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Count To Infinity: Duotrio wants that stay to last forever on Light of My Life

Posted on 14 September 2022

Urging for that spark to precipitate so joyously, like a hot summer’s day at the pool, Duotrio rises through the clouds and wants that romance to be something special and different from the rest on Light of My Life.

Duotrio aka Daniel Nissenbaum is a renowned hip-hop fused Brooklyn, New York-based trumpet player, composer and film scorer who graduated from Berklee College of Music.

”As a trumpet player and recording artist, Daniel has recorded with and/or performed with Donald Byrd, Marcus Miller, Bobby Rydell, Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul, MISIA, Darlene Love, The Drifters, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Mary Wilson (The Supremes), The Marvellettes, The Toys, and The Disco Biscuits.” ~ Daniel Nissenbaum giving us further insight into his impressive career so far (taken from nuttreemusic.com)

Showing us where the love is after so much darkness and rain, Duotrio has presented us with that thrilling amorous adventure that should get you smiling again. Dripping in luscious vocals and loaded with a kiss-filled vibe that shall make any day better, this is a sizzling single for when you just want to let your hair down and have fun.

Light of My Life from Brooklyn, New York-based trumpet player/composer Duotrio is a quick-fire track with a groovy beat, rapid raps and soothing vocals, that shall illuminate your day. This is as romantic as it comes, as those heart-healing words move closer like that first kiss, with that huge beam of hope to set two hearts free.

When you know who you want to be with, you only hope that they feel the same and express their feelings.

Listen up to this new single on Spotify and see more news on Facebook.

Reviewed by Llewelyn Screen

Al STRONG is quite superb on the jazz delight Old Town Diera (feat. Braxton Cook)

Posted on 4 September 2022

On a remarkably wonderful foot-tapping song that will put you in the best of moods, Al STRONG shows us deep inside a timeless place which will cause shivers of joy to form naturally all over your body with Old Town Diera (feat. Braxton Cook).

Al STRONG is a Washington, DC-native and 2x Grammy-nominated trumpet player, composer, recording artist, and educator, who is revered globally as one of the best in the game.

”Known for his creative ability to seamlessly re-imagine existing works like Thelonious Monk’s “Blue Monk” and the classic “My Favorite Things,” Strong aims to challenge the boundaries of music while connecting with his audiences.” ~ Al STRONG giving us deeper insight into his vision and incredible creativity

Simply exquisite at each turn, Al STRONG and Braxton Cook join forces rather sweetly on this heart-healing song that feels like it has been sent from another time altogether. Rich in layers of goodness to hold on securely with, as our fragile souls warm and our smiles widen after so much frown-inducing suffocating pain from the preceding two years on earth.

Old Town Diera from the multi-talented Washington, DC-native Al STRONG is a jazz anthem that has everything you could want in an instrumental soundtrack for modern times. Reminding us what quality music sounds like, as he drenches our thirsty speakers, to soothe all worries away.

Packed with quality throughout and showing the youth what classic music sounds like, this is something so calming your pulse will give you a huge embrace.

Turn up the volume on Spotify and delve deeper inside on the IG.

Reviewed by Llewelyn Screen

Done Paying For The Sins: Scott Cruz urges us to burn this ship and start again on Culture

Posted on 2 September 2022

Following on from his dynamic 2021 release called The Reason, Scott Cruz shows us we can indeed power up brightly and rise again with a better world to save the Culture for the youth of tomorrow.

Scott Cruz is a Palm Springs, California-based multi-talented indie alt-pop solo singer-songwriter, composer, music producer, and metaphysics & psychotherapy expert.

Showing us that a mystical adventure is ready for us if we all want it enough, Scott Cruz leads us into a whole new galaxy that is filled with so much promise and away from current evil. Sung with a sensational edge that might get your heart beating with a more forceful velocity than before, this is an energetic single made with real purpose and heartfelt desire.

Culture from Palm Springs, California-based indie pop solo singer-songwriter/music producer Scott Cruz is a beast-machine-destroying song that will illuminate the skies and get us all thinking about what is really up on another planet. Vocally breathtaking and saturated with inspired lyrics, this experience might get you looking closer at the sky tonight.

