IN THE RUN UP TO HER DEBUT ALBUM RELEASE TRUEMENDOUS UNVEILS THE VISUALS TO ‘YOU DON’T WANNA’, ALONGSIDE A SNEAK PEEK OF SINGLE ‘Y’

As fans eagerly anticipate the release of ‘Misdiagnosis of Chyvonne Johnson’ on the 1st April via High Focus Records, TrueMendous keeps up momentum with her third single release of the year, ‘You Don’t Wanna’. Churning the energy levels sky high, TrueMendous delivers an exhilarating record showcasing her dynamic and skippy flow. In harmony with her intricate flow patterns, the music video mirrors the pace through the changing backdrops and gradients.

LISTEN TO ‘YOU DON’T WANNA’ ON ALL DIGITAL STREAMING PLATFORMS
https://highfocus.lnk.to/YouDontWanna

Her impressive dexterity as a rapper is not only distinguished through her lyrical content, but also her ability to seamlessly rap over a multitude of different sounds. ‘You Don’t Wanna’ showcases powerful articulation and control, similar to her 2021 debut ‘Cause A Scene’. However, she is also able to demonstrate a soulful conscious rapping style seen in ‘Worst Child’.

Following on from the soulful and more rhythmic method of rapping TrueMendous surprises fans with a sneak peek of ‘Y’, which is teased at the end of the ‘You Don’t Wanna’ music video. The juxtaposition between both tracks exemplifies TrueMendous as an artist and her eclectic sound. Taken straight off the forthcoming album, ‘Y’ steers away from the fast paced levels of ‘You Don’t Wanna’ and sways towards a stripped back sound. Oozing with saxophone riffs, the slow pace is also reflected in the captivating visuals.

MUSIC VIDEO: TRUEMENDOUS – ‘YOU DON’T WANNA’
https://youtu.be/CjX71kMopRc

Released via High Focus Records her 17-track upcoming album ‘Misdiagnosis of Chyvonne Johnson’ follows off the back of her successful debut project ‘HUH?’, released back in 2020. She also delivered music videos for ‘Out My Face’, ‘Sweetheart’, ‘O.T.Y.L (Part 2)’ and ‘That Don’t Mean’, which is collectively sitting on over 190.000 views. Two tracks taken off the project made it onto the FIFA 21 Soundtrack and the ‘COLD.RDY’ campaign by Adidas.

Counting down the days to the release of ‘Misdiagnosis of Chyvonne Johnson’ TrueMendous debuts ‘You Don’t Wanna’/ ‘Y’.

‘MISDIAGNOSIS OF CHYVONNE JOHNSON’ IS AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER ON ALL DIGITAL STREAMING PLATFORMS
https://highfocus.lnk.to/MOCJ

Stay up to date with TRUEMENDOUS by following her socials for news about upcoming releases & more.

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Jordi Forniés is a Spanish musician, composer, and visual artist based in Singapore. His works are characterised by a continuum between tender overarching refrains and defined sequences with increasing momentum.

Always contemplative and expansive in nature, his compositions draw on neoclassical and ambient electronic music. Forniés composes for piano, strings, and small ensembles, working with studio recordings alongside electronic elements.

His first album Loudly Quiet will be released in 2021 together with his forthcoming solo exhibition under the same name. The album is a hopeful and poignant collection of compositions for piano and strings which each focus around an individual story or transient moment.

He has often worked in collaboration with others including Bouvaque with photographer and filmmaker Han Sungpil for which Forniés’ created a piano and string quartet score. He has composed for films including Caroline Fink’s epic documentary about the receding of the largest glacier in Switzerland, Aletsch: Of Ice and Men, 2016, and made music for documentaries and video installations with Gitta Gsell. He also worked on Yan Wang Preston’s major project Mother River, which was exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2015.

A classically trained pianist since childhood, educated at Conservatorio Profesional de Música de Vila-seca in Spain, Forniés returned to music study in 2017 gaining an MFA in Music Composition and Orchestration at Chichester University in the UK. He is a member of the Composers Society of Singapore.

To check Jordi’s visual work please visit www.jordifornies.net

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It gets under your skin in an instant. It sticks into your mind without you even noticing it. It will follow you during the day and night. It will quickly become your newest obsession. Maybe it’s the summery drop, maybe it’s Ehna’s sweet tender voice, maybe it’s the simple melodic line that drives such a strong feeling of daydreaming. One thing is for sure: Ehna’s first release as a solo artist will surely make some waves this year.

EHNA
Even if she recently joined the Thrace Music family, Ehna has a long love affair with music. Started at only 7 years, when she took her first piano lessons, Ehna’s musical journey crossed paths with Monoir, who immediatly felt the true potential in her voice. From here to Oulala, Ehna’s first single, featuring 3RIN, her highschool friend, was just a step. The first one into an odyssey that would surely bring Ehna’s next hits on the lips and minds of millions of fans worldwide.

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Energising our ears with the feel-good anthem ‘Flex’, Nigerian music sensation Kizz Daniel lures us in as he serenades us with his smooth vocals and majestic melodies. The brainchild of both Kizz Daniel and DJ Coublon ‘Flex’ instantaneously lights up the mood as they command a conglomeration of sounds, effortlessly knitting together guitar riffs with bold brass instrumentation to create an uplifting sound.

Confirming the stance he took on his sophomore album – ‘No Bad Songz’, Kizz Daniel does not disappoint with ‘Flex’. An anthem for all who would rather have a good time than hold grudges or get into fistfights, Kizz Daniel asks “se kayawo fun won” which translates in pidgin to “make we spend them money”, which is the anthem of every fun-loving Nigerian and ardent party-goer. Raise one hand in the air, another on your chest or holding your drink and scream, “I just wan flex!”

With Kizz Daniel outdoing himself once again with this afrobeat delight, DJ Coublon rises to the occasion with the accompanying monstrous instrumentation which is further complimented with the brass, saxophone and trumpets. The thumping number is further strengthened by the host paying homage to Afrobeats icon and legend, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti with the line “Fela lo ni shrine”, a reference to the nightclub which Fela himself used to perform and had now become a Mecca of sorts and host performances of the biggest acts in town.

A pioneer of the modern-day landscape in the Afro-Pop hemisphere Kizz Daniel is an award-winning recording artist, performer and entertainer. The Nigerian native has accumulated millions of streams and video views and is known worldwide for his chart-topping singles such as ‘Mama’, ‘Woju’, ‘Yeba’ and ‘One Ticket’. A label boss to his own record company ‘Fly Boy Inc’ he has released two albums via his label, which includes his recently released project ‘King Of Love’. Aside from his solo musical ventures he has also collaborated with his musical contemporaries such as Davido, Wretch 32, Diplo, Tiwa Savage and Sarkodie.

A key figure in the Afrobeat scene and sailing the flag worldwide, Kizz Daniel merges the old and new school Afrobeat sound in ‘Flex’.

Stay up to date with KIZZ DANIEL by following his socials for news about upcoming releases & more.

Toronto-based artist ROCHESTER has releeased “Perseverance” off his 2020 album Dreams Don’t Have Deadlines. The music video is a photo album flipping through the highs and lows of the rapper’s life as he gets personal and reflects. It opens with a young ROCHESTER, happy and smiling as he’s being interviewed, followed by footage throughout his career including a flick with Grammy Award-Winning producer Scott Storch. As it continues, ROCHESTER raps “I wish my daughter could walk, she wasn’t stuck in a chair” paired with footage of his young daughter, who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at just 6 months old. Throughout the video, there is a message within the song to keep going no matter your situation; persevere. He closes by encouraging the viewers to follow their dreams no matter what.

ROCHESTER has accomplished a lot as a young emcee, but he ensures he has a lot more in store.

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From a set of improvisations, recorded at Morningstar Studios in Norristown, PA. The upcoming collection of piano pieces weaves together genres of ambient, jazz, and classical; and are products of meditations on points of growth and healing.

This effort follows Joe Kenney’s full band/collaborative album “Forth”, released in October 2020, and hearkens back to and expands on the vibe of Kenney’s debut album –also a solo piano album — called “Afflictions and Remedies” (2015). The idea for this newest collection started several years ago, and is the culmination of creating and workshopping “meditations” and other short improvisatory motives, which Kenney has collated on his instagram highlights. This project has been evolving concurrently with the release of Kenney’s collaborative album Forth, which released in October 2020, and is completely different in that if features vocalists and touches on genres of hip hop and funk and more, with a full band.

https://www.instagram.com/joekenneypiano/?__a=1

Joe Kenney is a recording artist, songwriter, and pianist from Philadelphia. The music on Kenney’s four albums and various collaborations span multiple genres, and are reflective of a cohesive blending of classical music theory, jazz fusion, rock, soul, and hip-hop idioms. Joe has garnered praise for both his original compositions and cover arrangements.

​His debut album, Afflictions and Remedies (2015), a solo piano album, received local airplay in Philadelphia and was also praised as a “painting of a piano at work” by Meredith Hairston, who put the album in rotation at WJSU in Jackson, MS.

