Austrian band Invara Velis have unveiled their latest album Sonara Victoria, which artfully combines medieval mysticism, AI and modern technology to create a unique sonic experience.
The project is characterized by atmospheric melodies, a mystical atmosphere and vocals in a specially designed artistic language.
Led by multidisciplinary artist and designer Andre Hammer who brings years of in graphic design, programming and music to the table.
“I wanted to create music that isn’t just heard, but deeply felt—a world to escape into, but also one that helps us come back to ourselves, explains Andre Hammer.
Produced by frequent collaborator, JPRiZM, the album delves into the core of the human experience, touching on themes of love, community, and self-discovery.
The word “enyi” means “friend” in the Igbo language of Nigeria. The Nigerian-American Echezona (Onwuama) is a multi-lingual singer, rapper, and songwriter who grew up in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston.
Raised by Nigerian immigrant parents, Echezona is a Son of Africa and a Son of America. His artistry reflects his multicultural exposures and is a fusion of afrofusion, R&B, soul, hip hop, and afrobeat. Fluent in lgbo (the native language of his parents), Echezona is a living embodiment of a blend of cultural influences. When growing up, Nigerian music played in his home while hip hop was his influence in the inner-city streets.
Echezona explains: “These 9 records come straight from the heart. They were written to feel like a friend sitting next to you, sharing stories of raw honesty and openness. Through these songs, we wanted to celebrate the strength and beauty of the everywoman, embrace the richness of African culture, and spark a sense of togetherness.
Echezona further explains the meaning behind “Flaws” as an example. “Flaws” is a testament to overcoming defeats and failures and accepting that no one can expect perfection, even oneself. Personally, I remember feeling horrible after flunking a driving test one day but after I got over the disappointment, I tried again and passed. That experience inspired me to write “Flaws”. We all have been there with something; all have had to face a shortcoming or some adversity. When we’re going through something like that, it can be tough. But eventually we need to uplift ourselves, and at times we all need to be uplifted by another. I just want to see everyone win at whatever they’re pursuing.”
Producer/collaborator JPRiZM elaborates about Ényì: “At their core, these records carry themes of love, community, and making a difference in each other’s lives. It’s about communicating with and feeling for one another. Ényì speaks to the joys and the challenges we face in life. Several years in the making, we’ve been creating and storing many songs in the vault. We just felt it was the right time now to release to the world what we’ve been creating. We’re pleased with the spectrum of music and storytelling that this album represents. There’s music to be enjoyed by everyone.”
Ghanaian singer and songwriter Sofie, has released a new project, Coke Sessions LA, an EP that captures the raw essence of her sound in its most authentic form. The live-recorded EP features fan-favorite originals and a surprise cover, all delivered with electric energy and soul-stirring artistry.
Coke Studio Sessions LAshowcases the soul of Afro fusion across four electrifying tracks: “SUV (Live),” “Loading (Live)”, “Party Pooper (Live)”, and “Bruises off the Peach (Live cover).”
Backed by a tight live setup, drums, bass, electric guitar, and keyboard. Each performance brings a fresh energy to the music, blending groove driven instrumentation with heartfelt storytelling.
The EP weaves through high-energy rhythms and more introspective moments, offering listeners a front-row experience of Sofie’s sonic journey.
From high- energy moments in “SUV” (Live) to more reflective tones in “Bruises off the Peach,” Coke Studio Sessions LA captures the spontaneity and emotion of a live performance while staying true to the artist’s distinctive sound. It’s a stripped yet full-bodied experience that bridges raw feeling with refined musicality.
The performance is elevated by a dynamic live band, featuring Shane Njoloma on keyboard, Mahima Joshi on guitar, Shareef Addo on bass, and Brandon Stennett on drums.
Sofie’s powerful vocals and storytelling shine through in this stripped-down setting, proving once again her ability to blend groove-driven instrumentation with emotional depth. The EP reflects the evolution of an artist firmly grounded in her identity and craft. Engineered by Joseph Sestito, mixed by Ramiro Fernandez-Seoane, and mastered by Zach Pereyra, the EP balances raw performance with polished audio quality; a testament to the strength of live musicianship and the enduring power of storytelling.
This release follows a consistent stream of music from Sofie, whose discography includes a mixtape, three EPs, and several singles. Her most recent release, “SUV (Live),” dropped in April 2025 and set the stage for this powerful collection of performances.
With Coke Studio Sessions LA, Sofie doesn’t just perform but she invites us into her world, track by track, beat by beat, word by word. This EP is not just a listening experience; it’s a reminder of what live music can and should feel like.
