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Jordi Forniés – A Step Closer

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“The fine art of Solo Piano is gently offered from Jordi Fornies. The artist shares thoughts of personal bliss via etherial notes, while connecting the elusive with the divine. “A step Closer” can affect even the most assertive listener.”

-Nagamag.com

Finding the person you’re meant to be with is one of the most beautiful things in life. And when you are finally there, it feels like a step closer to heaven.

https://jordifornies.bandcamp.com/releases

Skylark – Run Away

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“Made up of vintage electronics, the recent release of "Skylark" hits directly in the head. Passionate vocals are setting fire and creating the most addictive mood. It's almost impossible to resist in feelings of obsession and the singer already knows it well!”

-Nagamag.com

The new single by Skylark is out may 13, 2022. It's an electronic poptune with a romantic vibe and lyrics. It's about being madly in love and finding it impossible to take it slow, instead just wanting to run away with the feeling.

https://www.instagram.com/skylarksweden/

Lupe Fiasco – AUTOBOTO

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“Lupe brings another heavy hitter to his list of bangers. With his characteristic sound and lyrical flow he stays on top of the game with ease. Doing his thing without trying to fit the trends he sets the vibe in his own way. ”

-Nagamag.com

Today, GRAMMY-winning rapper Lupe Fiasco announces his next album

DRILL MUSIC IN ZION, out June 24th via 1st & 15th / Thirty Tigers. The announcement comes with the release of the first single from the album “AUTOBOTO”.

Twisting and contorting the English language to fit the meter and his every whim, Lupe Fiasco uses his superb lyrical skill to process the changing world in which he lives. Drawing connections between the concrete and spiritual in his hometown of Chicago, Lupe announces DRILL MUSIC IN ZION, his next album. The product of a burst of thoughtful spontaneity, Lupe created the new album over a short period, diving into a folder of beats sent by his longtime producer Soundtrakk and emerging with a fully-realized album in just three days. “Soundtrakk is the swordmaker, I’m the samurai,” says Lupe. “He’s the mechanic, and I’m the driver.” Armed with Soundtrakk’s soulful sounds, Lupe creates a focused statement that reflects on the past and paves a way forward, preaching strength through mindfulness and self-sustaining community.

DRILL MUSIC IN ZION arrives on June 24th via 1st & 15th/Thirty Tigers. Pre-order [Here]

Along with the announcement of the album, Lupe shares “AUTOBOTO,” the first DMIZ single. Mischievous, playful, and deceptively dense, “AUTOBOTO” gets its power from Soundtrakk’s creeping keys and modal guitar melodies and Lupe’s mantra-like hook. The rapper weaves meticulous metaphors and wry words of wisdom, proclaiming his fierce independence even as he decries the uselessness of individual rebellion in the face of rising tides of corruption and industry: “Why buy a tub when the Bayou a flood/Better buy you a sub/How you gon survive in the club, you gon kayak it, cuz, when they rise up above/And the waves come and push and the tidal’s a shove/What’s an infrared dot to a whole dot gov.” At the end of the song, Lupe cedes the mic to Nayirah, who slows down Lupe’s hook to a languid tempo and allows the defiant message to marinate.

His first new album since 2018’s DROGAS WAVE, DRILL MUSIC IN ZION marks the start of another chapter in Lupe’s illustrious career. The proud Chicago native has already had a busy 2022, marked with sold out shows, new music, and much more. Lupe recently closed out his “Food & Liquor Tour,” a series of performances in which he plays his debut album in full. He paid tribute to his hometown in the reflective, self-produced “100 Chicagos,” and dug into the archives to share “Hustlaz,” a previously-unreleased song originally recorded before the release of the now-classic debut album Food & Liquor. Beyond music, Lupe continues to focus on the community organizations he founded, including We Are M.U.R.A.L, The Neighborhood Start-Up Fund, Society of Spoken Art, and his cross-cultural content venture, Studio SV.

Lupe recently launched his “LFT” program, a new NFT program that allows fans to get closer than ever to Lupe. Unlike many NFTs, which solely exist in the digital space, the “LFT” program offers token-holders an array of online and offline benefits. The benefits start with a generative art profile pic–each LFT holder gets a unique digital artwork inspired by Lupe’s album Lupe Fiasco’s The Cool, which celebrates its 15th birthday this year.

With DRILL MUSIC IN ZION on deck, an invigorated Lupe Fiasco seeks to prove once again that few rappers in history can rhyme like him. Stay tuned for much more from the legendary artist in the coming weeks.

