Continuing his fearlessly unique manner of fusing genres and tones, Erik Engelhardt further elevates his audio identity, with the unorthodox yet mighty presentation of a fast-paced and celebratory Happy Again.
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Featuring an impressively vast 127 voices from 15 different nations, Sing In Unity is a huge project but with a notably accessible, musically-minded simplicity at its core.
Seductive live jazz captures a moment in time, as Ben Freidkin delivers the extensive instrumental project Trial & Error.
Creative composer and sound artist Robert Dilemma openly indulges in self-defined guilty pleasures, for this extensive and uniquely eclectic new project The Soft Parts.
One of the most thought-out and devoted, focused indie albums of the year, presenting feelings of heartbreak, fear, awe and excitement in equal parts throughout.
Thoughtfully historical in its devotion to ancestral influences, yet also incredibly engaging, captivating and powerful, Tribo proves a breathtaking collection of unrivaled musical expressions.
Beginning with the intriguing sound of ambient layering of piano, synth, bass, Intro feels initially like a new-jazz piece, before we’re hit with a relentlessly awakening dance rhythm at just past the half-minute mark.
Organic instrumentals and cleanly-mixed, dreamy live vocals introduce the haunting yet intimate sound of songwriter and artist Downcutting Streams.
This opening piece grips the listener, entertains them, moves them, provokes them to pause for a moment and simply listen.
Sometimes the music is so beautiful that the writing process is put on hold temporarily. In the case of Ellis Hadlock Music’s latest project, that was very much the case.
“The purpose of the project is to create an ongoing, global cadence of awareness to keep this issue top of mind and spur subsequent action.”
The final track of this new playlist seems to encapsulate well the uninhibited, fearlessly honest manner of sound design that Steve has adopted.