Torso – Disco
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A hypnotic jazz alternative driven by vocals song. Torso are a three piece band from Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK. Their drums are self playing and controlled with robotic arms, but that still counts a full band member! Their songs are low-fi chill, and include melodramatic themes and self deprecating humour.
connect with artist: https://www.instagram.com/thetorsoband/
Kate Vogel – Glad It’s You
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Kate Vogel fell in love with storytelling lyrics at an early age. At 16, Vogel relocated to Nashville, Tennessee and began co-writing, performing, and recording her first record. Not unlike many women before her, Vogel’s ambitions came to an abrupt halt when she fell victim to a predator in the industry, and subsequently stopped singing for 9 years.
A decade later, on the coattails of the MeToo movement, Vogel found the strength to release her debut single, Reasons to Stay, a hopeful ballad born from her trauma and experience with suicide. Vogel confidently sings, in her steady soprano, “the beauty will outweigh the pain, we’ll all find a purpose one day.”
Leaning on musicians from both the Pop and Americana worlds, the result is a beautiful hybrid of vulnerable singer-songwriter music with strong pop sensibilities. Raw and intimate, Vogel’s music captures the metamorphosis of unimaginable pain into the beauty of hope.
Stone Fruit – Out to the Sea (Spotify)
"Out Of The Sea" inspired after "Stone Fruit" trip to Iceland. A dreamy indie electronic with laid back chill relax atmosphere and warm soft layers that trigger your need to run out in the nature and enjoy life!
Few words about Stone Fruit:
StoneFruit is a London based music duo consisted of Valentini Pavlidou and Lef Germenlis , who both write, record and produce the music.
Both having worked on different projects, this duo is the fruit of their friendship and their need to create a sound that brings together elements of soul, pop, R&B and electronic music.
Their debut EP 'Hidden in Plain Sight' was released 7th of June 2019. It combines soft downtempo electronic moments with energetic, funk & soulful ones.
Later this year they release 2 new singles, Run to the Unknown (accompanied by a short film) & Defy the Time (accompanied by a choreography video). They kicked off 2020 with the release of their latest single 'Full Disclosure' and with a gig at Sofar London. This year has more gigs in store to promote their latest singles and more new music!
Runaway – Original Song by Svea Lyon (Video)
Runaway is a song which total produced and performed from Svea Lyon speaking about of running away with your soul mate with her warm soft vocals that will tickle your ears.
Few words about Svea Lyon:
Had it not been for a man with an American flag eye patch and an acoustic guitar Svea Lyon (Suh-vay-uh) (Lee-own) may have never started singing. Mr. Woody was her first-grade music teacher, and the first person to recognize her innate talent for performing. One day in class he asked for a student to sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Since no one else raised their hand Svea broke the silence and started to sing. Mr. Woody told her she had a beautiful voice and to keep on singing.
Fast forward ten years and Svea heads Mr. Woody’s advice by singing every chance she gets. Although it has been some time since she last sang Twinkle Twinkle Little Star she continues to write about everything from the sky to clementines. She plays piano and guitar and aims to write a new song every week. Artists like Fiona Apple, Alicia Keys, Stevie Nicks, and Stevie Wonder inspire her. She lives in Los Angeles, with her little sister and mom. Aside from music Svea likes to read, watch the Office, and drink tea with cats.
Polarbearz – Because Of U (Spotify)
Polarbearz back with the song "Because of you" which could best be described as an EDM flirti with Rock... driving vocals, guitars and melody but not missing also the chill moments within.
Far above the arctic circle, in the deep woods of Lapland, music is made differently.
The Swedes Markus and Joakim, two friends from Gällivare who shared a common interest in music, formed a rock band in 2012 and ended up playing Sweden Rock Festival. In 2017 they decided to enter the world of electronic music forming Polarbearz.
Robert Connely Farr & the Rebeltone Boys – Ode to the Lonesome (Spotify)
Robert Connely Farr is a songwriter originally from Bolton, Mississippi (Charley Patton / Mississippi Sheiks) currently residing in Vancouver, Canada. Since 2017, cherished elder Mississippi bluesman Jimmy “Duck” Holmes has been mentoring Farr in the Bentonia Style of the Delta Blues, an obscure style that Holmes learned directly from Henry Stuckey, who also taught Skip James, among others.
‘Dirty South Blues’ (recorded & produced by Leeroy Stagger) was released to widespread critical acclaim in various genres including Contemporary Blues, Americana & Indie Rock. Steeped in the haunting sounds of the Bentonia Style of the Delta Blues, the album garnered over 40 reviews in various publications & spent the better part of 2018 & 2019 on Canadian and International radio charts. As a result, Farr was nominated for Songwriter of the Year & New Artist of the Year for the 2019 Maple Blues Awards. The album was recently named by Greg Vandy at Seattle's heralded KEXP as one of the Top Albums of 2019.
