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Sigrun

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Hello from Berlin! I love freedom, travelling, long train rides, Stefan Zweig books, cats, colours, writing postcards, music, and movies à la Woody Allen and Wes Anderson. What makes me really happy is the seaside, sunrises and sunsets and having lots of time!
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“Love, Obviously.” On Home, Dreams and ‘City of Gold’ with Kid Francescoli

Some beautiful things simply happen in the moment. They come together naturally, almost as if they were always meant to belong to each other. That is the feeling surrounding the latest track by Kid Francescoli, who teamed up with Nigerian artist DEMIGOD for the wonderful City of Gold. And honestly, this song doesn’t need many explanations. It’s a fusion of everything that feels beautiful — the beat, the warmth, the vocals, and that beautiful touch of nostalgia that reminds you once again that music is something that can reach much deeper.
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“I Give Energy, and I Get It Right Back” — A Conversation with Jowi

hile recharging at her home in Lugano after a long and intense tour, and enjoying some quieter moments surrounded by the beauty outside her window, we caught up with DJ and producer Jowi. And trust us — with this whirlwind of energy, there is a lot to talk about. Let’s start with the music. Jowi has just released her new solo track ‘Submerged’ on KRAWALL Records, the label she co-founded with Jazzy and Zatox. Blending hard techno with gabber influences, the track carries the kind of energy that is hard to resist.
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Sebastian Plano – the places we carry within us

There are people who travel to discover the world, and there are those who travel to discover themselves. For Grammy Award-nominated Argentine composer and cellist Sebastian Plano, the two have always been inseparable. At seventeen, he left his hometown of Rosario carrying little more than a cello and a growing curiosity about what might exist beyond the horizon. What followed was a journey that would take him across continents and cultures – from the Adriatic coast of Italy to Lisbon, Boston, San Francisco and Berlin, before eventually bringing him back to northern Italy. Along the way, he accumulated more than memories.
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Beneath the surface – Lazarusman on Skin, humanity and shared experiences

“Life in itself is a series of shared experiences.” Some albums arrive with answers. Others arrive with questions. Skin, the long-awaited album from South African spoken-word artist Lazarusman, belongs to the latter. Listening to it feels less like moving through a collection of tracks and more like sitting down with someone who is willing to share the thoughts that usually remain unspoken. Beneath its reflections on identity and belonging lies something surprisingly simple: a deep sense of humanity, carried by love, compassion, and a warmth that runs through every line of the record.
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Between Worlds: Martin Kohlstedt on Kluft, Connection and Feelings

“There’s a deep desire in me for people to reconnect, to share paths, to seek answers together even when they’re not yet visible. The album is a response to that – invisible, deeply human – and I think it will take me a year before I can fully put into words what it means,” tells us Martin Kohlstedt about his new album Kluft, which is out on May 22nd.
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Premiere: Fleur Bleu·e on “All the Little Beings” and the feeling behind a place

“When you never fully belong, you become an outsider. You observe more than you participate,” says singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Delphine Lucy Lam. “There is a kind of freedom in that, but you also lack something essential, like community or a sense of grounding… so you create something out of it, through a careful balance between pragmatic observation and daydreaming.” These feelings might be familiar to many – they definitely are to me.
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Sofiane Pamart – MOVIE, A World Composed in Emotion

Diving into the music of Sofiane Pamart feels like stepping into a journey through all the emotions we experience, are meant to experience, and inevitably will experience as human beings. The French artist is a true master of the piano – someone who creates entire worlds through sound, and now invites us into his fourth studio album, MOVIE. “I often receive proposals to compose for films, but I wanted this album to be my own movie,” he explains. Here, music, fashion, and storytelling transform into a firework of fantasy, beauty, and emotion.
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Shakira in Madrid and the Magic of Record-Breaking Nights

A female artist who never stopped moving. It was her indescribable power, her signature cool style, that unmistakable voice with so many different nuances, and the most incredible dance moves I had ever seen – all of which completely fascinated me when I first saw Shakira on MTV. I think there’s hardly anyone left in the world who doesn’t know her signature dance style, inspired by her Lebanese roots, full of hip movements and elements of belly dance.
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Falling in Love with Elder Island’s First Love Song ‘Snapshot’

“This time around we wanted the work to feel light, free and joyous, make quicker decisions, not get bogged down in details, you can really only achieve this by keeping things simple.” Katy tells us about their more stripped-back songwriting process for the forthcoming third album Hello Baby Okay, which, in contrast to the last album Swimming Static – very studio-focused and meticulously layered – emerged from free-flowing jam sessions.
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Between Melancholy and Lightness – A talk with girlpuppy

There’s a softness to girlpuppy — both in her voice and the way she looks at the world. Her songs capture fleeting emotions with disarming honesty, floating somewhere between melancholy and lightness. With her latest album Sweetness, she continues to explore love, growth, and all the fragile beauty that comes with becoming yourself.
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“Wicker Woman was my return to myself” — Freya Ridings on Power, Vulnerability, and Reclaiming Her Core

“Wicker Woman for me was a return, a reclaiming and trying to embody the empowered feminine that I saw around me growing up from my mother and my grandmothers. I saw fiercely independent, beautiful, fiery, funny, strong women, and I think for me I felt in myself — especially over the last sort of few years — a kind of weakening and a people-pleasing that was really frustrating to me. And especially with making music, you can’t really come from that mindset,” Freya Ridings tells me the inspiring and very personal story behind her latest, magnificent song Wicker Woman — a hymn to reclaiming the original feminine force, written by Freya and recorded with Jennifer Decilveo at Beach Tree Sound Studio in LA.
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Between Water and Words — Elinborg Releases “Blood”

The summer days are fading, and the darker season draws us into quieter hours — a time of year when music often carries more depth. Today, Faroese artist Elinborg releases her new single “Blood” via Embassy of Music, a deeply personal song written about the loss of her father. Originally part of her debut album Í Ævir (“Forever”) and sung in Faroese, the track now appears in English for the first time, allowing a wider audience to step into its emotional world.
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An Invitation to Slow Down and Listen Closely: Stavroz Return With Take a Seat

With Take a Seat, Belgian quartet Stavroz return with their most focused and free work yet. The 14-track album drifts through dusty deserts and humid cities, all while holding onto the warm, acoustic-meets-electronic sound that defines the band. Written partly on the road and finished together in a countryside studio, the record carries both the movement of travel and the calm of retreat.
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In Conversation with Monolink on “The Beauty Of It All”

“It was a journey of rediscovering the joy of making music within myself,” Monolink tells us — a feeling that runs through the whole album. Written in retreat, surrounded by stillness and nature, The Beauty Of It All is perhaps his most personal work to date, moving between acoustic fragments, pulsing electronics, and moments of breathtaking fragility.