In early 2016, Kenney went to work on an album of jazz and classical inspired arrangements of alternative rock and top 40 hits. Released in February 2016, the sophomore album 1.5 was recognized on broadcast radio 104.5 Philadelphia and featured on iHeartRadio. DJ Wendy Rollins characterized Joe’s cover of the Twenty One Pilots song Stressed Out as “perfection” and went on to applaud him for “re-imagining songs in a completely different format.”

Following the success of the first two solo piano albums, Joe expanded into different formats, working with a full band and honing in on a jazz fusion sound, while retaining the classically informed harmonies from his first two albums. An EP of three singles would be released in 2017, which would be the foundation and inspiration for the forthcoming 2020 album.

In March 2018, Kenney released 2.5, his third full studio album in as many years. Showcasing multiple styles and varying instrumentation, 2.5 features distinctively energized reinterpretations of eight alternative rock hits. The first half of the album features two full group instrumental tracks and two vocal arrangements, while the second half of the album features solo piano re-imaginings of four others.

In August 2018, Joe made waves with his debut orchestral performance with the Chester County Pops, where Kenney’s arrangement of his own original work Zera was premiered, alongside a performance of Chopin’s Andante Spianato et Grande Polonaise Brillante.
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Amidst an active performing and recording schedule with several bands and collaborators, Kenney’s latest undertaking has been the recording and unveiling of his fourth album, which features six highly decorated vocal artists from the Philadelphia area, on a ten-track original album that has music geared towards markets that cross multiple musical styles. The first single, Another Side (Ft. Joy Ike), released on May 8th, 2020, and was premiered by Neon Music (UK) with a glowing review. It was also featured on The Key/WXPN and selected as the Philly Local pick by highly popular radio personality Helen Leicht. The next two releases, All’s Not Lost (Ft. Laura Lizcano) and Gone (Ft Aaron Parnell Brown) were also met with spectacular reviews.

On October 23rd, the full album, Forth, was released to all platforms. It won a Bronze Medal in the Global Music Awards and has been featured on over 85 Radio Stations in U.S. and Canada.

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The first single from my forthcoming album, Enamel (out April 2021). A product of Melbourne’s long 2020 Covid-19 lockdown, written in April 2020 when a year’s worth of gigs had just been cancelled, and featuring samples recorded during lockdown-walks of a broken piano that was left to decay on a suburban street near my home.

Pre-order Enamel on Bandcamp: https://ericabramham.bandcamp.com/album/enamel

Erica Bramham – voice, double bass, guitar, broken piano, samples, production

Isaac Barter – mixing & mastering

https://ericabramham.com/

Erica Bramham is a critically acclaimed vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and composer from Melbourne, Australia. Poetic, inventive and uniquely personal, her work crosses the boundaries between pop, folk, jazz and experimental art music, showcasing her finesse as a lyricist and a captivating performance style that blends song with spoken word and improvisation.

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This song is part of an album that was written while I was going through the emotions of being diagnosed with esophageal cancer. Although sad and melancholic, The music also conveys a sense of hopefulness. I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed creating it.

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Oregon instrumentalist Joshua Carlton toured the world with post rock band This Patch of Sky for the last decade. This lead him to compose music for television and film such as ‘Brand, a Second Coming’ (a documentary film on actor Russell Brand and his battle with drug addiction), and the Vice channel. He has also been featured in the McDonald’s Ramadan commercial, as well as large brands such as Petco. Joshua’s excited to share his new solo project. “This is an album that I absolutely had to write” he says of 2021 debut ‘Moonlight Under the Black Flag’. Joshua was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in February of 2020 and found solace in purging his emotions through the music he was composing. “This music is truly my heart, and I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed creating it”.

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This song is about accepting the fate of relationships. When it comes to a end there are always losses on both sides. And even if you’re down and burned to the ground, you’ll eventually get back on your feet, you just have to follow the light. The Tame and the Wild lyrics are like polaroids: snippets of real life situations, moments or feelings, condensed to the length of a song. This is the second of a four-song project called „We Lost More Than A Battle“.

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The Tame and the Wild is a nostalgic-indie-folk band around the singer-songwriter duo Seja & Flëpp. Its music drives with vocals exploring human emotions among the natural world, sea and stars, youth and age, resiliency and love, boldness and resignation, honesty and memory. The songs urge one to touch those personal situations that are set in and often so tightly bound to nature. The Tame and the Wild see their influences in the sounds of bands such as Daughter, Angus & Julia Stone, Kodaline, Boy or Feist.

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Music Video by dom champ and Singularity Digital
Director – Dan O’Driscoll
Video/Editing – Singularity Digital
Video Effects – AGR Productions

dom champ is a rap/spoken word artist recording in Brighton, England.
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