Even though she was born in London, England, Nubya Garcia has always kept her ears open for South American production, especially jazz. Daughter of a Trinitarian father and Guyanese mother, the British saxophonist and composer made precisely this relationship with Latin music a prominent element in the brand new English scene, narrowing the relationship with important names that have emerged over the last decade, such as Ezra Collective and Makaya McCraven. However, in addition to the dialogue ... read more
Definitely, Samia Finnerty could not have thought of a better title for the first solo album: The Baby (2020, Grand Jury). Conceived over a period of a few months, the record produced and recorded in partnership with Caleb Hinz, Jake Luppen, Nathan Stocker and Lars Stalfors, shows the effort of the New York singer and songwriter to meet creatively. Songs that reflect the constant sensation of displacement of the lyrical self, sustain in the verses the vulnerability of the artist and reveal ... read more
In Future Nostalgia (2020), Dua Lipa's great success lies in the ability of the singer and her studio partners to achieve a balance between the confessed reference to pop of the 1970s / 1980s and the consolidation of her own identity. Compositions that dialogue with the essence of veterans of pop music, such as Kylie Minogue, Blondie and Madonna, but that at no time break with the material presented years before, during the production of the namesake debut that revealed tracks like New Rules ... read more
Even though she left Iran when she was just five, Sevdaliza never hid her enormous fascination with her own family history and heritage. In fact, since the beginning of her career, when she presented the clips of Human and Shahmaran, it was using elements of Persian culture that the singer and songwriter residing in Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, won the public's attention. A mix of rescue and fine reinterpretation, a concept naturally reinforced in much of the material presented in Ison ... read more
Dream and reality are confused at all times in the songs of Inner Song (2020, Smalltown Supersound). Second and most recent studio work by British singer, songwriter and producer Kelly Lee Owens, the successor of the eponymous debut delivered three years ago reaches a balance between the tracks and the contemplative side of the original artist from Rhuddlan, in Wales. They are compositions that preserve the ethereal essence detailed in songs like CBM, Anxi. and Keep Walking, however, starting ... read more