Changing the current culture is key to humankind’s survival.

Hear this new single on Spotify and see more via the IG music page.

Reviewed by Llewelyn Screen

Michael Kanyongolo – Dreams: Meet Your New Sonic Sandman

Posted on 17 August 2022

With an ethereally dystopic chill that creeps in straight from the intro, the Brooklyn, NY-residing electronic music producer, Michael Kanyongolo’s latest score, Dreams, constructs a biometrically ambient world you can drift into for a multifaceted sensory experience.

By building his tracks from samples, midi instruments and live playing, his sonic signature became one marked in stylistic fluidity, textural juxtapositions, and otherworldly atmosphere.

The fact that he’s still in college should be enough to make Hans Zimmer shiver with competitive fear. Kanyongolo is so much more than your average ambience peddler; he’s got the tenacity of an acclaimed composer in the making.

Dreams is now available to stream on Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

LA Jazz Scene Icon Sam Hirsh Created Melodic Chemistry with Amber Navran in His Seminal Single, Hot Slow

Posted on 3 August 2022

Taken from his LP, Quarantine Dreams, Sam Hirsh’s standout single, Hot Slow, featuring Amber Navran, is everything it says on the tin. Rather than cooking up a tried, tested, and uninspired blend of soul, Hirsh delivered jazzy melodies which artfully blossom around the smoky – almost trip-hoppy – whispered vocals.

In the LA jazz scene, the pianist, composer and educator is renowned for the soulful energy in his compositions; they are everything people who bemoan ‘they don’t make them like they used to’ could ask for. Better yet, right from the first hit, Hot Slow is smooth enough to melt into. For the same reasons I fell in love with California by Mr Bungle, I will be giving Hot Slow plenty of repeat attention.

Hot Slow is now available to stream on YouTube.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Lydia Li set an otherworldly score in her orchestral composition, Enchanted Forest

Posted on 19 July 2022

From the first note, you’re down the fantastical rabbit hole in Lydia Li’s composition, Enchanted Forest. The LA-based Chinese composer and orchestrator has crafted scores for just about every form of media. But standing alone, the sense of wonder and emotional celebration of imagined celestial ephemera contained in Enchanted Forest is enough to capture your imagination and aid escapism.

Before composing her instrumental orchestral piece, Enchanted Forest, Lydia Li performed and recorded music across the globe. She provided the soundtrack to the Chinese show Bafan Shenyu, which has garnered over 40 million views. Appropriately matched levels of success and talent are rare to find, but notably, Lydia Li’s heartbreakingly astute melodies could never be over-revered. She’s raised the bar right off this stratosphere.

Visit the Enchanted Forest by heading over to Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

LU reminds us about the point of genuine connection with ‘Love Be Tha Key’

Posted on 16 July 2022

Taken off his 14-track album called ‘Keep It Simple‘ (a ukulele joint), LU urge us to join as one and to avoid the noise that can make you give up so easily if you let it break your soul in half on ‘Love Be Tha Key‘.

LU is an Atlanta, Georgia-based indie alternative hip hop music producer, composer, singer-songwriter and rapper who makes those catchy tunes your whole family can enjoy.

”Something to help you enjoy your summer! Every track contains ukulele.” ~ LU

Sending us into a more thoughtful place than before, LU shows us his elevated mindset that has a striking appeal for anyone who likes it conscious to the max. With a pure production that will vibrate through your veins and vocals that shall wake you up, this is a superb song that urges unity.

‘Love Be Tha Key‘ from Atlanta, Georgia-based indie music producer, composer, singer-songwriter and rapper LU leads the way in showing us exactly what humankind needs to focus on when there is so much noise around. Urges us to stop being so desperate and to join as one to solve all the issues in the world-this is a track to play and proud-when you need inspiration.

Life should be about connecting as one so that we can make this planet so much better.

Check out this peaceful track on SoundCloud and see his vibes on IG.