Afrobeats artist Adebayo Adiamo, popularly known as 3A’s, has released a new album titled “Honey Baby.”
This album features four tracks that showcase Adebayo’s diverse musical talents and cultural influences.
The first one, “My African Queen,” like 2 Baba’s 2004 hit of the same name, celebrates the beauty and richness of African culture, paying tribute to the inspirational women who embody its essence.
The second track, “Honey Baby,” highlights Adebayo’s ability to sing fluently in three languages: English, Spanish, and his native tongue.
This linguistic versatility stems from his ten years of experience living and studying in Spain, where he earned two master’s degrees in Business Innovation and Technology Management, as well as Tourism Management from the esteemed University of Girona.
During his time in Spain, Adebayo seamlessly blended his academic pursuits with his passion for music.
In 2010, he was accepted into a PhD program in Law and Tourism Management, during which he collaborated with the Research Group at European Manufacturing Spain and published a scholarly article. This academic journey and professional experience have profoundly shaped his artistry and approach to music.
The title track, “Koboko,” is the third track, serves as a poignant anthem that addresses the alarming trend of ignorance permeating various communities. It highlights the disturbing belief that taking the life of another human being is a pathway to financial gain. With powerful lyrics and a captivating melody, “Koboko” aims to spark conversations about morality, empathy, and the dire consequences of such misguided beliefs.
The fourth track on the album provides an intimate glimpse into Adebayo’s life experiences.
Titled [Destiny], it narrates the personal struggle between familial expectations and the pursuit of passion. Adebayo reflects on his mother’s dream for them to complete a PhD program, ultimately choosing to devote his life to music instead. This choice, perceived as a waste of time by some, reveals the artist’s dedication to his music and the importance of following one’s own path.
“I wanted to create an album that not only reflects my personal journey but also connects with listeners on multiple levels,” said Adebayo Adiamo. “Each song tells a story, and I aimed to incorporate different cultural elements and languages to reach a broader audience.”
Listen to “Honey Baby”
With “Honey Baby,” Adebayo Adiamo invites fans to explore his musical landscape, filled with vibrant melodies and heartfelt lyrics. The album is now available on all major digital platforms, allowing music lovers everywhere to enjoy the unique fusion of sounds and stories.
“JOY (As an Act of Resistance)’ is a sunny trip-hop at its finest: warm, uplifting, and defiant. It’s a song about resilience — coming in from the cold, finding shelter, and choosing joy no matter the circumstance. With bouncy basslines, hopeful horns, and a steel drum melody that beams with light, this track is designed to lift spirits and move feet.
While the album Shades of Sunshine is a celebration of diversity in sound — a vibrant journey through Trip-Hop, House, UK Garage, and Jungle. With rich instrumental layers, soulful vocal samples, global percussion, and bold basslines, this is dance music for the mind, body, and soul.
Myriad plans to drop each track from the album will drop weekly over the next 10 weeks.
Angolan artists Satélite and DJ Gali present Raízes, their new collaborative album, on April 24, with a digital release on all platforms and a live event at Duro de Matar in Lisbon.
The album features 28 tracks and includes contributions from artists across three continents, including Afro Wav (Zimbabwe), Boddhi Satva (Central African Republic), Drunky Daniels and Jessica Gaspar (Brazil), Kaysha (France/Congo), Riwo (Nigeria), Sokhana and Lilly Randy (South Africa), as well as artists from the PALOP countries such as Alex Kasion, Edlasio Alves, Melvi, Kelly Gomez, Peter Rodrigues, Danny Boy, and Leriggo.
Raízes completes the trilogy started with Horizonte and Caminho, and marks a new creative phase for the two Angolan producers. The album blends traditional sounds with the electronic pulse of afro house, maintaining a focus on cultural identity and the international potential of the genre.
According to the artists, the record reflects the maturity of a journey that began years ago.
“We’ve arrived at the sound that defines us. It’s like saying: We’ve been here for ten years,” they say. With a more defined and structured approach, Raizes
marks a new chapter in their discography, solidifying collaborations with key figures in the African and Afro-diasporic electronic scene.
For the artists, the album is a statement of Angolan musical identity within the global African electronic music landscape. “Our batucada has a different energy. It brings us peace. And you can feel it within kuduro, afro house, even semba,” explains DJ Satélite, renowned for his pioneering role in the development of modern kuduro.
DJ Satélite, internationally recognized as one of the pioneers of afro house, is behind historic moments in Angolan music, such as producing Estado Maior do Ku-Duro by Lambas (2006) and Batida Única by Bruno M (2007). He has worked with artists like Smal do Arraso, Pai Diesel, Boddhi Satva, Branko, and Cee ElAssaad. His productions are regularly featured in the playlists of DJs like Black Coffee.
DJ Gálio, originally from Cabinda and currently based in Portugal, started out in rap before establishing himself in kuduro and afro house. In 2022, he released Quibuala, an album that positioned him in the international electronic scene, with performances at events like Enchufada, invited by Branko, and releases on labels like Offering Records and Seres Produções.
American singer and songwriter Fabian Starr has announced his sophomore album Prism out May 14th, 2025.
This follows the release of the lead single off the album “Electric Hearts” a summer anthem that captures that magical moment when two people who are meant to be together find their way back to each other.
The production on “Electric Hearts” blends nostalgic retro dance-pop elements with contemporary electronic textures, creating something that feels both delightfully familiar and refreshingly current.
Flushed cheeks usually come in pairs. Your cheeks sync up and fill with pigment, providing non-verbal bodily cues that your body temperature has been spiked by something: nerves, embarrassment, heat, arousal.
Their flush blows your social cover and broadcasts that what you want is near enough to touch.
When only one cheek flushes, this could be the result of a slap, self-administered or coming from someone who mo- mentarily lost their cool.
Or it is not at all about you or your body, but about the eyes of your beholder, affected by a form of myo- pic vision, a shortness of depth that only allows for one cheek to be seen at a time.
It may be just an anomaly, like a body without organs, a film without images, or a song that erases words and, in this way, generates waves of anti-climaxes that come exactly when they’re supposed to, as if according to the grid.
What is there to “pop” in a song that simultaneously has and doesn’t have lyrics, a song that ends before it finds its way to its hypothetical-yet-absent anthemic chorus, a song that while broody and loopy, still worms up into not one, but both of your ears?
These conceptual questions underlie “One Flushed
Cheek,” the newest album from Sadie Siegel, Seth Weiner’s music project and alter ego.
For over a decade now, Sadie Siegel & Seth Weiner have explored the sculptural qualities of sound, thinking of the latter as a tactile expression of material and an architectural act.
“One Flushed Cheek” is a continuation of this practice.
Some of the album’s songs bring the artist’s characteristically fleeting chants and recordings of his domestic life, blended with synthetically generated beats and vocal fragments.
At the same time though, with this new collection of compositions, the artist veers into a distinctly different creative place.
It’s the first album where. Sadie Siegel & Seth Weiner tackle conventional pop song. Structures through a series of simultaneous pushes and pulls, as if both resisting and succumbing to the music genre’s insistence on narrative language.
Sadie Siegel & Seth Weiner do not usually perform their music live, opting instead for creating an immersive, deep-listening ex- perience.
Imagining what form a physical record may take in a post-digital world, this project is set in the presentational form of a multimedia installation, accompanied by the album “give- aways,” i.e. the small, holdable textile sculptures pointing to a digital download of the songs and videos.
Each track has a video made by Rafał Morusiewicz, a visual artist and Weiner’s longtime friend.
The videos function less as a mere illustration of the album’s compositions, and more as an affective call-and-response to the endless creative-listening sessions that both artists had around the ephemeral and sculptural pop songs.
Compulsive and col- lage-based, Morusiewicz’s practice consists in engaging, through editing and digital image-manipulation technologies, with audio- visual material drawn from online-based film archives and shad- ow libraries, and mixing it with original footage, shot in ongoing collaboration with their life partner, Guilherme Maggessi.
The latter is the author of the album’s visual design and the producer of the ex- hibition’s setting, in which the project will be presented.
Weiner, in turn, has expanded the core album by compiling a companion piece, “B-Sides,” a distant cousin to the album, which forms a self-standing record. All these are the core components of “One Flushed Cheek.” Stream One Flushed Cheek
The media agency FunFillage have dropped their collaborative EP, titled” SOS Vol. 1.”
The primary goal of this release is to support and elevate the emerging artists that are a part of it.
With its platform, FunFillage hopes to positively influence artists and brands. The amazing roster of twelve gifted artists for this endeavour is impressive. Seeing such a diverse and cooperative effort come together is amazing.
The project features talented artistes from Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa, which includes Ella Gometi, D-Ennay, Ego, kurntian, Vinn Luka pryce, Adam Srae, Sean Ayce, Chibbs, Hanomalee, Dipcrazy, and Emaxee.
By fusing the idea of sofas with artistic genius, the project aims to revolve around the emotions, comfort, and sentiments that surround the cosmos on a cosy sofa. It also uses the Fun Village platform to highlight the incredible skills in the project.
