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This EP is the best version of myself from a rough time period in life. Homebody details the transformation of me going from being an extroverted person to being restricted to my home due to circumstance. I think everyone can relate to some of the messaging of this project, as it’s me at my most vulnerable.
The urgency of this song was mainly triggered by a great loss I suffered not long ago, and it took this form probably as a way to cope with death, but not so much to exorcise it, rather to embrace it, surrender to it. From the start I had some key images in my mind, apparently disconnected and ‘asynchronous’, but intimately bound to one another as part of a greater order, embracing the smallest as well as the biggest and apparently most sophisticated living beings. A ‘quiet’ relationship creating a kind of short circuit in our conscience. After drafting the demo version, I discovered the beautiful work of an English photographer, Annie Spratt, whose pictures of details of autumnal scenes seemed to match with this song perfectly. Musically speaking, I liked the contrast created by the classical instruments (violins and piano) on one side and the warm pad (with its ‘sci-fi-esque’ vibrato) on the other. Before going to the studio for the final version I had the idea of adding sparse percussions, acquiring more and more presence and groove in the final part.
A new Single by RHYME, Dontmesswithjuan, from SONO Music Family. Discover what inspired the artist, the idea and mood that led to this masterpiece.
A new Single by Hallyx, from SONO Music Family. Discover what inspired the artist, the idea and mood that led to this masterpiece.
LeroyBroughtFlowers, a singer/songwriter, is dedicated to crafting tranquil soundscapes that aim to dissolve the boundaries between music genres and vocal approaches. With a multitude of influences spanning across various genres, LeroyBroughtFlowers takes great pride in paying homage to these source
This song represents the inner strength that can sometimes seem faraway, but it’s might just be leading the way. As an image, the character holds a machete and she will be surprised by it taking full control. Sounds of machete form the bed of organic beats and we plunge into a surreal koto journey, created from RHYME’s beautiful koto playing.
This song holds the lyrics of RHYME’s favorite song ‘Tōryanse’, a very iconic old children’s song in Japan. The French and the Japanese lyrics come piercing through, carrying a feminine warrior energy. Will you let it enchant you?
In spring 2021, I faced an emotional breakdown, burdened by the previous 18 months. Seeking therapy, I received an official OCD diagnosis, a suspicion I had carried for most of my life. My focus turned to confronting violent intrusive thoughts, many involving my wife. These thoughts made me fear myself and question the darkness within me. At times, I couldn’t even look at my wife without being overwhelmed by these thoughts (“then my thoughts overcome me, it’s overwhelming to me when I see your face”). Despite wanting closeness during this challenging phase, the early stages of OCD treatment made it incredibly difficult (“You’re what I desire while I’m walking this wire, but my thoughts keep tripping up until they fall”).
Life presents both pushes and pulls—the past propelling us forward, the future beckoning us. Through therapy, I’ve found joy in the pain of my past, as it becomes a driving force. Ultimately, love sustains me through life’s trials, propelling me forward even in the darkest times.
Passato amaro, voglia di riscatto e forza di sacrificio e ciò che continuiamo a vedere nei testi, nelle frasi, e in Nolan; l’artista anche questa volta racconta in modo crudo la veridicità dei fatti nel suo territorio, non elogiando ma appunto parlarne per aprire gli occhi al tutto il mondo, la Sicilia è tanto altro, non solo mafia, ma a quanto pare ancora siamo lontani da questa idea.
Il brano è un banger crudo, senza mezzi termini, punchline si susseguono e creano un mix di grinta che non può far altro che caricarti. Castelvetrano è un posto difficile ma ciò è chiave portante per inseguire i propri sogni.
“Hex” it’s the oldest song of the album. I started strumming it with a guitar at the same I was writing the songs for my first EP. At that time the former USA president was still in charge and I was impressed by his misogynistic and racist speech. That’s when I found the funny rhyme “Hex/T-rex”. I could find similar contempt in other people, who pretend they’re better than others but who need people to dominate, without which they are nothing. I was also considering climate change and how so few people consume so many resources, while nature suffers, temperature raises, and many others are condemned to death and poverty.