Reviewed by Llewelyn Screen

Minimo Trevize takes us on an incredibly vivid journey with ‘Transmutation’

Posted on 12 July 2022

Taken off the sublime 5-track EP called ‘Side A‘, Minimo Trevize shows us a rare ability to time travel into your awaiting ears with a translucent performance via their fascinating new release ‘Transmutation‘.

Minimo Trevize is a Honolulu, Hawaii-born composer, alternative musician and multi-instrumentalist who fused in various elements of rock, funk, hip-hop, jazz and psychedelic brilliance to remember.

”The first in a two-part release from Minimo Trevize. Side A features dense arrangements and strong grooves. Its a mix of indie-rock, funk, and atmospheric sounds.” ~ Minimo Trevize

With vital help from their passionate indie label Phantasmagram, Minimo Trevize floats our consciousness into warmer climates rather radiantly with a groovy single to take you into a whole new world that shall set you free from any previous pain.

“The interesting elements of my music are often the changes in mood and musical juxtapositions throughout the song. That style can manifest as unusual harmonic content, changes in groove or unorthodox production and mixing techniques. I make music that feels comfortable to me, but I know it often feels outside of any particular genre. The song’s meaning is up to the listener. It tells a specific story about my life as well as being abstract. Hopefully, the music is evocative enough for the listener to create their own meaning as mood morphs throughout the song.” ~ Minimo Trevize

‘Transmutation‘ from the inspired composer, alternative artist and multi-instrumentalist Minimo Trevize is a wondrous gem made with natural fibres that shall inspire you to probably turn this all the way up. There is a harmonious outlook intrenched inside here that will make you close your eyes, and imagine being in a different galaxy altogether.

Music with a timeless aura is the order of the day here, which shall spark the innocent soul inside you.

Listen up on Spotify and see more via the IG music page.

Reviewed by Llewelyn Screen

Elisa Winter – Summer Spent Dreaming: orchestrally apocalyptic post-grunge resonance

Posted on 9 July 2022

While many artists desperately wrestled with their creativity during the first lockdown only to reveal trite lyricism the performer, composer, multi-instrumentalist and baroquely phenomenal recording artist, Elisa Winter foresaw the new normal before the modern plague was on our door.

Finally, her debut album, Summer and Smoke, which was officially released on Summer Solstice 2022, is here to spill orchestrally apocalyptic post-grunge resonance. The LP tracks across the tensions between truth, reality and gaslighting, with the engrossingly stunning highlight, Summer Spent Dreaming.

Lush yet tumultuous. Visceral yet encompassing the detachment we all felt in some capacity, Summer Spent Dreaming is the most authentic aural depiction of the frustration and entropy I’ve heard yet.

Everything changed, in a way it is almost impossible to put in words. I say almost because Elisa Winter discernibly succeeded with “speak to me please, what has happened to you? Searching for you in your eyes, you won’t let me in.” There’s been a disconnect that we’ve kept our heads in the sand about. Thankfully, Elisa Winter is here to vindicate the confusion in our alien relationship with reality and each other.

Elisa Winter’s latest album, Summer and Smoke, is now available to stream via Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

 

Prepare to be torn from passive slumber with Cielo Pordomingo’s orchestral alt-electro feat of world music, Wake Up

Posted on 9 July 2022

Here to tear us from our jaded slumber with her spiritual synthetics is the alt-electro trailblazer, Cielo Pordomingo, with her latest single, Wake Up.

‘Enlivening’ scarcely cuts into the alchemy that the composer, singer, and producer used to reflect her soul in the orchestrally heightened single. It’s Europop meets Depeche Mode via Bond soundtrack with a classical chamber outro; need we say anymore? If we want to do Cielo Pordomingo justice as a lyricist, definitely.

Wake Up is far more than your average cry to people letting their lives pass them by. Pordomingo practically takes you by the hand to guide you through your awakening while addressing the problem of our tendency to waste existence by branding it as just another day. At this point, if she started a cult, I’d jump right into it.

Wake Up is now available to stream on Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast