to mean "The Giving One". In the myth, she is the creator of the island of Sjælland, where Copenhagen was afterwards built. As well as her, this musical project wants to be fertile and creative, and carry the listener in a realm of mythology and otherworldly experiences.
NORDIK SONAR – Fiction No Science (Spotify)
The duo NORDIK SONAR have their base in Stockholm Sweden and consists of Linus Erlandsson and Benjamin Trossö. The band was created in 2014 when the two met, found a common interest in retro pop music and started to write and produce together.
”When we create music we work like sonars searching the highs and lows for co-existing hearts and components in the worlds great machinery, always true to our heritage which stretches far beyond any color and dimension."
After their debut EP Lynx Lynx from 2016, followed by a few singles
(”Dancing” & ”Machine”) which had great success in Germany and Turkey they started off their 2019 strong with the two singles ”So High” and the heartbreak anthem ”Persuasion” as a radio edit . With a promise of an upcoming EP the band continued working on the rest of the songs. Now, almost a year after the release of ” So High” they tease the EP release with the single ”FICTION NO SCIENCE”. A mid-tempo retro track about the reflections you face in a long distance relationship, how we fill the gap with fictions of thoughts and situations that we tend to start to believe.
”Fiction No Science” is written/produced by NORDIK SONAR, mixed by Karl Lund and mastered by Johannes T. Lindsmyr.
Salt Lake Electric Ensemble – The Wayfaring Drones of Science (Spotify)
This music was commissioned by the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company. This particular piece was used to accompany a dance set in space, where the dancers were conducting a space walk. The mood is serene and blissed out.
Jofre – Not Anymore (Spotify)
First song from EP Interludes II with strong aim at guitar riff building up through whole track. Energic and atmospheric mood
Methyl Lily – Black Willow (Spotify)
A pleasant ambient tune mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri, who said this was his favorite track on my new album. The aesthetic was "like cat nip" to him.
The White Light Project – I Listen to the Wind (Spotify)
The white light project is an ambient side project from artist Daniel Vickers. This is music specifically for relaxation, meditation, reflection, background ambience and just plain chilling out. 'I listen to the wind' is a track created by using looping guitar tones, all mixed with a heavy dose of reverb. Take it easy and hope you enjoy!
Alyas – Beyond the Clouds (Spotify)
This is the track Alyas always wanted to do, as his biggest inspiration in music is "Adam Young" and always wanted to do a track that reminds his music, and as it says "I think this song reminds that".
Its a happy track with a lot of hiatus going on and a sweet guitar delay on top, and then some choir vocals for the last chorus.
Steve Reich, Erik Hall – Pulses (Spotify)
For his version of Music for 18 Musicians (Steve Reich), Erik Hall performed every part himself, using instruments he had on hand. He recorded one section a day, one layer at a time in live, single takes, painstakingly cobbling together a loving interpretation of Reich’s 1976 masterpiece of minimalism. It marks only the second time an artist has tried tackling the seminal piece by his or herself.
Xylophones from the original score became muted pianos, violin became electric guitar, and the pulsing rasp of the bass clarinet was constructed on the Moog synthesizer. Room mics captured the air around each instrument. “Of course my version would be fundamentally different,” he explains, “but I didn’t want the differences to be distracting or gimmicky. I wanted it to be true to the timbre and spirit of the original recording,”
In’R’Voice – What Is All This For (Spotify)
In early 80's in Soviet Russia, all foreign music was out of law. But the french melodic synthwave such as a band Space somehow reached the hearts of that period communist Russian government officials and become one of the very few foreign artists that performed at the largest concert halls in Moscow. Denny Kay aka In'RVoice was just 7 years old when he saw Space in that concert. The new album of In'R'Voice is deeply inspired by the emotions that Space Band filled his young heart.