That’s why I wrote the “Hex”. When I started producing the song two years later, I arranged it with piano, violin and a Moog Synthesizer, paying hommage to Pj Harvey’s music.
A new Single by Eratra, from SONO Music Family. Discover what inspired the artist, the idea and mood that led to this masterpiece.
Dreamfeeder is a fictional character, “Dream-god”, who gives creative dreams. In the song there’s a plea for dreams, “show me a dream, feed me”, a request for the Dreamfeeder to release creative visions. Dreamfeeder is also a fearsome figure, which can be heard in the drama of the song, as well as the cathartic chorus, when the fears are gone and visions are clear.
A new Single by Gintsugi, from SONO Music Family. Discover what inspired the artist, the idea and mood that led to this masterpiece.
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A new Single by Cadeem LaMarr, from SONO Music Family. Discover what inspired the artist, the idea and mood that led to this masterpiece.
Mixing the feeling of falling in love with the energy of a club setting. I wanted the song to capture the exhilaration you feel when you spot that special someone in a crowd of people, and the way the music amplifies the intensity of the moment. For me, that’s what R&B is all about – capturing the raw emotion of love and infusing it with a sexy, soulful sound.
“Dead Wrong” details a unique but all too common story of an unequal and toxic relationship. I love this song because it plays into the themes of the overarching project. The song drives home the feeling of wishing you never met someone or that you would’ve just stayed in that night. Pete and I actually started this song in winter of 2018 after a wild night out in NYC. I showed him the song on a rooftop bar and he immediately loved it and wrote the whole song in the cab ride home. We were anxious to release it because we thought that people wouldn’t get it, we put it on the back-burner then the pandemic happened. As I was putting this project “Homebody” together I stumbled on this song again and it was a perfect fit, especially since this sound is more popular than ever.
A new Single by Van Elst, from SONO Music Family. Discover what inspired the artist, the idea and mood that led to this masterpiece.
Hallyx wrote the song while she was 100% feeling every word of it. “The feeling of waiting”: waiting for being truly and deeply loved by someone, waiting for being deeply accepted by someone. She was into a hard relationship, and she was feeling so much pain. She was just so disappointed and she started hitting the piano and screaming something so close to what she was feeling… then she started writing the lyrics, and sometimes she was also making fun of the situation, because the pain sometimes can be absurd, tremendously absurd, and you feel like that you are not moving, like in “Waiting for Godot”(Beckett).
Hallyx wrote this song, because she needed a sort of distraction from pain. Falling underground and not understanding a thing because someone is feeding our soul with negative and toxic energies, is not right. Nobody deserve that. The song is a pure love cry, and Hallyx hopes that can be a way out for who’s suffering. Nina Simone said: “You’ve got to learn to leave the table when love’s no longer being served”.
A new EP by Sconforto, from SONO Music Family. Discover what inspired the artist, the idea and mood that led to this masterpiece.
This song was one of the few songs I made during the pandemic, it took me months on end to finish it because I just couldn’t muster the energy to be creative when it felt like my work was crumbling. This is reflected in the lyrics which document my mental state at the time and I think most people can relate to the song in a positive way. I watched myself in real time transform from being active and outside to being restricted to my home and how that changed me. Although the lyrics are heavy the instrumentation is intentionally energetic to communicate the paradox of my current situation. Although I was forced to be a homebody these past few years, I have really been able to connect with myself on a deeper level, and that deserves to be celebrated.
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This song represents the feeling of a panic attack. Basically, I am talking to this feeling as if it was an entity by describing what it does to me and with this process it is getting impersonated. The song helped me to get a better understanding for this feeling as well as helping me to distance myself from it by separating it from myself.
Il quinto singolo di Amberscent è il capitolo più sperimentale dell’album in uscita “Between Strength and Beauty”.
Amberscent sperimenta la fusione tra musica elettronica, musica classica e cinematica in un brano che vuole rappresentare contemporaneamente l’istantanea di un nordico paesaggio in tempesta, metafora delle sue emozioni, e il percorso per arrivarci.
Un brano che descrive qualcosa di istantaneo e determinato, pur essendo costantemente in evoluzione nel suo percorso: non è la prima volta che la musica di Amberscent porta a galla gli aspetti paradossali del tempo. Un solo istante può durare vari minuti quando le emozioni che porta con sé ci trascinano nelle nostre profondità. Come, al contrario, possiamo avere l’impressione che un tempo molto lungo sia passato anche in un solo istante, quando siamo assorti in qualcosa di molto forte.
Familiar Path è uno dei percorsi del tempo che l’artista ha sperimentato su di sé. È la foto istantanea del tempo tempestoso che l’artista subisce in base a certe emozioni, ed è contemporaneamente la delineazione esatta del percorso che attraversa quell’istante per arrivare ad essere ciò che esso stesso è: un istante di 7 minuti, e 7 minuti in un istante.
Amberscent trae ispirazione dalle ultime ricerche sul tempo secondo la meccanica quantistica, aggiungendo il suo tocco personale riguardo alla sua ricerca sulle emozioni e i sentimenti: infatti, oltre che mostrarci il dualismo che caratterizza il Tempo, con Familiar Path vuole mettere in risalto che i percorsi del “nostro tempo” (che lei definisce “tempo emotivo”) ci portano inevitabilmente a dei bivi che abbiamo già visto, a delle emozioni che sono radicate in noi e prendono sempre la stessa direzione, e che ritornano spesso quando facciamo esperienza di qualcosa di familiare. Gli attimi in cui sentiamo che qualcosa ci è familiare, per Amberscent sono i bivi di questo percorso temporale ed emotivo a cui ci troviamo davanti ogni giorno più o meno inconsciamente. E le rarissime volte che ne siamo consci, questi bivi li chiamiamo “Déjà vu”.
In altre parole ancora quindi, Familiar Path può definirsi il tentativo di Amberscent di descrivere una delle anatomie possibili del Déjà vu.
The song Water explores the feeling of the weight of life being lifted by the support of water. It explores an introverted journey with the self in communion with nature. Oneself feeling the beneficial effect of nature, accepting it. It was made by stretching some modular sounds created by Dontmesswithjuan herself, glitching some foley sounds into a dancey beat and creating a vocal melody to transport you inward.
Era un periodo in cui stavo benissimo, ero finalmente riuscito ad andare avanti dopo una rottura sentimentale, fino a quando per una settimana non mi ha funzionato il bluetooth della macchina. Questa cosa all’inizio sembrava anche essere positiva, in quanto potevo ascoltare nuove canzoni e informarmi sulle notizie del giorno, ma già al terzo giorno ero stanco volevo di nuovo la mia musica. Durante il quarto giorno di questo inferno da un momento all’altro si riconnette il telefono alla macchina, e con un sorriso a 32 denti attivo la musica, e come prima canzone parte un brano che avevo salvato un anno prima, quella canzone che eravamo soliti urlare nel traffico di Roma, quella canzone cosi tanto bella, che mi avevi portato ad odiare. Cosi percependo questa sensazione penso che sarebbe stato un bel tema da trattare in un brano.
Moments is the second single of Ladylucci’s solo project, after her debut single ‘Different’. The song was written during the pandemic lockdown in 2020, when our individual freedom was taken away and we had a lot of time to spend on our own, think and be introspective. Inspired by that, the song wants to explore the concept of freedom, which can be found in everyday moments of life and simple things like partying, dancing and laughing. It wants to send the message that we truly experience life when we feel free, with freedom being our purpose and our destination in our life path. The HipHop/Trap beat and the sonorities of the song are inspired by 2000s RnB music, as well as the stylistic choices and moodboard of the visuals, inspired by Missy Elliott’s music videos, where choreographies were a key part of the song.
Il quarto singolo apre uno dei capitoli più difficili dell’album in uscita “Between Strength and Beauty”, ed è rivolto al delicatissimo tema della salute mentale.