Farr works closely with Jimmy "Duck" Holmes’ & his independent label Blue Front Records. And when Robert is home in Mississippi, he can most likely be found pickin' & grinnin' in Bentonia, Mississippi at Duck's renound Juke Joint - The Blue Front Cafe.
Christopher Ryan – A Little Bigger (Spotify)
Christopher Ryan is a songwriter from Denver, Colorado who has always had a passion for songs that groove. "A Little Biggers" upbeat vibe merges the heartfelt lyrics and acoustic sounds Christopher is known for with his love for a funky rhythm. The idea for this song came about after an encounter with a street painter who had lost his arms below the elbows. He painted by holding the paintbrush in his mouth. The encounter inspired the idea that we are capable of living our lives A Little Bigger despite our challanges and circumstances.
The single was recorded with Grammy Award winning producer Larry Mitchell while Christopher was in residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. The song was mastered in Boulder, Colorado by Grammy Award winner David Glasser.
Pasquale Gee – Sunsets in Park (Spotify)
Sunsets in Park' tells the story of how something as simple as an old car can act as a safe haven between two people. Long nights, watching the sun go down from a parked car is something that seems so poetic and symbolic at the same time. The warm synths, hard hitting drums and personal story telling make for a genre-bending nostalgic anthem.
Nervous City Nervous Self – Yesteryears (and the gloom) (Spotify)
”And the night paints its name on the walls in your room. Like the skyline of yesteryears and the gloom”.
Nervous City Nervous Self is back with the first single since ”Anthem” (2019) which was aired on Swedish National Radio (SR).
With the new release ”Yesteryears (and the gloom)" Nervous City Nervous Self brings forth an introspective song from the past, which fittingly enough also deals with the passing of time. Singer/songwriter David Josephson wrote the song in Berlin (yester)years ago in a sense of loss and confusion following a break-up, and it portrays a bewildered but rather clownlike character adrift in a foreign land. "Climb your mountain, put on your crown. Oh you say it´s all, but – hey! – it looks like none." The song later floated back into the wellspring from where it had appeared, and it was not until the isolation of the current pandemic that the song resurfaced in the songwriter’s mind and it was swiflty recorded at home; vocals, guitar - and a big reverb.
Rett Madison – Shame Is a River (Spotify)
West Virginia-born Rett Madison evokes the strength and poise of artists like Julien Baker in her striking new single "Shame is a River." The 23-year-old Rett Madison commands attention with compelling vocals in this bare and raw performance.
The now LA-resident made her way to the city at 18 to attend university but dropped out by the time she was 20 to pursue music more seriously. Rett grew up listening to music on road trips with her mom - influenced by artists like Fleetwood Mac, Prince, Madonna, Cat Stevens, Norah Jones, Sade and the Bee Gees. With the support of her parents, she began taking piano lessons. "My first piano teacher, Carla, and her husband, Mike (who also played guitar) are like parents to me too. I spent a lot of time with them as a child taking lessons and even had a room at their house for a summer when I was six years old. I would just sit with Carla at the piano for a few hours and then run around outside at her home in West Virginia with her four German Shepherds. It was a really beautiful time," she shares.
Rett attended Interlochen Arts Academy to study songwriting from the ages of 16-18 years old. Located on a campus in the middle of a forest in northern Michigan, Rett found her passion for writing and creating. Surrounded by 500 other students all studying various disciplines of art, Interlochen completely changed her life for the better.
At around 18 or 19 years old, Rett had formed her identity as an artist and musician but still struggled with her identity as a person - it was then that she realized and accepted her queer identity. "I was raised Catholic, and grew up in a small city in West Virginia of about 15,000 people," she shares. "Although I had attended public schools in West Virginia until I was 16, I had a very bigoted and homophobic teacher my freshmen year of high school. I didn't understand my own identity yet, but I fought back on this teacher's homophobic remarks he made during class until the point I was in tears and outraged. I didn't have the vocabulary at that time to say he was being prejudiced, but I was very hurt by his words."
Rett has a way with words and sharing her life experiences through her music. "I try to be open about my queerness and those experiences in my music now, so that kids who may be living through similar experiences that I once did, won't feel as alone and will know there's better days ahead of them." Her previous releases "God Is A Woman," "Pin-Up Daddy," and "Mothers Girl" have received rave reviews and recognition from publications like Broadway World, Skope Mag, Vents Magazine and hundreds of thousands of streams on DSPs.