Clean contemporary production with catchy hooks and programmed vocals – a familiar sound with a brightness and story-central progression that meanders from genre to genre. Lawyer and family-man Beatzler has been producing music for over 15 years, and this year, he delivers a boldly eclectic album of high-quality original songs, as the aptly-titled new project FutureBreaker.
Albums
Music made for visual media, a careful combination of cinematic, classical and playful melodies and arrangements, built out of hybrid orchestral sounds and synths. Toby Tune captures a creative edge that’s artistic and intriguing, for ELEMENTS OF SUBSTANCE.
Soaring rock soundscapes both soulful and intense – meandering guitar lines and contrastingly smooth vocals, elevating the beauty of the Azerbaijani language. Alihsan delivers a fine fusion of power-ballad depth and alternative, poetic wonder, with 12 original rock tracks, and the opening power and melody of Cesaretin var mi.
From the ambient and cinematic, to the lo-fi jazz café and smooth, soulful indie pop vibes – counterglow follow instinct and emotion, throughout the colourful highs and lows of the intimate, immersive and rather classic album echoes of self.
Organic loops of instrumentation and voice, poetic and personal ideas resounding and lingering – an ambient but largely acoustic presentation, of songs that feel both revealing and mysterious in their vague bursts of both joy and sadness. German songwriter and artist Rico Friebe releases a brand new double album, in the form of the mighty The Desire Path / The Open Glade.
Great songs, genuine vocals, an artistic identity that’s refreshingly real – Kērd DaiKur is putting in the work and passion alike, to release a full-length debut album that already feels a little like a greatest hits collection for the independent creative.
Lush riffs and dreamy good vibes meet with a kind of energising folk-rock energy and brightness that’s instantly infectious. Belgian creative Hidden Shores blends indie pop, shoegaze and anthemic passion, with the limitless creative tools of AI, for the intoxicating album Mighty Oak.
Less than two weeks until the big day, Christmas is approaching at pace, and here we have the third instalment of One World One Christmas – just in time to light up the celebrations, as we get everything ready for December 25th.
Award-winning cinematic and classical composer and pianist Antonija Pacek turns her passion and expression towards the Christmas classics this season, offering a refreshingly warm, intimate and honest instrumental album, perfectly titled Heartwarming Christmas Compilation.
The album title is on point, the comfort of melody and acceptance, crafted under a blanket of responsibility and grown-up references that are absolutely not for the younger listeners. PJ Pajamas strikes a fine balance, and these songs are a pleasure to dive into, time and time again.
Creative dynamic blending lifelong influences and the crucial contrast of delicacy and intense depth. Scribe Shift has crafted a cinematic, all-consuming original project, uniting modern production tools with limitless theatrical power and distortion. We’re somewhere between the likes of metal and dream-pop, and this opposites attack aura resounds throughout the opening track Abandonment. An elusive … Continued
Creative originality intrigues and connects, captivates in a refreshing way – a project of stories both mysterious and poetic. Liz Davinci captures an air of abstract contemplation, with the brand new album Materia Prima.