The Real Things ci dimostra che è possibile tuffarsi negli abissi inesplorati dei nostri sentimenti e del nostro inconscio senza soccombere, ma tornando in superficie con qualcosa in più.
Il brano è un monologo dell’artista verso una bambina che è appena riuscita a compiere proprio questa impresa. Essere consapevoli di sé, sapere chi siamo e cosa vogliamo, è sempre stato secondo Amberscent uno dei più importanti “doveri” che abbiamo come esseri umani. E, d’altronde forse il più difficile.
Con questo brano Amberscent vuole celebrare la rinascita di chi, come lei in passato, ha faticato molto per riappropriarsi dei propri pensieri e sentimenti, e quindi della propria persona.
Viviamo in un mondo che riesce ad essere molto opprimente, e secondo l’artista sono più le persone che vivono governate dalla paura che quelle che vivono mosse dal motore dell’amore e del coraggio.
E anche se entrare nelle profondità abissali della nostra mente può essere molto rischioso – l’artista si riferisce specialmente a tutto ciò che viene definito patologia mentale, e purtroppo ancora troppo spesso etichettato in modo dispregiativo – tuttavia in alcuni casi può essere l’unica vera ancora di salvezza.
In questo brano Amberscent vuole fungere da testimonianza vivente che si può risalire in superficie dopo aver toccato la sabbia del fondale della nostra mente, ed è convinta che poter raccontare come sono fatti quei rarissimi granelli sia qualcosa che ha un valore inestimabile per le persone, soprattutto per chi sta affrontando questo tipo di sofferenza.
Il messaggio di Amberscent quindi non è solo rivolto alla bambina, ma si estende a tutti quelli che si trovano tra il fondale e la superficie, e che si sentono inevitabilmente persi tra due cose che in quel momento non sembrano reali, ma che insieme costituiscono proprio la nostra realtà.
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SONO Music announces Praise, the new Single by MELFI
A new Single by MELFI, from SONO Music Family. Discover what inspired the artist, the idea and mood that led to this masterpiece.
MELFI – Praise
MELFI: ‘Praise’ has a special place in my heart because I never felt ready for it to be over. It took over 2 years to fully develop and went through so many evolutions and tones and sounds before I felt that it was ready to be the most it could be. When I first showed Moses the barebones mix back in October of 2022, I told him the title and he said, “Oh bet I know exactly what to do” and within three weeks he had written all the verses and choruses. His lyrics expertly accented the vibe of the track I was going for and leveled it up beyond what I originally showed him; so, I had to 1-up or AT LEAST match his energy with the production. So continued the sound design journey that I’ve always been on, always trying to get it to sound that much better, more dynamic, more momentous. I wanted there to be a lot of room to get lost in. We’ve always loved being able to listen back to a song over and over and discover new elements about it, so we tried our best to implement that here. One day I had finally done it, after two years of us growing together as friends and artists, after the first version was even referenced, the song was finished. The scope and power of the song to me is perfect as it is, and I know we’ll look back and say that this song was huge milestone indemnifying our progress.”
Moses: “‘Praise’ is not the first time I worked with MELFI (and will not be the last) but marks the first time we poured ourselves into a track together. I usually don’t like songwriting based around the name of a demo beat, but what MELFI produced and allowed me to expand on is truly the EDM representation of praise, even at that first session. “Feel your praise, feel my praise, feel our praise” kept repeating in my head. I took what we created home, and the lyric writing process just flowed.
After some time, MELFI revamped the original instrumental and created this magical space. Crossing a 90’s Hip-Hop drum bounce with the lush textures and sensational sound design elevated ‘Praise’ to new heights. We want everyone who listens to temporarily drift into our world. We want you to “let go and just be who you are.” We believe we are all worth ‘Praise.’
The Score, the new Single by V of 40M
Join the 40M Movement and Experience the Power of V's Music with his Latest Track, 'The Score'" Pitt Co., NC, United States Release Date: 2024-02-29Check out The Score here: https://song.link/us/i/1728907675Revolutionary
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