Inspired by their self-penned initiative of ‘Harmonizing Hearts, Elevating Souls’, Lynn and Jimmy Wolling create from a shared passion for songwriting and musicianship that stirs up deeply rooted emotions. The duo travel annually to India, to expand upon their classical instrumental abilities – the tabla and the sitar – and these experiences have played a huge role in shaping the sound of their act Strings of the Heart.
Ambient
Self-penned as electronic instrumental music, the idea with Inverted was to capture a harmonic area / modal mood in contrast with its inner movement, ‘achieved through using inversions of the chordal structure’. This stylistic approach could then artistically represent the emotional state of an individual with a multi-layered humanity about their daily experience – something relatable but ultimately very personal.
Featuring unique production akin to the atmospheric trip hop of simpler times, Lucky Star follows a single to multi-layered vocal delicacy, through a near-falsetto progressive melody, as we fall further into the embrace of this other-worldly concept and mood.
Music-making racoon Trash Panda collaborates with long-time friend Andrew, to deliver an aptly-titled album of original compositions that quickly sets listeners off on an immersive and dreamy journey.
The overall creative set-up rings loud in a similarly distinct way, the music blending the familiarity of pop with the alternative freedom of an artist whose creative pathway is clearly uninhibited, and genuinely focused on feeling and intention as it pours through the airways.
David App crafts a cinematic and evocative new realm of ballad-like songwriting, with the tribal to boldly atmospheric ambiance and emotion of Certainty.
Music to instantly remove the haste and hassle of a busy season – Fuma captures the essence of calm, with the aptly-titled, ambient, dreamy, and melodically soothing Sit Down x100.
Feeling almost like an audio-cinematic ode to the freedom and embrace of a tribal festival experience, this arrangement of live-looping and production is unlike anything else you’ll hear this season. OMRA has not simply curved the lines between genres, but has broken through them entirely.
Somewhat uniting outright simplicity and fearless complexity, Plastic Triode is tyrannical treat for the ears and the mind. Highly experimental, unlike anything else you’ll delve into this season – the project is a timeless, uninhibited, provocative collection of original tracks, from a talented musician with a clear passion for exploring the unexplored as a sound-designer and performer.
Unafraid of taking full command of the audio space, Vanterra showcases his prowess as a unique and rhythmic composer for this work. The track begins with a simple back and forth from a handful of organic instruments, somewhat joyful but repetitive as the very act of mining for gold is reimagined under an intimate and enchanting light.
New music from an elusive Invadable Harmony once again presents a completely unprecedented audio realm. The White Flame allures its audience in an instant, world music tones and atmospheric whirring asserting a kind of ambient to intense presence all around you.
India-born and currently based in LA, Kiwiani presents an immersive, ethereal approach to production, which at first feels perfectly in tune with the abstract artistic implications of the accompanying image.
close is ultimately an industrial, rhythmic ode to heavy beats and fragmented production, but it also features intermittent hints of soulful vocal melody; playfully incorporated amidst a fitting and consistently distinct presentation.