French artist DJ ARTO has released his new single “Rìo Güeppi” a collaboration with fellow DJ Stéphane Salerno.
DJ ARTO is known for fusing tribal chants, African guitars with high-impact percussive drops.
While Italian native Stéphane Salerno describes his music as “Vinyl soul meets digital groove” and includes elements of funk, deep house and Afro House music in his works.
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Canadian singer-songwriter Fançois Marius has released a new single “New York”
In his usual style, the track is a fusion of Latin pop, reggae and rock influences.
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Zion, a Nigerian artist based in Finland, has released his debut single “Are You On That?” a blend of AfroRnB and chill rap.
On the song he tells the story of being stood up by a girl, but they talk things through later and actually get together.
The track combines smooth AfroRnB melodies with laid-back rap flows, reflecting both his Nigerian roots and the influence of his life in Finland.
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American artist and Emmy Award winner, Dustin O’Halloran has released a new single entitled “Red”
An improvised piano piece recorded in a single take in his Reykjavík studio, it’s the second of three tracks that will form The Chromatic Sessions EP.
“Red” is a partner piece to Gold — released in July — with a final chromatic track called “Blue” set to follow.
The theme of colours emerged organically during the process of writing and recording. “It wasn’t something pre-planned,” says Dustin, who has also been nominated for an Academy Award. “I was improvising on the piano every day, and I realised I was always thinking about colours as I wrote. When you have the mic set up and you’re recording, it puts you into deep focus. There’s something about that red light being on that really pulls you into the moment.”
O’Halloran has long experienced synaesthesia — a mingling of the senses that may sound familiar to many. It can be something as simple as a taste snapping us back to a place we’ve been, a familiar scent triggering a powerful emotional flashback, or — in Dustin’s case — a certain sound evoking the feeling of a colour.
“I believe that people are more synesthetic than they realise,” he says. “It’s something that you can tune into. All sensations are ultimately translated in the brain — and I think you can learn to connect different parts of those sensations together.”
Such connections are a theme that runs through The Chromatic Sessions — including the connection between Dustin and his audience. All of the Chromatic singles come with downloadable sheet music when bought on Bandcamp, allowing listeners to play the music themselves.
It’s a gesture born of O’Halloran’s wish to forge a closer relationship with his listeners.
“Releasing music digitally feels so distant and disconnected,” he says. “And I think we’re all looking for connection. When people get involved in playing the music, it becomes part of them in a different way. It becomes communal. It becomes theirs.”
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Canadian singer-songwriter Fançois Marius has released a new single “Midnight in Paris ”
It’s a ballad with Latin pop, reggae , blues and folk music influences.
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