Pre-order DRILL MUSIC IN ZION: https://orcd.co/dmiz

Buy/Stream “AUTOBOTO” ft. Nayirah: https://orcd.co/autoboto

Check out full details about “LFT”: https://lft.lupefiasco.com/

http://instagram.com/lupefiasco

JoyCut – NOVEMBRE13_

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“"JoyCut" has managed to capture the power of peace and silence in a track starting simply in order to reach a peak of deep Cinematic character towards the finale. Classic instrumental samples are smoothly merged with wide electronic pads and the result didn't left us unaffected.”

-Nagamag.com

Today May 20th, Italian sonic innovators JoyCut share new single ‘NOVEMBRE13_’ alongside two visual narrations, excerpts from The New York Times’ Op-Doc ‘Taller Than The Tree’ By Academy Award-winning director Megan Mylan. Watch/Stream ‘NOVEMBRE13_’ Here. ‘NOVEMBRE13_’ is taken from out JoyCut upcoming new album ‘TheBluWave [TimesWhenSilenceIsAPoem - TheIceHasMelted - AndBleedingGlaciersFormOurTears]_’ Out Digitally June 5, Vinyl Release Due August 12 - via PillowCase - 伊達 直 / Kartel Music Group

https://ffm.to/thebluwave_

https://ffm.to/novembre13_

https://earthpercent.bandcamp.com/

‘NOVEMBRE13_ is an expansive instrumental composition, a monumental cut in which JoyCut create a textured and detailed soundscape, moving from a soft and gentle sound to a cinematic grandeur density. Placing themselves between the experimental post-rock of Sigur Rós and Mogwai, the grand ambient landscapes of Erased Tapes’ A Winged Victory For The Sullen and the sparing use of dynamic range of Stars Of The Lid, JoyCut move across contemporary explorative sounds capable to release a glorious spike of dopamine in the brain.

The upcoming album, ‘TheBluWave [TimesWhenSilenceIsAPoem - TheIceHasMelted - AndBleedingGlaciersFormOurTears]_’, is in the band’s own words “dedicated to those who love to linger on the ways of introversion. Explorations dedicated to the experience of abstraction, disorientation, travel, return”. In their quest to highlight these experiences JoyCut came across the short documentary ‘Taller Than The Tree’ By Academy Award-winning director Megan Mylan, which profiles one middle-aged Japanese man stuck in a crisis of care. Masami Hayata is a Tokyo man delicately balancing his roles as advertising executive, father, husband and devoted son to his ailing mother. Japanese men haven't traditionally been caregivers, but for Masami Hayata, it's a crucial part of raising his family.

Using two excerpts from the movie, JoyCut present their news single ‘NOVEMBRE13_’ as the score to this extraordinary story, which invites us to reflect on contemporary Japanese culture, and the demographic and societal changes that have created a crisis of caregiving in a very competitive society. Watch NOVEMBRE13 | MASAMI_Here and NOVEMBRE13 | MASAMI&SHION_ Here. “With NOVEMBER13_’s visual narration we wanted to evoke the spirit of longevity, slowness, fragility, silence, ethereal detachment of the transient substratum of earthly events. There are themes our upcoming new THEBLUWAVE is dedicated to and with the two different visual narratives are offered as another critical food for thought,” says the band.

JoyCut announced the album with the single ‘ThePlasticWhale_’ available as an exclusive through Brian Eno’s EarthPercent Bandcamp compilation for World Earth Day - Download ‘ThePlasticWhale_’ On Bandcamp. On this subject JoyCut have always been one step ahead. Since the beginning, environmental issues have been a central part of the band’s philosophy, made evident by active collaborations with 350.org, Italian Climate Network and the ‘NU-Clear-Sound’ artistic direction, a festival dedicated to green issues. The new album’s packaging perfectly reflects this attitude; “we have entirely made it as green as possible,” they say.

JoyCut Bio

JoyCut are Italy's underground music pioneers, stalwarts of the DIY underground music scene, who have been making mesmerising, mostly instrumental music for decades, connecting with audiences worldwide, through live performances across three continents, 74 countries and 216 cities. The last album, ‘PiecesOfUsWereLeftOnTheGround’ took the band to new heights, with a never-ending tour of over 100% dates across North America, Asia and Europe. With the digital mantra #JoyCutNeverStops, the band touched more than 60 countries, culminating in a Top 5 European Talent Exchange Programme [ETEP] position. Following a successful TEDx performance in Verona and inspired by their recent vivid travels to the East, JoyCut played a sold-out Venice Biennale show debuting their six-act “Opera” ‘K O M O R E B I’, a soundtrack tribute to Japan: a combination of their dramatic music with visual art chapters that created a world to get lost in. JoyCut have brought their haunting sonic tapestries to Robert Smith’s Meltdown Festival.

https://ffm.to/thebluwave_

https://ffm.to/novembre13_

https://earthpercent.bandcamp.com/

Onyda – Queen of Duality

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“The “Queen of Duality” takes us deeper into the labyrinth of her mind. Its building motion erects the fortress of sound as it climbs ever so higher. Angelic and dark all in one. We enjoyed the trip this took us on very much. ”

-Nagamag.com

Onyda has released their new 5-track EP, ‘Queen of Duality’. The new EP, backed by veteran producer Ben Hillier (Blur, Doves, Elbow) tells Onyda’s story as a young person reflecting on various stages in their life. The ‘Queen of Duality’ EP lands with Onyda’s latest single from the project of the same name.

The EP is inspired by Onyda’s own stories of emerging from personal struggles, discovering inner strength as well as being triumphant in embracing the chaos in being truly themselves. ‘Queen of Duality’ exemplifies the complexity and deep- thinking nature of Onyda’s creativity and art. It explores beneath the surface of moments of personal adversity in order to discover beauty and to find relief. Sonically, a gorgeous duality is created throughout the EP with a nonchalant swagger across the production, creating a poignant sparsity which also finds a richness in evoking cinematic soundscapes.

The EP arrives with Onyda’s latest single of the same name which is released with a black and white video depicting scenes from Onyda’s hometown of Stoke and sees them laying bare their vulnerabilities.

Speaking on the concept of their new EP, Onyda said, "My therapist called me the ‘Queen of Duality’ in a session we had a few years ago and it stuck with me. Nothing is black and white, there’s never just one simple answer to a question and I’m always fighting between inner chaos and inner peace. I’m an existential thinker. This EP is about that internal struggle and what that has meant for my life as a young, queer person just trying to get stable. I’m in a much better place now and this body of work is a clear reflection of how far I’ve come! It’s very personal but there’s a power that comes with being so comfortable in your vulnerabilities and being able to share that, I hope listeners can follow the story and take something from it that might help them with their own lives.”

Inspired by their home town of Stoke which includes post-industrial concrete expanses, Onyda (real name Shae Rhiannon) has descended like a dystopian cowboy clad in jewel-hued velvet, embracing the queerness of life through an acid-soaked lens. An obsessive creator, Onyda works with music, visuals, film, fashion and artwork, and draws upon a wide range of influences from the beats of Tyler the Creator to the songs of Peggy Lee and Tame Impala whilst being visually inspired by scenes of Boogie Nights as well as The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

In the run up to the release of their new EP, Queen of Duality, Onyda received radio support from 6 Music, Radio 1 and 1Xtra, while their recent single ‘Like A Dog’ was added to Vevo’s Emerging Artist Playlist and chosen by BBC Introducing as their ‘Single Of The Week and ‘I Want A War’ has had support from Nemone at 6 Music. A purveyor of enticing alt-pop, Onyda is a truly unique talent and an exciting name to watch for 2022.

https://onydamusic.bandcamp.com/

dead people – Life Is Good

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“Walking through a world of devastation, “dead people” overcome their melancholic mood to conclude that life is good. An optimistic single based on the 80’s familiar synth style, feathery vocals and its ghostly clip images.”

-Nagamag.com

Following their latest release “Stay Dead”, Dead People released their fourth single “Life is good” on May 20th. Dead People’s previous release was the result of a successful collaboration with Netflix for the movie “Black Crab”. The song “Stay Dead” was the lead single of the soundtrack, amassing almost 65K Shazams and 314.2K streams worldwide across all platforms. The new single “Life Is Good” is a take on a more upbeat angle, where their inspiration from 80’s pop synth shines through – blending well with Dead People’s well known melancholic tonality.

https://www.thisisdeadpeople.com/

Marco V & Vision 20/20 – FE/AR

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“"Marco V" shakes the dancefloor with his supersonic frequencies and nobody can resist those waves. A defeaning Techno kick is merged with a dynamic synth lead riff and your unique Trance sound is born. Fast, crazy and surely addictive for all.”

-Nagamag.com

The ‘FE/AR’ factor is real with this one when master arena manipulator Marco V starts winding up another one of his legendary tech-programmed bangers. The urge is there to blast the place into tiny pieces; however, once he’s fired a synth riff the size of a super collider into the night, the track takes on a different, melodious, more optimistic tone for trance devotees to latch onto. Absolutely scintillating when his chord changes become a sign of peace and love, it’s Marco V at his absolute best.

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